Entrepreneur recaptures flavor of Cheyenne’s past with Sarsaparilla drink

CHEYENNE – Dr. Clyde Farris remembers growing up in a time when Saturday matinee movie cowboys would walk into a saloon and say, “Make Mine Sarsaparilla.”So much so that now he’s recreating that old-time taste for a new generation with Cheyenne Sarsaparilla, a root beer-like drink that was a favorite during Cheyenne Frontier Days with its distinctive 100th anniversary Frontier Days label.
“I’ve always been a root beer fanatic myself, and for about 10 years I’ve had the idea to make a root beer drink with an old fashioned Western flair,´ said Farris, an Oregon orthopedic surgeon who grew up…