In several Old West saloon photos, a sign hangs over a door near the bar signifying “Club Room.” What is a Club Room? Glen Jones Rogers, Arkansas A club room was a saloon, but it could also be a social room in the establishment where political meetings or other gatherings were held. In the early days of Flagstaff, Arizona, the town had a saloon called the “San Juan Sample and Club Room.”
March 2010
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Overnight Success When Hauling
- Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains
- The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783-1900
- Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870-1890
- A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn—the Last Great Battle of the American West
- How Hollywood Saved the Durango & Silverton
- Custer Survivor
- The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History
- Yahsi Bati
- Sweetgrass
- Gunless
- Laurie’s Wild West
- On the Set of The Gundown
More In This Issue
- McKinney Meets His Maker
- Cherokee Nation’s Tahlequah, Oklahoma
- What is a Club Room?
- What was the make of revolver used by Clint Eastwood in Pale Rider?
- Do you believe the story that Jesse James met Billy the Kid in 1879?
- What was a typical breakfast in the Old West?
- What can you tell me about Canyon Diablo, Arizona?
- How common was locoweed poisoning in the Old West?
- Jeff Hildebrandt
- Living Like the Boggs
- A Grave Matter for Mattie Earp
- The Russian River’s Redwoods
- The Sharpshooter’s Choice
- The Pony Rides Again, 150 Years Later
- Sacred Ground
- Sawbones, Literally
- Sunday Dinner
- Sons of the Pioneers Spice Up Music Auction
- Surviving Festival of the West
- Horse Romance