Built in the Wild West boom and originally known as the Lambert Inn, the St. James is famous for its outlaw-and-lawman guest list (including figures like Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, and Black Jack Ketchum) and the bullet holes still visible overhead in the saloon. The headline haunting is Room 18, kept empty in modern lore because of reports of an “angry” male presence (often connected in legend to Thomas James Wright) with visitors describing sudden cold spots, heavy footsteps, and abrupt mood shifts in the hallway outside. The place’s hook is simple: real frontier violence as the backdrop, with one room treated like a contained hot zone.