As early as 1839, Sacramento, California, was home to one ofthe most enduring symbols of the American West: the saloon. From theportability of the Stinking Tent to the Gold Rush favorite El Dorado GamblingSaloon to the venerable Sutter's Fort, Sacramento saloons offered not simply anip of whiskey and a round of monte but also operated as polling place, museum,political hothouse, vigilante court and site of some of the nineteenthcentury's worst violence. From librarian James Scott and the SpecialCollections of the Sacramento Public Library comes a fascinating history of Sacramentosaloons featuring the advent of all types of gaming, the rise of local alcoholproduction and the color and guile of some of the region's most compellingpersonalities.
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