Digs

Travel Channel Dig Wars A new television program entitled “Dig Wars” on the Travel Channel featured Fort Phantom Hill in an episode that aired nationwide for the first time on July 10, 2013. The “reality television” program featured three teams of experienced “artifact diggers” who searched different historic sites across the U.S., competing for bragging […]

Rendezvous

Fort Phantom Rendezvous, 1999 – 2003. Ray Boeshart (1920-2006) and his daughter Linda gave Rendezvous visitors free rides in their “Butterfield Stagecoach,” which is built to the specifications of an original Wells Fargo stagecoach. The vehicle is pulled by four quarter horses. A Living History Re-enactment of 1840-1875 The 2003 Rendezvous had 106 living historians, […]

Music Video Event

Saving Abel – “Mystify” According to KeyJ.com, Saving Abel is a platinum-selling southern rock band and they shot their latest video (summer 2013) in Abilene. As the video plays, you can see the chimney stacks and the mesquite trees that dot the landscape about the old fort site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VcdQxhgIq8 Saving Abel – “Mystify” Saving Abel […]