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"I forgot to mention Frank Hamer and my thoughts; Frank did the right thing in at least every recorded instance. Bonny and Clyde? The only way it could and should have been done. Not allowing them their constitutional rights? Hundreds of eye…"

"There were a few, among a bunch of psychopaths and sociopaths, who had redeaming qualities. I believe The Kids was one, was forced into a bad situation by a triad of psycos and socios in power. Yes, he made some attempts to clear that, but…"

"Here is a photo of Bass Reeves wearing his hat from the blackamericaweb.com site, and a photo of a miniature of the Bass Reeves memorial statue, Ft. Smith Arkansas (I don't know if it is up yet) sculpted by Harold T. Holder. Is the statue…"

"I can confirm that Texas ranger Frank Hamer had crazy eyes. A few years ago, I was looking for Hamer's tombstone in Austin Memorial Cemetery and was having trouble finding it. An old man that was visiting his wife's grave asked me who…"

" Small beer/ale which is beer/ale with little to no alcohol was invented back in medieval days, and near/light beer which does have traces of alcohol was big in the prohibition days. Bevo was Anheuser-Busch’s top seller."

"You'd figure that when non alcoholic beer became available that they would use it and non alcoholic champagne and wine and such would be used.  As for whiskey and tequila most dark and light creme sodas could pass off for it."

"Thanks much for this info. Always looking for good reading material online."

"If y;o're interested in the facts of the Thornton murder & the death of Bill Carver, go to frontiertales.com.  It's an on-line Western short-story magazine that also carries factual articles.  The Thornton murder case is in…"

"Its funny. Been watching A LOT of Gunsmoke lately and now I notice that every time one of them goes to drink a beer they either get distracted by something and never actually drink any or they take a small sip and then get distracted lol. Could be…"

"Well I have watched so many, but the one I fell in to a trance watching was Lonesome Dove. Could never get enough of this LONG movie."

"Thanks for all the replies. Least I now know what their drinking. A variety of things it would appear, but the clear winner seems to be Tea and Apple Juice."

"  I was in a production where our beer was apple juice with a healthy admixture of baking soda!Blooey!!Iwould rather have suffered warm near beer.There is a very interesting anecdote shared by W.C.Fields' nephew.Fields cordially disliked…"

"Strong tea has nearly always been used for whiskey, both in films & on stage.  A lot of the 'beer' is sparkling white grape juice that has been shaken to produce a head, with yellow food coloring added.  Near Beer is another…"

"Ok thanks Caed. I was pretty certain I would have troubles getting in to this with the age of this computer, plan to get a new one soon, and the video card not being able to support it.  Once I am sitting behind a new computer I will jump in to…"

"LOL. I bet it was. Coffee sounds about right for the Whiskey due to the dark color. Apple Juice is interesting. Always thought of tea but coffee and apple juice never crossed my mind. Were the same things used for the early westerns as well? Thanks…"

"Tea, coffe and apple juice are used for the heavy stuff, and in most cases they used hot beer, usually near beer. It's not very tasty and you don't have to worry about the cast and crew wanting to drink it much.   On Tombstone you can…"