[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Two years ago ? Tell me again whos keeping the masses seperated why is there such a great divide in the different races of our great Country ?

Seems to me that reporting something like this would bring people together we need more reporting of what Black Americans did to contribute to the wealth of our country weather large or small Im tired of being seperated from other Americans just because of my skin color or thiers !

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

	PUNK PING.©

[JennysCool]

I'm a very good friend of the woman who ran this dig! Thank you for the post -- it's a great project!

[Qwinn]

Thought you might be interested in this.

Qwinn

[Servant of the 9]

One of the most remarkable discoveries was a 130-year-old bottle of Tabasco. Reconstructed from 31 shards of glass, it is now officially the oldest style of Tabasco bottle known to exist. Historians speculate that the Boston Saloon was among the first eateries to introduce Tabasco.

But the greatest find of all isn't as tangible as these artifacts.

Nonsense, how could anything be more important than the history of Tabasco Sauce?

So9

[Servant of the 9]

Tobasco Sauce PING!!

So9

[EggsAckley]

gold rush ping

[Mike Darancette]

Maybe the wild west wasn't so wild!

Hey, if you made it big at the diggings you sure wouldn't want to eat bad food on a dirt floor.

[THX 1138]

We need to track down William A. G. Brown's decendants. No reparations for them.

[Congressman Billybob]

It is also true that 25% of the US Cavalry, charged with maintaining the peace on the frontier, were blacks. It is also true that a substantial number of the settlers who were homesteaders, and of the cowboys who worked the ranches, were blacks. Ancient photographs from the West show these facts.

And the American West was perhaps the greatest meritocracy ever known on these shores. If you could do there the task you had set for yourself, you would survive and thrive, regardless of who you were or where you came from. If you could not do that, a swift and painful death from any of a variety of causes would be your fate.

Thank you for putting up this very interesting post.

Congressman Billybob

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[JockoManning]

Glad you posted this. thanks

[Lijahsbubbe]

Fun article!

[Godebert]

"The Tabasco bottle is particularly intriguing because of what it implies about African-American cuisine and the development of the West," Kelly Dixon, administrator of the Comstock Archaeology Center who supervised the dig, told AP. "This was an exotic product, and Comstock African-Americans were apparently the ones breaking this new ground."

Wow...I guess they'll need to re-write all the American history books to reflect this important new discovery.

[Capt. Tom]

Massachusetts native William A. G. Brown opened the Boston Saloon to serve Virginia City's African American community, which numbered fewer than 100 people in the mid-1860s.

Local newspapers often mentioned the Boston Saloon, noting its popularity in the African American community. Brown, a prominent Virginia City businessman and landowner, welcomed African Americans at his establishment until it closed in 1875.

In October of that year, the Great Fire swept through Virginia City, destroying the Boston Saloon along with hundreds of buildings in its path.

[jaz.357]

HOT STUFF!

[Old Professer]

It's been 15 years since I've been in Virginia City; that's a really neat place; must've been a long ride over and down the mountain for the Cartwrights. (Why would the Cartwrights raise cattle instead of building wagons?)

[Luis Gonzalez]

BUMP

[mhking]

Black conservative ping

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[Wonder Warthog]

"The Tabasco bottle is particularly intriguing because of what it implies about African-American cuisine and the development of the West," Kelly Dixon, administrator of the Comstock Archaeology Center who supervised the dig, told AP. "This was an exotic product, and Comstock African-Americans were apparently the ones breaking this new ground."

And what makes Kelly Dixon so sure it was "African-Americans". I suspect it far more likely to have been some New Orleans Creole gambler types. Heck, for all this twit knows, the chef at the Boston Saloon might have been a Cajun.

[boop]

Fascinating discovery! I wish I could see some photos of the excavation.

[WaterDragon]

The discovery is significant because the saloon was owned by a black man. This should return some pride to blacks today who've been told blacks either never accomplished anything or that they were the ones who accomplished everything. In fact, they were Americans, while both slave and free, and were part of the innovation and entrepreneurship for which Americans are are appropriately famous.