Shooting Star Saloon

Mounted on the wall of Utah's oldest bar is the head of a St. Bernard named Buck, which was the 297-pound mascot of the Shamrock Bar in West Yellowstone, Montana. When the dog died in 1957, his owner had him stuffed -- with the head mold of a grizzly bear -- and sent him to the Shooting Star (long story), a beer-only joint where Tex Ritter wails on the box (seven songs for a dollar) and the ceiling's plastered with fives and twenties signed by customers. On Sunday afternoons the regular crowd of cowboys and skiers is outnumbered by bikers, and despite the handwritten sign that says WE ARE NOT A RESTAURANT. NO SPECIAL ORDERS, the Shooting Star serves the best burgers in the state.