Bodie’s Gold: Tall Tales and True History from a California Mining Town

Contents

, vii List of Illustrations viii Preface xi 1 • Welcome to Bodie 1 2 • The Gold in Them Thar’ Hills 10 3 • The Lousy Miners 31 4 • The Golden Time 48 5 • Bodie’s Social Ladder 69 6 • The Bodie Fever Breaks: 1881 99 7 • Up Home 119 8 • Bodie State Historic Park 168 appendix 1: Once Upon an Ancient Time . . . 177 appendix 2: De Re Metallica Redux 181 appendix 3: The First Bodieites: The Kuzedika 187 appendix 4: When a Bodie Meets a Bodie 196 Notes 199 References 205 Index 215 , contents ...