If it could talk, what stories this old bar could tell. Wyatt Earp himself likely dispensed beer, wine and spirits from behind its mahogany facade when the bar sat in his Northern Saloon in Tonopah, Nevada. Originally built in 1894, the bar spent its first years in Virginia City, Nevada, during that city’s silver revival. In 1901, it was purchased by Al Martin for a new saloon and gambling hall in the mining district of Tonopah. Wyatt Earp was fresh from his adventures in Alaska and flush w


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