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Notes
1. All translations in this essay are taken from the forthcoming book: Cecilia Urbina, On a Tuesday Like Today (San Antonio. Wings Press. 2008).
2. “Sanford Meisner,” The Sanford Meisner Center. 9 Sept. 2007. http://www.themeisnercenter.com/meisnerBio.html.
3. According to the article “Saloons of the Old West,” the first drinking establishment to be called a saloon was in Brown’s Hole near the Wyoming-Colorado-Utah border in 1822. Kathy Weiser, Legends of America. July 2004, 7 July 2007. http://www.legendsofamerica.com/WE-Saloons.html.
4. The term firewater came into being when traders, trying to sell whiskey to the Indians, would set it on fire to prove its high alcohol content. Kathy Weiser, “Saloons of the Old West,” Legends of America. July 2004, 10 July 2007. http://www.legendsofamerica.com/WE- Saloons.html.
5. The comic term for sheriff “great seizer” was a play on words from “Great Caesar.” Robert Hendrickson, Happy Trails: A Dictionary of Western Expressions (New York. Facts on File. 1994) 113.