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Which probably places this in the 20th century, as it's likely that drugs laws didn't exist until the 1870s and the Wild West itself lasted pretty much to the turn of the century.

This sounds pretty fair. While I have really enjoyed all of the speculation and surmise, I don't want to be a real PITA. I have the unredacted passage in a text file at home and I'll post that either late tonight or in AM. 'Course, if I have to stop the car, I get all the beer.

Oh, FWIW, I think I dropped a *very* opaque clue elsewhere if anybody is thirsty. What I would categorize as something of a turning-point clue.
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