{"id":11467,"date":"2010-09-25T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=740"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","slug":"back-to-bullocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/back-to-bullocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To Bullocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tap, tap.. tap..came the sound on my door . Seth, is that you?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nope, just Linda who forgot her key.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"bullockWe\u2019re holed up here in Deadwood Gulch at the Bullock Hotel fully expecting a visit from the owner, himself, before we leave..even though he\u2019s been dead for nearly a hundred years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s safe to say that there may not be a Deadwood today if it were not for ol\u2019Seth Bullock. He was among the very first to settle here and worked as a gold miner, a hardware merchant, a farmer\/rancher, a lawman and hotelier. He built this place in the early 1890\u2019s and is one of the oldest buildings on Deadwood\u2019s Main Street. It looks pretty much the same on the outside as it did when the doors first opened in 1895. Folks (mostly Bullock employees) like to say it was the finest hotel between Chicago and San Francisco. Oh, yeah..it\u2019s haunted.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0I brought the camera along in hopes of getting a photo of Seth roaming the halls but I\u2019m usually not very lucky when it comes to his slot machines downstairs or capturing\u00a0apparitions upstairs. I\u2019ll let you know if I see or hear anything out-of-this-worldly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, the missus and I are on another vacation. No grass growing under our feet..although the yard at home hasn\u2019t been mowed for so long its embarrassing. \u00a0I swear I saw Arte Johnson in a German uniform peaking through the tall grass saying, \u201cVerrry Interestink.\u201d (Anyone under 40 is probably saying \u201cwhat the heck is he talking about?\u201d )<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, this isn\u2019t a real vacation, just a long weekend with our friends, the Graves, to try save the economy of Deadwood through generous donations made into brightly colored noisy coin operated devices located all over town. <\/strong><\/p>\n

A few of the casinos..Saloon Number 10 and the Gold Dust..were busy as could be on a Friday night..but a lot of others were dead as Wild Bill Hickok. In fact, several on the north end of Main street have given up the ghost and shut down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d be very interested in reading any ghost stories you might be willing to share about staying here at the Bullock or any other eerie experiences you\u2019ve had in this town that\u2019s full of spirits..both liquid and ghostly.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, and since this is a family friendly blog, please no stories about memorable encounters at places like Pam\u2019s Purple Door.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tap, tap.. tap..came the sound on my door . Seth, is that you?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nope, just Linda who forgot her key. We\u2019re holed up here in Deadwood Gulch at the Bullock Hotel fully expecting a visit from the owner, himself, before we leave..even though he\u2019s been dead for nearly a hundred years. It\u2019s safe to say…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-at-large","category-60","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11847,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions\/11847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}