The postmaster gave no change when one bought a postage stamp.

A shave was worth a quarter of a dollar, or a half, or a dollar, as that might be.

The price of a single drink was never established, since that was something never called for.

For a cowman to spend one hundred dollars at the Cottage bar, and to lose ten thousand dollars at cards later in the same evening, was a feat not phenomenal.

There were more cattle, south in Texas.