Where are you if you're buying whiskey, grain, and saddles at the general store?
Options:
- salt
- checkers
- shopping mall
- old west
- meat store Let's give stream of consciousness first:

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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The Old West encompasses the period after the Civil War, the rest of the 1800s, and the early part of the 20th century up to 1912, when the last mainland states entered the Union.
Therefore, the answer is old west.