VIRGINIAN HOTEL
Hotel — 404 Lincoln Hwy., Medicine Bow, Wyoming
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/virginian-hotel-medicine-bow-wyoming/

Hotel associated with woman-in-beige folklore.

A hotel in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, Virginian Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Hotel associated with woman-in-beige folklore. HauntHunt files it with haunted locations. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Woman in beige. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

The Virginian is the hotel the novel built — the three-story stone pile that went up in Medicine Bow in 1911, named for Owen Wister's book that had made the town famous nine years earlier. Wister had slept on the counter of the general store in 1885, come back for fifteen years of diaries, and written the first Western; the hotel named itself for his hero and became the biggest between Denver and Salt Lake.
The town was the railroad — Union Pacific ties floated down the Medicine Bow River, the roundhouse and the water tank, the cattle shipped from the Laramie Plains. The hotel was the Lincoln Highway's stop: cowboys and railroad men and the commerce of a Wyoming that was still the open range. Wister's cabin is in town now, moved piece by piece as a Bicentennial project, and the Virginian still feeds the travelers on Highway 30.
The file keeps the Virginian: the novel's town, the 1911 opening, the biggest hotel on the plains, and the 'smile when you call me that' that was born on the ranch outside the door.
The Virginian is the archive's Medicine Bow file — the first Western's hotel and the town the railroad made.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Virginian is the archive's Medicine Bow file — the 1911 hotel, the Wister novel, and the Lincoln Highway stop.
A hotel named for a book keeps its range — the file's suggestion being that the Virginian's hold is the source: the town that made the novel, the hotel that took its name, and the West that was already mythology when the stones went up.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: Wyoming Office of Tourism recounts a woman in beige linked to an unverified romantic tragedy. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: 15 Haunted Places to Visit in Wyoming (https://travelwyoming.com/blog/stories/post/haunted-places-to-visit-in-wyoming/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· 15 Haunted Places to Visit in Wyoming — Wyoming Office of Tourism
  https://travelwyoming.com/blog/stories/post/haunted-places-to-visit-in-wyoming/

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