Long Branch Saloon, Saloon at Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City, United States
The Long Branch Saloon is a reconstructed building at the Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City, United States, representing a drinking establishment from the Wild West period. The bar features Cherry wood from 1881 with two Golden Eagles mounted on it, and the room displays furnishings and fixtures typical of a late 19th-century frontier tavern.
The original establishment emerged in the 1870s following a wager between cowboys and soldiers during a baseball game. Fire destroyed the building in 1885, and the museum later constructed this replica using authentic fixtures from that era.
Musical groups from the frontier era performed regularly, and one such band later played at the inauguration of an American president. The saloon served as a gathering point where cowboys and merchants came together after a long day to exchange news and stories.
Visitors can order cold drinks in the reconstructed room and watch demonstrations that show life in a frontier town. The site is part of the museum complex, and the exhibit is accessible during tours of the historical buildings.
A gunfight took place across a table in 1879 between two men after accusations about unwanted advances surfaced. This incident was recorded in contemporary documents and is among the few well-documented confrontations from that period.
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