JACKSON HOLE Site — Jackson, Wyoming Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/jackson-hole-jackson-wyoming/ The valley—where the trappers held their rendezvous. A site in Jackson, Wyoming, Jackson Hole is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The valley—where the trappers held their rendezvous. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the trappers. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors. A 'hole,' in mountain-man English, was a high valley ringed by mountains — and the one below the Tetons belonged to Davey Jackson, a trapper who wintered on the shore of the lake that also bears his name. His partner William Sublette called it Jackson's Hole in 1829, and the name outlasted the beaver, the fashion for fur hats, and the entire era that produced it. The valley had been hunting ground for the Shoshone, Bannock, and Blackfeet long before John Colter — fresh off the Lewis and Clark expedition — probably became the first white man to see it in the winter of 1807. The mountain men followed: Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger, Sublette, and Jackson himself ran the traplines that fed the rendezvous. When the beaver were trapped out and silk replaced fur, the trappers vanished and the valley went quiet for a generation — eighteen years, by the historians' count, when almost nobody came at all. The settlers who finally stayed found a valley too cold and too short-seasoned to farm — which is why it survived. Jackson Hole became dude ranches, then a national monument that locals fought and Congress ratified, then Grand Teton National Park, then the ski resort and the billionaires' retreat it is today. The town of Jackson still has its elk-antler arches on the square; the lake is still named for the trapper who wintered there two hundred years ago. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Jackson Hole is the archive's named-valley file — a landscape so beautiful it was named for the man who merely wintered in it, then preserved because it was too harsh to ruin. A valley too cold to farm kept its wilderness — the file's suggestion being that Jackson Hole was saved by the same severity that made the trappers leave. FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified · [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The trappers are reportedly seen. Jackson Hole in Jackson, Wyoming carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. 'Jackson Hole' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease. source: Jackson Hole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Hole) · [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures in the valley. The site in Jackson, Wyoming gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. 'Jackson Hole' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. source: Jackson Hole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Hole) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · The valley’s history is documented. Jackson Hole's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Jackson Hole'. The date is part of the site's documented spine. SOURCES — 1 cited · Jackson Hole — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Hole — 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/