by Joanne Sundell | Aug 20, 2017 | Blog
“Goodbye God. We are going to Bodie.” Why would Grant H. Smith write these words supposedly uttered by a young girl moving to Bodie, California, in the late 1800’s, in his submission to the California Historical Society Quarterly IV:1, 1925? The...
by Joanne Sundell | Jul 14, 2017 | Blog
According to Colorado Ghost Tours, a book by Ann Westerberg, “In 1896, the Rocky Mountain News declared that it was printing no more ghost stories, as they had become too numerous.” It’s no wonder the famed newspaper came out with such a...
by Joanne Sundell | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog
Show me someone who doesn’t love a ghost story and I’ll show you someone who has no imagination, “she said good-naturedly.” Drawn to tales from the Old West in character, story, song, and legend, I’m also drawn to ghost towns and their...
by Joanne Sundell | Aug 27, 2016 | Blog
SPOILER ALERT, Romance Junkies! Okay, so I’m reading all about gold and gold mining, and its history, et al, when I thought to research a bit about why some stampeders during the Klondike Gold Rush were referred to as, Argonauts. Apparently some of these...
by Joanne Sundell | Aug 7, 2016 | Blog
There are ghost towns in the West … and in the North. Little remains of Dyea, AK, save for a few pilings and one wall of an old attorney’s office, circa 1898. Where some might see a dead town, I see a possible pathway back in time. If one listens long and...
