History is Fascinating

I have dined at Thunder and Buttons on numerous occasions.  I love their Bison beacon burger by the way.  I guess I never reflected much on the name of the restaurant, but today I learned where the moniker originated.  In the late 1800's two local characters, Laura Belle (a popular lady of ill repute), and Prairie Dog O'Byrne (a local cowboy) used to blaze up and down Colorado Ave. in a wagon pulled buy two harnessed elk.  You guessed it...the names of the elk were "Thunder" and "Buttons".  Like Paul Harvey used to say..."and now you know the rest of the story".  I only wish I could have been there to see it.