July 7th, 2025: By day, they are your bartenders, housekeepers, cooks, and wilderness guides. But tonight, they tighten their corsets, pull up their suspenders, and transform into the town theatre company to tell the story of the ghosts of McCarthy.

But one ghost in particular has intrigued me since I got here- Rose. What started as a stroll through the McCarthy graveyard leads me to a chat with Hugh Hall, the playwright who is in town.

Set against the backdrop of Cheyenne painting a mural, Hugh and I have a coffee and a chat about the history of McCarthy and the women who made it here.

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