What information do you have on that old cowboy staple, coffee?
Cindy Smith
Cartersville, Georgia
Long before Gunsmoke’s Matt Dillon, Chester Goode and Miss Kitty wrapped their hands around a warm cup, coffee was a virtual necessity on the frontier.
In 1849, while surveying a military route through the Southwest, Lt. William Whiting noted in his journal that coffee was the “great essential in prairie bill of fare.”
The Plains Indians loved coffee, and enterprising whites took
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