Miners and Stockmen's Steakhouse & Spirits

The saloon sits in Hartville, Wyoming's oldest incorporated town, where it served miners, prospectors, and cattle rustlers during the area's copper and iron mining heyday; during Prohibition, locals gathered secretly in its basement to drink. Its centerpiece is a cherry-wood bar back hand-carved in Germany in 1862 by five Brunswick brewmaster brothers, shipped to New York, carried by train to Cheyenne, and hauled by wagon to the officers' club at Fort Laramie. After the fort closed in the late 1880s the bar moved to the Hartville Opera House, and around 1942-43 it was installed in the current building, which also contains the town's original jail. In 2014 Scott and Christine Harmon sold everything they owned in Southern California to buy the business — which had sat closed for about two years — reopening it as a reservation-driven steakhouse and preserving the historic bar. It remains open year-round in 2026 as Hartville's only surviving business.

The five Brunswick brewmaster brothers who hand-carved the cherry-wood bar back in Germany in 1862 immortalized their own faces in its woodwork — still visible today.

What to order: Hand-cut steaks (the ribeye is repeatedly singled out in reviews) plus an extensive spirits list of roughly 35 whiskeys, served beneath the 1862 hand-carved cherry-wood bar.