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Blackie the Bear Drinking Beer from a bottle outside the Scarborough Saloon in Claude Texas in 1890. Nickels were hard to come by in the tough economic times of the early 1890s, but the cowboys patronizing Jim Scarborough’s saloon in Claude Texas never minded standing Blackie a drink when they could afford to.