by Sharon Hall | Dec 3, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Wild West Wednesday
No one seems to have a definitive history of Jackson Lee “Diamondfield Jack” Davis’ early life. Even the date and place of his birth appears to be a mystery. A cursory internet search will yield results spanning the years between 1864 and 1879 as his purported birth...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 29, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
I’ve been reading a series of books about Swedish immigrants who came to America and settled in central Kansas beginning in the late-1860’s. According to the Kansas Historical Society, eastern immigration companies sent agents to Europe to encourage...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 22, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Today, this would be considered an unfortunate name for a town, ghostly or otherwise. Believe it or not, years ago the swastika symbol was widely used. It was also used by Native American tribes like the Navajos, Hopis, Apaches and others (although later...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 15, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
I was looking for an interesting ghost town to feature this week, preferably short and sweet since I’m under the weather this week with some nasty upper respiratory thing-y. I opened up one of my trusty ghost town books, Ghost Towns of Kansas by Daniel Fitzgerald. ...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 8, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Gold and silver were discovered in the late 1880’s in what is now southwest Catron County, New Mexico. Preferably, in order to contain costs, gold and silver needed to be processed as close as possible to the mines. However, the problem in this particular...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 1, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
“It isn’t likely that a tourist will ever see the old Reagan County Courthouse at Stiles unless he is looking for it, or just flat lost.” That’s what a contributor on the Ghost Towns web site had to say about Stiles, Texas. It’s a bit off the beaten track these...
