Title: Bodie bonanza: the true story of a flamboyant past.
Authors: Loose, Warren.
Publisher: Exposition Press
Year: 1971
Subjects: Bodie (Calif.) History.
Abstract: History of the gold rush in the High Sierra town of Bodie. Gold was discovered in 1852. It was big in the late 1870s and early 1880s, but by 1882, only two mines remained. Few people stayed until the 1930s when it became a park. During its heyday, Bodie was a notorious as a very rough town.
Contents: Two discoveries, 1859 -- Bodie and the Comstock, 1860 -- Rags to riches -- Bodie strike and stampede -- Cauldron of gold fever and hope, 1879 -- Camp in its magic hour, 1880 -- Heyday rolls on, 1881 -- Cruel year -- From then to now.