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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: the beer blog :: There's a "Bud" in my future
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| Jeriatric |
Wyatt Earp was assistant town marshall in Dodge City in 1876. My great grandfather arrived in Windom, Minnesota, from Melbourne, England in 1876. Wyatt almost certainly enjoyed a beer in the Long Branch as it was the most popular saloon in town. In later years he visited Melbourne, today a village of about 4,000 people, in search of his roots. This summer I will be making my second trip to Melbourne, in search of my roots. I will be speaking before a couple hundred cousins and I want to be able to say I have something in common with Wyatt Earp (besides my fast draw). So far, it will be the Long Branch, Melbourne and the mustache I had when I was younger. Also, a Dunnicliff woman married an Earp man, in Melbourne, back in the 1700s. Wyatt and I may be distant cousins. Anyway, I can handle another Budweiser. Sometimes that is all that is available. At my 50th HS reunion there were only Bud and Coors. It was hot, I was thirsty and I had already paid for the drinks as part of the price to attend. And....sometimes you know the good by having an acquaintance with the bad. |