This is for history homework. I need a web site, or just an answer. The entertainment in Dodge City was back in the 1800's.
2007-01-23 18:46:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
During those first years (1870's) the population varied according to the season, swelling during the summer with the influx of cowboys, cattle buyers, gamblers and prostitutes. Business houses, dance halls and saloons catered to the Texas trade. Saloon keepers renamed their places, Alamo and Lone Star and served brandies, liqueurs and the latest mixed drinks. Ice usually was available so even beer could be served cold. Some saloons advertised anchovies and Russian caviar on their cold menus. Gambling ranged from a game of five-cent "Chuck-aluck" to thousand dollar poker pots. Many saloons offered some type of musical entertainment - a piano player, a singer, or as in Chalk Beeson's Long Branch, a five-piece orchestra. Beeson also organized and led the famous Cow Boy Band (sic) that entertained all over the west at cattlemen's conventions, concerts, dances and in Washington, D.C. at the inauguration of President Harrison.
2007-01-23 18:56:04 · answer #1 · answered by Daffster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-23 16:03:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ms. Kitty's saloon, not serious... Off old show, Gunsmoke
bull riding
rodeos
gambling
2007-01-23 18:57:09 · answer #3 · answered by Mary D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Buffalo hunting. Gambling. Carousing.
2007-01-23 18:54:58 · answer #4 · answered by PartyTime 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
saloons
2007-01-23 18:49:48 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I was curious about this as well
2016-08-09 00:50:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋