Day 249 - a book rec

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I had to run to the library this afternoon, and while I was there, I came across a couple of books that I couldn't - well, not walk out with.  I've spent the last little while reading a chapter in a book called "What They Didn't Teach You About the Wild West" by Mike Wright. It's an interesting book - not an academic book, in that he doesn't use nearly enough footnotes to make me comfortable, but he does have some interesting anecdotal stuff.  Like this, in the chapter title "The Cowboys':

"So-called tailor-made cigarettes - that is, ready-made prerolled ones - were available even before the Civil War, but more so than the roll-your-own variety, they were considered wicked.  Certainly, sissified and unmanly.  It wasn't until the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, where they were extravagantly displayed and promoted, that ready-made cigarettes really got going in America." (p. 49)

So - does this mean Chris rolled his own cigarillos?  More interestingly, did he carry around, " . . . granulated tobacco in a small muslin sack(s) with a round tag dangling on the sack's drawstring.  At one time the sack of tobacco carried a packet of brown "roll your own" papers attached.  John Green [the man who marketed this convenience] lived near Durham's Station, North Carolina, but took his trademark bull picture from England's Durham's mustard.  Later, Green sold out to a onetime partner, William Blackwell, who reputedly paid just five hundred dollars for the Buill Durham trademark.  The product continues as Bull Durham today, although the full-view, anatomically correct picture of the bull is not longer around to shock puritanical ladies as it did in the days of the Wild West." (p. 49)

Anatomically correct bull.  Huh. Is that why Buck calls him 'Stud'?