What I find equally interesting is that a John Walton worked at Anderson's bar on Almond Street. You will recall that John Walton, a thirty-seven-year-old pimp from Beardstown, Illinois, was plying the prostitution trade along with Wyatt Earp from a floating bordello during the summer of 1872 that the public called the Beardstown Gunboat. John Walton reportedly owned a second boat that Walton had similarly outfitted to work the river trade. That boat may have been named the Duggin Gunboat which was skippered by Isaac Duggin who was originally from Beardstown and he had operated a large saloon and house of prostitution in Peoria around 1870. Gunboats were known to operate on the Illinois River and the Mississippi River. Its likely that there was a circuit that these men used along the waterways which would have included St. Louis.