BOYSEN Site — Shoshoni, Wyoming Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/boysen-shoshoni-wyoming/ The 1952 dam—where the river meets the reservoir. Boysen is a site in Shoshoni, Wyoming. The 1952 dam—where the river meets the reservoir. HauntHunt files it with engineering, dams and local folklore. Its accounts name only a collective — the dam workers. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. Boysen is the dam fight — Asmus Boysen's 1908 concrete dam in Wind River Canyon, the power plant that fought the railroad and lost to the flood. The thousand workers who built it were the town; the 1923 flood that filled the plant with silt was the end. The dam that's there now is the government's — the 1951 Boysen Dam the Pick-Sloan project built upstream, the reservoir that took the town's name. The tunnel is the remnant — the abandoned bore in Boysen State Park, the sky showing through the collapse, the last piece of the fight between the man and the CB&Q. Boysen leased the reservation land on borrowed Iowa Legislature stationery; the railroad fought him for the canyon for years. The state park that has the reservoir keeps the tunnel as the relic — the dam that was one man's ambition, the canyon that became the government's project. The file keeps Boysen: the 1908 dam, the railroad fight, the 1923 flood, and the 1951 replacement. Boysen is the archive's dam file — the town that lost to the reservoir. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Boysen is the archive's dam file — the private dam that the federal dam replaced. A canyon keeps its fight — the file's suggestion being that Boysen's hold is the tunnel: the crumbling bore that was the man-versus-railroad war, the flood that ended the plant, and the reservoir that took the name. FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures at the dam. The site in Shoshoni, Wyoming gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The account appears in 'Boysen'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. source: Boysen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boysen_Dam) · [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The workers are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the dam workers. Boysen in Shoshoni, Wyoming carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Boysen' carries the account. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted. source: Boysen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boysen_Dam) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · [1952] The 1952 dam is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Boysen'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The reports keep the address on the map. SOURCES — 1 cited · Boysen — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boysen_Dam — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/