SHOSHONI Town — Shoshoni, Wyoming Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/shoshoni-shoshoni-wyoming/ The railroad town—where the Yellowstone Highway begins. Shoshoni is a town in Shoshoni, Wyoming. The railroad town—where the Yellowstone Highway begins. Its accounts name only a collective — the shoshoni dead. 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. It is a living community — be a respectful visitor. Shoshoni is the tent city that stayed — the 1905 railroad town on the reservation's edge, the crossroads where the highways meet. The railroad made it — the Chicago and North Western's terminal, the two thousand under canvas before the bricks. The saloons were the first — the twenty-three bars in the boom, the homestead lottery that brought the crowds. The canyon is the gateway — the Wind River Canyon route to Yellowstone, the Boysen Dam that the railroad feared. The fire was the reset — the 1907 blaze that took the tents, the town that rebuilt in wood. Shoshoni is the reservation's border town — the cession that opened the land, the railhead that became the highway junction. The file keeps Shoshoni: the 1905 tent city, the railroad, the homestead lottery, and the canyon gateway. Shoshoni is the archive's Wind-River file — the tent town that's the crossroads. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Shoshoni is the archive's Wind-River file — the railroad town on the reservation edge. A town keeps its junction — the file's suggestion being that Shoshoni's hold is the convergence: the rails that met, the highways that cross, and the canyon that's the route to Yellowstone. FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures in the town. A Wyoming town's lore is municipal property; Shoshoni keeps this account in its unofficial archive. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. Sources including 'Shoshoni' keep the claim in circulation. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. source: Shoshoni (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshoni,_Wyoming) · [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. The presences go by the Shoshoni dead in the file. Shoshoni, Wyoming is a living community with a dead file — the reports are the town's other history. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Shoshoni'. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed. source: Shoshoni (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshoni,_Wyoming) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · The town’s history is documented. Shoshoni'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. Sources including 'Shoshoni' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The file stays open on it. SOURCES — 1 cited · Shoshoni — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshoni,_Wyoming — 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/