PINEDALE — Lila Golden said she was amazed at how many bullet holes were found in the walls of Pinedale’s Cowboy Bar when they stripped the siding off and replaced it in 2011.

The Cowboy Bar’s tough reputation was part of the deal when Golden’s father, C.W. Davis, bought it in 1969. Located on the corner of Maybell and Pine Street, it was known as a place where someone looking for trouble rarely left disappointed.

It was built in 1931 by an outlaw who rode with Butch Cassidy’s Hole in the Wall Gang and later was owned by a member of the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame who, according to local legend, won the bar in a card game.

Some of its former patrons in the 1970s were so well-known by local law enforcement that deputies from neighboring counties were often alerted on the nights when this

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