From its time as The Mint Cigar Company and Soda Shop with a speakeasy run in the back room
during the sneaky times of Prohibition, to the multiple times horses stopped in for a drink,
The Mint Bar has served as a backdrop for the personal legends of generations.
“Here it is folks – the best neon sign I’ve ever seen. The Mint Bar is the coolest thing about the great cowboy town of Sheridan, which is in a part of northern Wyoming that’s too cold and too remote for all the Californians to move there and ruin it. You wouldn’t want to say anything bad about John Wayne at the Mint. Real cowboys hang out there. Faron Young is still on the jukebox. The put pictures of cows on the wall. It’s a near-perfect place, and I hope it never changes.”
– Musician Ben O’Connor on his visit to the Mint Bar while passing through Sheridan on his 2002 tour
