Western saloon
Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen, lawmen, outlaws, miners, and gamblers.
With a growing overcapacity, breweries began to adopt the British "tied-house" system of control where they owned saloons outright.
Schlitz Brewing Company and a few others built elaborate saloons to attract customers and advertise their beers.
The League lobbied at all levels of government for legislation to prohibit the manufacture or import of spirits, beer and wine.
Ministers had launched several efforts to close Arizona saloons after the 1906 creation of League chapters in Yuma, Tucson, and Phoenix.
[4] The saloon-keeper relied on the expectation that most customers would buy more than one drink, and that the practice would build patronage for other times of day.
[5] Further in the American West, some sold liquor from wagons, and saloons were often formed of materials at hand, including "sod houses.
The Irish preferred stand-up bars where whiskey was the drink of choice and women could obtain service only through the back door.
German saloons were more brightly illuminated, more likely to serve restaurant food and beer at tables, and more oriented toward family patronage.
When a town was first founded, the initial saloons were often nothing more than tents or shacks that served homemade whiskey that included such ingredients as "raw alcohol, burnt sugar and chewing tobacco".
As towns grew, saloons were often elaborately decorated, featured Bohemian stemware, and oil paintings were hung from the wall.
The marshal at the time, Wild Bill Hickok, threatened to burn the saloon to the ground if the offending animal was not painted over.
[6] Wild Bill, also a professional lawman, gunfighter, and gambler, was later killed on August 2, 1876, by Jack McCall, who shot him in the back of the head, in Saloon No.
Former lawman, faro dealer, and gambler Wyatt Earp worked in or owned several saloons during his lifetime, outright or in partnership with others.
[7]: 41 Wyatt invited his friend, lawman and gambler Bat Masterson, to Tombstone to help him run the faro tables in the Oriental Saloon.
In 1884, after leaving Tombstone, Wyatt and his wife Josie, Warren, James and Bessie Earp went to Eagle City, Idaho, another boom town.
[9] In 1885, Earp and Josie moved to San Diego where the railroad was about to arrive and a real estate boom was underway.
[10] Between 1887 and around 1896 he bought three saloons and gambling halls, one on Fourth Street and the other two near Sixth and E, all in the "respectable" part of town.
