"Reader, when at the big hotels, call for the dish on the bill of fare called, ‘fillet de bouf et pommes de terre hachis a l’Hibernais,’ and you will get the hash of the kind known to the unlearned as ‘Irish stew,’” wrote The Oregonian in 1870. Somehow the French version doesn’t sound as tasty as the Irish one. This Irish dish, however, only appeared as a novelty; it was not as frequent out West as was chicken fricassee or roasted venison. As with most immigrants, the Irish bro

March 2013
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- Are These Arizona Rangers?
- Did Indians Really Whoop and Holler When they Attacked, or is that Just Something in the Westerns?
- What is the historical significance of Arizona’s Sierra Estrellas?
- Festival of Books
- Give Me a Homestead
- Picture-Perfect Custer
- What is the Treaty of Hard Labor?
- Wet Your Whistle at These Historic Saloons
- Red Hot Chili Weapon
- The Gentleman Vigilante
- Candy Moulton
- Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle?
- March 2013 Events
- Did Old West cowboys ever use a two-handed grip to fire their handguns?
- Canyon, Texas
- Billie Bierer’s Buffalo soldier Reads
- Dragoons in Apacheland
- Gunfighter in Gotham
- Texas Dames
- Something Big
- Honoring Elmore
- Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
- The Irish Influence
- Surviving in Tucson…
- On Wild Bunch Time
- Frank Butler
- The Yankee “Sixteen Shooter”
- The Elusive Outlaw
- Back in the Badlands
- The Arizona Rangers