review

Tanner Tippets
January 22, 2009
Review project
Occidental hotel

At he Occidental hotel there are many exciting sites to see. There is a little restaurant and right across from that there is a bar with many animal trophies that were either donated from far away or gathered by owners of the hotel. When we first got to the hotel there was a kind lady telling us the history. There were outlaws, presidents and even hookers that stayed in the hotel back in the days. She told us an everything that was in the hotel was actual items that were in there since the hotel was built. She even told us a story about a little girl that was killed by cowboys at the hotel and still lingers in the basement of the hotel. There was also a vault that served as a bank to customers. We were allowed to go inside the old vault and sit in the chairs for a while. The exploring type of kids that Tongue River has, about 3 of us went looking for the hidden stairs to the haunted basement. When we finally found the staircase we were a little skeptical about going down them but finally we decided to go down them anyway. When we got to the bottom it was very cold and pretty dark. We did not find any little ghost girls though. After we went back up the stairs we were glad we went down them in the first place.

This hotel has not been changed at all since the original owners first built it. That is what makes this hotel such a great piece of history. This hotel is very great for people who like artifacts and cool facts about the past. There is even a museum in it with dinosaur bones. This hotel is fantastic for the gutsy type or people who like hidden stair cases that lead to haunted basements.