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Don’t Even Talk to a Cookie Until He’s Made You Coffee

We talked to Chuck Wagon expert, Lynn Shackleford about a staple of the West: Coffee.

They say that it’s not real cowboy coffee if you can’t float a horseshoe in it. We skipped that test due to food preparation guidelines, but the coffee looked pretty stout.

Here are some cool coffee fun facts. But as Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art always says, “Cowboy coffee is only served warm or hot. Never cool.

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