CHAPTER 10

The whiskey mills of Tombstone back in 1880 were something to behold. No doubt the most opulent of all was the Crystal Palace Saloon at the corner of Fifth and Allen Streets. And that was where Charley and I headed.

We ordered beer and the Crystal Palace, which was formerly called the Eagle Brewery, had plenty of cool beer on hand—a rarity in the days before electric refrigeration. Beer was stored in an ice house behind the saloon, and the ice was transported to town in special "ice wagons" that carried it the twenty miles from Benson where the Southern Pacific Railroad stopped with specially insulated refrigeration cars.

Just across Fifth was the Oriental Sa...

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