title: The Arbuckle Cafe: Classic Cowboy Stories
author: V. S. Fitzpatrick
description: Even though I grew up in the cattle country of northwest Colorado, it wasn't until just a few years ago that I had my first sip of Arbuckles' Coffee, the original "buckaroo brew." After a mellow day of trail riding, we'd decided to kick back around the campfire for a spell, warm-up some canned beans, and see who could spin the best yarn. This turned out to be an appropriate setting for learning about the java that "won the West."
zlib_text: Argosy, March, 1912 
    
   
   
   
   
  Y friend from the West and I were 
  dining in a cafe with a Parisian name 
  on Thirty-something Street, just east 
  of Broadway. His stylishly cut hair 
  and evening clothes, smooth-shaven face, and 
  quiet manners were far from suggesting the 
  cowboy. A dark coat of tan was the only thing 
  to distinguish him from the typical man-about-
  New York. 
  He did not lay a big six-shooter on the 
  table in front of him, nor shout at the waiter in a 
  voice which startled the other diners. Neither 
  did he ask for ham and eggs and a quart of 
  coffee. 
  If we had been dining with a couple of 
  fascinating, fastidious and hungry chorus ladies, 
  his order need not have been changed. It was 
  perfect—from cocktails to cordials. The faithful 
  Albert, biggest, quietest, and most efficient of 
  head-waiters, saw to it that we were well served, 
  for my cowboy friend was very particular. 
  A little incident, which probably could 
  occur in no other American city, and which 
  would have s