Located on historic Whiskey Row in Prescott, the saloon was opened in 1877, and rebuilt in 1901 after a disastrous fire swept the district in 1900.

[1] The saloon was the scene of other violence including the beating death of a sometime prostitute named Jennie Clark, by her boyfriend Fred Glover.

The central pediment on the front façade contained the seal of the Arizona Territory, flanked by a mountain lion and a bear.

[11] Holliday's common-law wife, Mary Katherine Horony-Cummings, better known as Big Nose Kate, had worked upstairs as a prostitute.

[11][12] In 1996, the saloon underwent a retrograde renovation, restoring the interior to better reflect the time in which it was created, including swinging doors, hardwood floors, oak wainscoting and leaded-glass windows.

[14] It has been named "America's 10 best historic saloons" by USA Today, the second smallest city in the United States to be able to claim such a distinction.

Built in New Jersey, the bar was freighted around the tip of South America to San Francisco, from where it was transported by pack mule to Prescott, then the territorial capital of Arizona.

"[1] In addition to the swinging doors, hardwood floors, oak wainscoting and leaded-glass windows, the walls are lined with historic photographs and taxidermy.

The bar taps are in unusual shapes such as a pistol and a cowboy,[10] there is a high, pressed-tin ceiling,[16] and the booths are named after famous patrons such as the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday.