{"id":2100,"slug":"occidental-hotel-buffalo-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Occidental is the literary — the 'Virginian' that's the Wister wrote, the 'gets his man' that's the scene staged. The 'poker won' is the passed — the '1918 game' that's the ranchers' prize, the 'Margaret 58 years' that's the wife managed. The 'Emily' is the died — the 'cholera child' that's the prostitute's daughter, the 'gets in bed' that's the guests felt.","The 'guest list' is the famed — the 'Cody, Roosevelt, Cassidy' that's the west's names, the 'Tom Horn' that's the killer lodged. The 'saved '97' is the restored — the 'Dawn Dawson' that's the decade rebuilt, the 'National Register' that's the near-lost listed. The Occidental is the climbed — the 'between the couple' that's the bed shared, the 'perfume smelled' that's the Hoover room.","The file keeps the Occidental: the Virginian's scene, the poker transfer, Emily's bed, and the saved landmark.","The Occidental is the archive's Wyoming file — the hotel that joined the guests."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Occidental is the archive's Wyoming file — the ghost that climbs into bed.","A hotel keeps its guest — the file's suggestion being that the Occidental's hold is the intimate: the 'bed between' that's the Emily joined, the 'poker won' that's the deed passed, and the 'Wister's chapter' that's the fiction's fact."]}],"name":"Occidental Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["FRONTIER_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HISTORIC_HOTEL"],"groups":["legends","lodging"],"desc":"1880s frontier hotel that hosted Butch Cassidy and Teddy Roosevelt.","full_desc":"Occidental Hotel is a hotel in Buffalo, Wyoming, built in 1880. 1880s frontier hotel that hosted Butch Cassidy and Teddy Roosevelt. The archive files it under historic hotels, frontier history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still takes guests.","address":null,"city":"Buffalo","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":44.3472,"lon":-106.6986,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1880,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":70,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1346,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Guests report a lady’s figure and sounds in the upstairs rooms. Occidental Hotel, a hotel in Buffalo, Wyoming, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The account appears in 'Occidental Hotel'. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Occidental Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Hotel_(Buffalo,_Wyoming)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Opened in 1880; its guest register includes Cassidy, Jane and Roosevelt. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Occidental Hotel'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1880","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Occidental Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Hotel_(Buffalo,_Wyoming)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Guests report a lady’s figure and sounds in the upstairs rooms. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. Sources including 'Occidental Hotel' keep the claim in circulation. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Occidental Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Hotel_(Buffalo,_Wyoming)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Occidental Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Hotel_(Buffalo,_Wyoming)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}