A shorty but a goody! Just a story about a town where Union Pacific railroad workers nearly rioted and delayed the Golden Spike ceremony at Promontory Point by 3 days to make sure they were paid for their work. You can find pictures of what remains of the town on instagram and facebook at Smalltownology! Make sure you follow along for more tales of the west, releasing every other Friday.

Happy Halloween! In this episode, I'm going to tell you all about the haunted Sweetwater County Library. Why is it haunted? Well, it's literally built on the old Green River cemetery, and not all the folks interred there were moved to the new cemetery... and some of the permanent residents are said to still make an appearance.

This IS still a history podcast, but for Halloween I'm going to tell you all about this haunted location in a focused snapshot of the city of Green River, Wyoming.

References:

Spirits in the Stacks by Micki Gilmore

Credits:

Music: “Outdoors In Summer” by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com

All research, editing, and episode curating is done by me - I hope you enjoy the history as much as I do! Follow me on Instagram @smalltownology for photos and updates!

Announcement: I'm getting the podcast exported to more listening platforms! Apple music and Amazon music coming soon.

I recorded this announcement with my new microphone! The first time with the echo on; the second time I sounded like I was speaking through a tunnel... and now, sitting in my closet, speaking uncomfortably close to the microphone, my sound quality is so much better!

I also want to tell you something I learned about literally today while finishing one of the episodes I'll bring to you soon: there is an event each year at Fort Washakie called the Eastern Shoshone Indian Days Powwow, this year it will be held June 27-29th! I wanted to get this information out there, I'm not super plugged in so I didn't know about it until now. This is the largest powwow in Wyoming, I've read, and one of the longest running! Mark your calendar!

Music: “Outdoors In Summer” by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com

If you are interested in the old west and the civil war, this is the episode for you! Black Bart was a "gentleman bandit" stagecoach robber that made a bad interaction with Wells Fargo Stagecoach Co his literal villain origin story. I explore Black Bart's early life, his time serving for the Union Army in the United States Civil War, his gold prospecting efforts, his stagecoach robberies, and finally his disappearance-slash-death. My sources can be found on Smalltownology.com. This podcast is written, recorded, and edited by me while my kid naps and yes, at some point I will find the microphone I bought specifically to record this podcast. This podcast was edited with Soundlab and I used open source music for the intro/outro called Outdoors in Summer.

Music: “Outdoors In Summer” by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com