Spirit Tailings: Ghost Tales from Virginia City, Butte and Helena

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Floorboards creaking. Inanimate objects flying off walls. Fleeting glimpses of ghostly figures moving in solemn grace through the halls and walls of our homes and offices. We all recognize these telltale signs of haunted places, and in this delightful collection of stories from Montana's legendary mining towns the state's supernatural history comes to life. Ellen Baumler has tracked down descendants and participants, searched out historical records, and interviewed hundreds in her passionate pursuit of the ghost tales of Helena, Virginia City, and Butte. With a lively pen and critical eye, she captures in these wonderful stories Montana's rich cultural heritage - and scares the bejesus ...

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Floorboards creaking. Inanimate objects flying off walls. Fleeting glimpses of ghostly figures moving in solemn grace through the halls and walls of our homes and offices. We all recognize these telltale signs of haunted places, and in this delightful collection of stories from Montana's legendary mining towns the state's supernatural history comes to life. Ellen Baumler has tracked down descendants and participants, searched out historical records, and interviewed hundreds in her passionate pursuit of the ghost tales of Helena, Virginia City, and Butte. With a lively pen and critical eye, she captures in these wonderful stories Montana's rich cultural heritage - and scares the bejesus out of you to boot.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780917298912
  • Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/2002
  • Pages: 160
  • Sales rank: 1,240,893
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.45 (d)

Meet the Author

Ellen Baumler is a writer and interpretive historian. She lives in Helena, Montana.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1
Virginia City Tailings
Virginia Slade 8
The Body in the Bathtub 15
Thus Would We Leave Her 20
Mother Irene 25
Lightning Splitter 32
The Cook's Helper and the Winsome Maiden 35
Nevada City Ghosts 39
Butte Tailings
Mine Spooks 48
The Haunting of the Quartz Street Fire Station 53
Of Copper Kings and Other Things 61
A Spook to Believe In 65
Mansion Mysteries 72
A Discordant Note 78
The Ghostly Madam at the Dumas Hotel 80
A Midnight Visitor 88
Helena Tailings
John Denn 94
The Ghosts That Weren't 99
Mamie's Bells 103
Little Girl Lost 110
Count Your Blessings 114
The Haunted Cabin 119
The Mumblers 124
Lady of the House 128
The Right Time 134
Montana Club's Urban Legend 138
Epilogue 144
Sources 146
Index 147
Virginia City
George Lane's mummified foot and cane 7
The Slades' stone house 9
Boot Hill 17
Frank and Amanda McKeen 18
Bonanza Inn 26
Lightning Splitter 33
Nevada City Hotel 44
Butte
Steel Headframe 47
Men Getting Ready to Blast 54
Quartz Street Fire Station 57
Invitation to Hanging 67
Timer and artifacts from prostitute's crib 81
"Hidey hole" 83
Artist portrait of the ghostly madam 87
Helena
Freight train on Main Street 93
Eckert photo of hanging 96
Mamie Cruse 106
Cruse Mausoleum 109
George Mitchell in front of Pioneer Cabin 122
Father Van Gorp 127
Clara Bicknell Hodgin 129
Tatem House 134
Montana Club 140

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