Ghosts of the Last Best Place

by Ellen Baumler

Overview

Montana's past embodied the rough, unforgiving and often vicious nature of the old Wild West. Unscrupulous gold camps and railroad expansion attracted the good, bad and ugly from all across the Union and as far as China. Many a soul shed blood under the Big Sky, leaving restless spirits to linger. Discover the famous cowboy artist who refuses to leave his Missoula home. Exhume the truth behind Stormit Butte, investigate the mystery at Brush Lake and become enraptured with the firsthand account of a Browning rancher's attempts at reconciliation with the ghost of a murdered Chinese rail laborer. Historian and award-winning author Ellen Baumler presents this collection of Last Best Place hauntings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467136150
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	10/10/2016
Series:	Haunted America
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,087,109
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ellen Baumler has been the interpretive historian at the Montana Historical Society since 1992. She earned her PhD in English, classics and history from the University of Kansas. Ellen is a longtime member of the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau, a 2011 recipient of the Governor's Award for the Humanities and an award-winning author. She is a popular storyteller, best known for weaving the past with the present in a ghostly twist.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 5

Introduction: Virginia City Hauntings 7

1 Terror in the Wilderness 15

2 On Willow Creek 23

3 Ghost on the Little Rosebud 30

4 Spirit in a Snowstorm 37

5 Voices in the Dark 45

6 The Haunting of the Judith River Ranger Station 55

7 When Dreams Become Nightmares 63

8 Mystery at Brush Lake 71

9 The Homestead 81

10 Residual Energy at Boulder Hot Springs 90

11 Stormit Butte 96

12 The Capitol Campus alter Dark 100

13 An Eclectic Epilogue 107

Notes 115

Index 123

About the Author 127

Editorial Reviews

"...Ellen Baumler explores hauntings across the state with the suspenseful voice of a campfire storyteller."Missoula Independent

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