A night with the ghosts at Fort Caspar

CASPER — If you’re a ghost on the grounds of what formerly was Fort Caspar, you might very well be a young soldier who died during the Battle of Platte Bridge in 1865. You liked playing checkers and maybe smoking a cigar and thinking of a pretty girl back home, all the way on the other side of the Mississippi River.

You could also be a child who drowned in that same vicious river while trying to get to what is now Oregon or Utah or Montana.

You might, if you’re really aware, be in awe that people who now use that same river for recreation and that there’s a bridge that you can walk right acros...