Lipsweet of Cheyenne
Zeke and Buck was posted by the door — not the swinging half-door that connected the saloon Lipsweet to the dusty streets of Cheyenne, Wyoming — no sah, they stood by the door that led to the ladies’ dressing rooms and hideaways. The rough-knuckled and rumblehouse b’hoys with bricks in their hats was sure to push back there to seduce the angelicas if they could.
But as long as Zeke and Buck remained by the door like box herders, nobody tried nothing.
When the girls went onstage though, strutting the thangs they got, men often turnt rowdy. Either Buck or Zeke must gotta leave the door to settle the scene down. They done learnt that there better be two men by the door, so one could go knock some sense into these moppy men without leaving the door unattended. There was rapscallions who’d slip in there if they sniffed a chance.
Tonight though, the menfolk was subduent. A gaggle of sallow cowboys played cards in one corner. They all looked up from their card game only when one of the ladies came out into the saloon with a tray of food, and then the card game stopped so the men could gaze upon her lacy unmentionables.From Zeke the Cowboy











































