Hats & Beanies

If the ranches were the valley’s muscle, The Old Saloon was its pulse. Founded in 1902 by Ab (Abe) Armstrong, a former miner turned entrepreneur, the saloon opened its doors the same year the Northern Pacific Railway extended passenger service to Emigrant. Built directly adjacent to the rail depot, its hitching posts and wide porch greeted cowboys dismounting from cattle drives, miners descending from Emigrant Gulch, and wide eyed tourists bound for Yellowstone.