Coffee Pots In Saddle Bags In Western Movies

[Wyatt Burp]

OK. We're watching Siveraldo for the bazillinth time and I finally decide to ask you fine folks this question. In endless westerns our heroes, and also the bad guys, are always brewing coffee over an open fire out in the wide open spaces. How come there's never any coffee pot type bulges in their saddle bags when they're riding around? Where do these coffee pots come from? What the ..uh, "heck", is going on here?

 

[Welder1]

John Wayne wouldn't pitch camp anywhere unless it had a coffee pot. Same as my wife won't stay at a hotel that doesn't have a blow dryer.

 

[Xfuzz]

Same place where they get the Colts SAA with 17 rounds.

 

[DeathGrip]

They didn't have back packs?

 

[Poodle Soup]

cowboys in westerns seem to sleep in little tents quite often to... and on the fire.... where did they get the nice pieces of timber in the desert?

 

[blujax01]

Come to think of it, where did they stash their guitars?

 

[shouldazagged]

Where do these coffee pots come from? What the ..uh, "heck", is going on here?

They store them with that eighty-piece orchestra playing behind a big rock.

Think about it--if they had to break camp in a hurry, a pot of scalding coffee in a saddlebag could be a problem.

 

[shouldazagged]

Come to think of it, where did they stash their guitars?

And why didn't they keep them stashed?

 

[Kanewpadle]

Didn't you know they had folding coffee pots back then?

 

[Bat Guano]

I always like the 'ranches' they show in Monument Valley and such places; not a blade of grass visible from here to the horizon. A lot of it was called "The Great American Desert" for a reason!

 

[COL Jagdog]

OK. We're watching Siveraldo for the bazillinth time and I finally decide to ask you fine folks this question. In endless westerns our heroes, and also the bad guys, are always brewing coffee over an open fire out in the wide open spaces. How come there's never any coffee pot type bulges in their saddle bags when they're riding around? Where do these coffee pots come from? What the ..uh, "heck", is going on here?

It's because they carried miniature Keurig brewers and those tiny little 1-cup brew packs that take up only a little room in their saddlebags, leaving plenty of room for hardtack, bacon,
sugar, extra ammo, a couple sets of clean drawers, and a small bag of concentrated horse feed.

Oh, and a bottle of whiskey for him and his horse and a $5 gold piece to help him get lucky at Miss Kitty's

 

[mjr]

Well, you see, there were hundreds of government-sponsored campsites all over the Old West, each equipped with a coffee pot, frying pan, and a quarter cord of firewood. Cowboys, lawmen, and outlaws alike would ride in, kindle a fire, brew up a pot of coffee and chill out. In the morning they'd ride on, unburdened by cookware. No one ever washed anything, particularly the coffee pots, because as everyone knows, "A washed pot never boils."

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

In the diary of Confederate infantry solider he talked of a issue cast iron skillet of about 4" Dia. and boiling coffee in it and the whole beans were smashed with the rifle but as no grinders were issued. He also mentioned drinking the coffee from the skillet. Seeing as a large number of the western folk were of southern linage, I'm sure they were capable of drinking coffee without a coffee pot. Ivan

 

[Kanewpadle]

I bet these guys would know!

 

[rwsmith]

One thing I remember about the west

They store them with that eighty-piece orchestra playing behind a big rock.

Think about it--if they had to break camp in a hurry, a pot of scalding coffee in a saddlebag could be a problem.

I've traveled through a lot of the west and one thing that always seemed odd was that where ever I went I never could hear 'Western music' playing. Not even a harmonica.

Oh, the coffee pots..... they were collapsible.

 

[LedFowl]

Fanny packs. They carried them in fanny packs.

 

[Faulkner]

I've always wondered about the women out on the trail . . . I mean, I drove my family to Disney World last summer in a air conditioned car with state run rest stops along the route, and conveniance stores, and drive thru fast food, and there was still a lot of drama.

 

[tops]

They are just movies. They are not real. Movies are just fanasties. Larry

 

[HAWKEYE10]

OK. We're watching Siveraldo for the bazillinth time and I finally decide to ask you fine folks this question. In endless westerns our heroes, and also the bad guys, are always brewing coffee over an open fire out in the wide open spaces. How come there's never any coffee pot type bulges in their saddle bags when they're riding around? Where do these coffee pots come from? What the ..uh, "heck", is going on here?

I love the old western movies but like you I have wondered about things like a coffee pot. One of the biggest things I wonder about is there is no horse piles on the ground in the western towns. I also wonder if in the real western towns if they had people to pick up all the horse piles. If they did employ people to pick it up and they were government employees , well I don't want to even think about that. Don

 

[bullmack]

Western etiquette was to leave the coffee pots at the campfire for the next hooligan to use so they wouldn't have to pack'em around!