by Joanne Sundell | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog
What, you may ask, does a picture of Doc Holliday’s dental chair have to do with any ghost story out of the Old West? Besides the fact of which this pic might not be the actual chair but a mock-up! The chair might not be real. The same could be said of ghosts and...
by Joanne Sundell | Sep 18, 2017 | Blog
Haunted facts make for good fiction! Think Tombstone, AZ. Think Wyatt Earp. Think, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Historical fact attests to Wyatt Earp’s presence in Tombstone. Historical fact attests to the occurrence of the famous gunfight, at 3:00 in the...
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...
