Wild West - Barn / Livery stable

A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West. Saloons served customers such as trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen, lawmen, outlaws, miners, and gamblers. The first saloon was established at Brown's Hole, Wyoming, in 1822, to serve trappers.

In the early frontier years, private individuals and outposts of the Hudson Bay Company and other trading companies provided banking services. As states west of the Mississippi began developing after the 1840s, capital flowed fairly readily from the east coast and also from foreign sources.