Saturday, June 16, 2012

The Jews Who Tamed The Wild West


Harvey House, Belen, New Mexico (Kim Choate/MDRails)

(Jewish Week) ... Schweizer, on the other hand, was like a bold character out of “Blazing Saddles” — a short, stocky, prematurely balding, cigar-chomping German immigrant who rose from selling oranges on Santa Fe trains in California to managing the Harvey eating house in Gallup, N.M., (a job he got after winning a fight with a tough freight train crew that refused to pay — crowning one with a Fred Harvey signature sugar bowl and pulling an unloaded antique gun on the other). Continued

Photo: Harvey House, Belen, New Mexico (Kim Choate/MDRails)

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