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It’s an unremarkable place, even by the standards of nondescript architecture.

A low-slung building with what appears to be a tin roof, a tourist stop just an hour away from the Grand Canyon, Black Bart’s Steakhouse sits just off Interstate 40 on the east side of Flagstaff, Arizona. There’s an antique store and an RV park, a break for people making their way through the beauty of the American Southwest.

After buying the property in the mid-1970s, transforming a recreational building into a restaurant and appropriating the nickname of a famous 19^th-century stagecoach bandi...