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Bodie's Gold
Tall Tales & True History from a California Mining Town
by Marguerite Sprague
Sprague's account covers all the details of Bodie life - the mines and the working conditions of the miners; the demimonde of saloons and brothels; the schools, churches, and other institutions of settled life; the lives of its residents, including the native Kuzedika Indians and the Chinese; the role of women in the economy and in local society; and the experiences of the children. The boom ended in 1880, and the town began its long, slow decline, surviving into the twentieth century as a small town supported by a few small but steady mines. Mining ended with World War II, and the last permanent residents moved away. What remained of the town was named a California state park in 1964.
Enhanced with numerous historic photographs and quotations from newspapers of that period, as well as by the reminiscences of former residents, Bodie's Gold is lively reading, a vivid account of the life that once throbbed behind the now-closed doors and empty streets of California's official Gold Rush ghost town.
$34.95
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