Wyoming Ghost Towns 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, [...]
