Valley Tan
"Tannery was the first technological process introduced into the Mormon Valley: hence all home industry has obtained the sobriquet of 'Valley Tan.'"
"Tannery was the first technological process introduced into the Mormon Valley: hence all home industry has obtained the sobriquet of 'Valley Tan.'"
"But we knew afterward that it was something he had been drinking. It was the exclusively Mormon refresher,'valley tan.' Valley tan (or, at least, one form of valley tan) is a kind of whisky, or first cousin to it;…
"The Pilgrim Whisky of That Day was a bad compound. Owing to the distance which it had to be carried, alcohol was substituted for whisky, and when a person out in that country…
"There is little doubt that the principle commodity sold here [at Dobytown] was whiskey of a dubious type identified by one victim as 'popskull.' Get. William T. Sherman called it…
"'The saloon . . . in which I spend=t most of the evening consisted of a long narrow room with a bar made of rough boards extending the entire length…
"It would be inappropriate to omit reference to one more item in the emigrants' bill of fare—whiskey. This was brought along in casks or barrels, and it was an important…