Have you ever ran across something that just doesn’t sound
right? I read, not as much as I used to, about a book a week. Twice in the last
five or six books I have had a cowboy ask for a cup of Java. Java, really?
Maybe some used the term, I live in Wyoming, have for decades,
never have heard anyone ask for Java. Not very cowboy like. Now I live in modern times, so maybe it was different a hundred years ago but I don't think so. I did a quick search
and could not find when the word Java was first used as slang for coffee. Someone
in the old west may have asked for a cup of Java but my money says he was on
vacation wearing a three piece suit with a gold watch chain and came to town on the train. 
Cowboys liked their coffee, drank a lot of it. They drank it black and they drank it sweet.
Wanna make your cowboy into a real cowboy, have him ask for a cup of Arbuckle's. Arbuckle’s Ariosa to be exact, but no one asked for it that
way.
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