Mike Jamison Articles
August 2002 – Wyoming Ghost Towns – Wyoming, USAAugust 2002 – Wyoming Ghost Towns
Fighting Fort Washakie’s South Fork Fire
Northfork Fire crews load up at Fort Washakie last Saturday for a
Dickinson Park ride.
Thin white ash drifting like snow during a sweltering early July afternoon last week had many Riverton, Wyoming residents joking about a “Washakie Winter.” Humor aside, such comments were ominous. Around 2 [...]
Is Yellowstone National Park North America’s Pompeii? – Wyoming, USADecember 2001 – Wyoming Ghost Towns
Heart Mountain, Wyoming – Wyoming, USANovember 2001 – Wyoming Ghost Towns
By Mike Jamison
World War II’s Japanese-American Relocation Camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming
The Heart Mountain camp’s power plant.
Early 20th Century Model-T tourists dubbed it the “Old Yellowstone Highway.” And for me, as with them, this solitary yet starkly beautiful route through the Rockies to Old Faithful has always promised untethered [...]
So You Want to Mine Coal: Gebo, Wyoming – Gebo, Wyoming, USANovember 2001 – Wyoming Ghost Towns
So You Want to Mine Coal: Gebo, Wyoming
Gebo’s graveyard reveals the miners’ struggle.
He was exploited, worked long dangerous hours underground; meager pay fed his family; social security didn’t exist; labor laws were practically non-existent – and a canary provided life insurance.
Think of him when modern office politics dog you. Yes, [...]
My Naughty Cruise Down Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats – Utah, USANo cops, no lights, no rules: Mike Jamison sneaks his wife’s car keys to make his speed demon dream come true.
October 2001 – Sweetwater, Part I – Wyoming Ghost TownsAutumn Gold in the Sweetwater Mining District,Part I
Head frame and main shaft building above one of many abandoned South Pass City area mines.
Gold exists in two forms: material and spiritual.
During Wyoming’s early years the former attracted miners westward in hopes of striking it rich. Today however, the towns these hardy folks established in that quest [...]
Japan’s WW II Balloon Bombing of Western National Forests – Wyoming Ghost TownsWW II’s Casper Army Air Field kept watch in Wyoming. An abandoned gunnery range tower still stands.
Riverton, Wyoming
September 11, 2001 and December 7, 1941: dates that will live in infamy.
Like its 1940s counterpart the September World Trade Center and U.S. Pentagon terrorist bombings have jolted Americans into reality. As with the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack [...]
Jeffrey City – Wyoming Ghost TownsA Forgotten Communities Primer:Jeffrey City, Wyoming’s Post-Industrial Ghost Town
A derelict Jeffrey City street corner.
Mention the American West, and pretty soon talk turns to ghost towns. If you’ve never actually seen one its concept is familiar: You know, Festus and Matt ride into a deserted false-front main street, in a howling gale that blows tumbling tumbleweeds.
Then, [...]
Mike Jamison: BootsnAll PhotojournalistMike Jamison
BootsnAll Photojournalist
Mike models his Jamison-style hiking sticks, handy for roaming the abandoned towns of Wyoming.
After three years of working and attending college full-time, Boots writer and photo dude Mike Jamison needed a break.
Attaining a University of Wyoming sociology degree was nice, but in his heart wanderlust for the American West’s wide open spaces [...]
