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History: Whiskey played a big part
The mountain mining town of Pioche, Nevada, was one of the toughest places in all of the old west. In the early 1870s, the six-gun was the only law, and it spoke often. Miners, desperados, deserters from the army, Chinese laborers, a few escaped fugitives and would-be or real gunfighters were known to frequent the […]