The Horn

The Horn is an eclectic restaurant with a wide variety on their menu, including steaks, burger, salads, sandwiches and wraps, appetizers and more. Wine & Beer menu list local as well as regional types. Local owned, restaurant includes an art and antique catalog and there is a penny mural on the floor.  Another hazard that visitors of the saloon faced was the threat of a drunken ruckus. William Horn was rumored to be a frequent belligerent drunk. It was reported that on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1898, Horn and a regular customer, Charles Ryall, got into a brawl over a bottle of the Saloon’s infamous whiskey. Ryall tried to take it home, but Horn would not permit it. The small argument escalated into a weapon-wielding fight, Ryall attacked Horn with a club and then Horn shot him down. Ryall died instantly on the dirt floor of the saloon. Later, when Horn was charged with murder, he was found not guilty; a classic example of justice in the Wild West. Anna Marie Horn also had a liking to the bottle, and would wander around town frequently in an inebriated state. During the winter, she was known to wear her prized 100-pound fitted buffalo hide coat; an item that would later contribute to her demise. On an exceptionally wintery day, Mrs. Horn was coming back from the Wingfield Store when she tripped and fell into the Woods irrigation ditch, now known as the Verde ditch. Unfortunately for the “Horn A-Plenty,” she drowned in 3 inches of water. The combination of her 300 lbs. and the soaked buffalo hide coat required all of the available men and boys in the town to remove her from the ditch, but regrettably they were unable to save her in time. The rest of the history of the Horns is left solely to one’s imagination. If you listen closely to the winds along the canyon walls and through the sagebrush, another tale will surely emerge. After a sweet libation or two, all will feel a close connection to The Horns at the newly reopened Horn Saloon.