Also known as the Hog Ranch at Fetterman, the One Mile Hog Ranch was perhaps the rowdiest, roughest, and most dangerous red light establishment in Wyoming. Built by Harrison Kane in 1880, the saloon stood just across the Platte River about one mile north of Fort Fetterman, a government-controlled military reservation on the Bozeman Trail. With the addition of a dance hall and bawdy house, it soon gained a tough reputation as Kane’s whiskey business flourished, poker games ran night and day, and herds of cattle sometimes changed hands according to the fall of the cards. After the military post was abandoned, new owners John Lawrance and John "Jack" Saunders acquired the Hog Ranch, moved the operation across the river in 1884, and opened the new establishment in an abandoned military building. Later that year Billy Bacon bought Lawrance’s interest and partnered with Saunders. From the beginning, violence marked the place, as disputes frequently ended at gunpoint, and outlaws, freighters, and cowboys from nearby ranches came there to drink, gamble, and revel. For several years it was known as the most notorious gambling and red light house west of Chicago, with a reputation as a sanctuary beyond the law, until authorities closed it on December 8, 1885, after the partners argued and mortally wounded one another.