The West of Deb and Jeff's imagination was alive and well in Central City, Colorado. History came to life for them almost every day through odd jobs they picked up and hanging out with the local peopl
August 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 [...]
November 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 [...]
November 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 [...]
