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Notice that you don't see any cigars before 1849! They were smoked in only
a few places in Spanish Florida and northern Mexico (now Texas and the
American Southwest). They became wildly popular with American troops in
the Mexican-American war. Within 2-3 years they has spread all over the
United States. Cigarettes exploded the same way in the 1890s.
Smoke.
Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer, RPA
Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
605 West Main Street
Russellville, Arkansas 72801
(479) 968-2354 Ext. 233
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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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This should add to the confusion. I just happened to have six probate
inventories from stores in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia sitting on
my
desk this morning, and they provide us with the following tobacco types:
1814 1/2 barrel "sigars"
1814 4 snuff boxes
1830 50 pounds tobacco, noted as being "bad"
1830 1 "spit box"
1833 No tobacco products
1850 121/2 pounds tobacco
1850 1 tobacco cutter
1855 300 "Brown" cigars
1855 250 "Spotted" cigars
1855 125 "Imperial" cigars
1855 300 "Colorado" cigars
1855 300 "Princisees" cigars
1855 50 "Opera" cigars
1855 1400 "Common" cigars
1855 1 tobacco knife
1865 30 pounds cut and dried tobacco
1865 6 dozen "Cock of the Walk" tobacco
1865 4 pounds "Kittenuk" tobacco
1865 9 pounds "Valley" tobacco
1865 135 pounds "Lynchburg" tobacco, noted as being "damaged"
1865 11 pounds "Natural Leaf" tobacco
1865 26 pounds "Sweet" tobacco
1865 220 pounds "Yellow Leaf" tobacco
1865 125 pounds "Ger" tobacco
Evidently our folks here liked their "sigars"
Will
William D. Updike, RPA
Principal Investigator
Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc.
3556 Teays Valley Road, Suite #3
Hurricane, West Virginia 25526
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