original cowboy coffee

 

Arbuckles Coffee is known as the Original Cowboy Coffee.  Sometime after the Civil War, the Arbuckle Brothers came up with the idea of selling roasted coffee.  Previously coffee beans had to roasted in a skillet before brewing into coffee.  With a consistently fine quality, Arbuckle Coffee, the first sold in one-pound bag, soon became the favorite of the Old West.  Most cowboys didn't know anything else.  Arbuckles even sells Chuck Wagon Coffee especially roasted for the Lubbock's National Cowboy Symposium.  And the quilt on the Hightower chuck wagon?  A period piece with the "Double T" pattern which supposedly originated with the women of the Temperance movement who made a difference by standing with determination for what they believed was right. The Double T stood as the symbol of their resolve. Although, temperance not withstanding, the Double T also appropriately stands for Texas Tech!

 

Hightower Chuck Wagon

Lubbock, Texas

7.22.2014