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Travel Directions:
Hwy 24 at the intersection of Range Road 260. Go north across the railroad tracks. Railway Avenue is the first road to the left (west).

Remarks:
The tiny bar counter gave Brokeback’s 19-year-old cowboys a larger-than-life presence that made their sad stories even tougher to hear. For those who are passionate about such things, the arresting collection of western lariats, spurs, branding irons, and castration tools on the wall behind Ennis is no longer there. Though the tavern does incorporate a simple upstairs hotel, you won’t get to stay there. It is rented by the week or month to locals. See:

http://ca.epodunk.com/profiles/alberta/carseland/2003618.html

Brokeback is not the Blue Bar’s first brush with Hollywood fame. Sam Elliott made The Hi-Lo Country in Carseland in 1998. (See the plaque on the west wall near the pool table.)

Quotation:
“Can’t please my old man, no way.”