In praise of the storied Gold Rush saloons of America’s West

Over in the continental US, in Groveland, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Yosemite National Park, the memory of violence lingers at the Iron Door Saloon, with its granite walls, swinging cast-iron doors, walls adorned with taxidermy, and ceiling of hanging dollar bills. Saloons were “rough and tumble”, says Iron Door […]