And don't forget the "stogy."  Stogies were evidently those long, thin, and
inexensive cigars preferred by drivers of Conestoga wagons, those heavy
covered wagons first manufactured in Conestgoa, Pennsylvania, made famous in
the great westward migration.
    Bunny F.
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From: "Michael Pfeiffer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: "PLUG" Tobacco Tins


> 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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