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

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viii , Map of Bodie, California, vi Doorway interior, xvi Main Street, Bodie, 2 Miners’ Union Hall, in 1891, 7 Arrastra for gold-ore processing, 11 Prospectors, 13 Mustard tin, which became a building material in Bodie, 16 The grave of Alex Nixon, 21 Bodie Bobolinks, wood-bearing mules, 28 The Lousy Miners, 32 A typical hoisting works, 34 Men in a mine shaft with an ore cart, 35 A Bodie assayer’s bench, 38 A Bodie assayer’s glassware, 38 A trio of miners at work, 41 Stamp mill tables, 43 Shaking tables in the Standard Mill, 43 J. S. Cain and friend display the Miners’ Union flag, 44 Miners resting after work, 46 Bodie’s Main Street, crowded with wagons and citizens, 49 Annie Miller’s Occidental Hotel, 50 Sewing machine, 52 Ed Gray with Bodie’s baseball team, 53 Bodieites enjoying carriage rides, 54 Bodie children playing at “holdup” games, 58 Kuzedika people and dog, 59 An abandoned gambling table reflecting Bodie’s famed rowdy nightlife, 63 An abandoned roulette wheel, 65 Men with Bodie whiskey container, 67 J. S. Cain and men on ice skates, 70 , illustrations i l l u s t r a t i o n s , ix Lester Bell and friend in the car that Lester built, 70 The Cain House in the 1800s, 72 The Cain House today, 72 The Cain House interior, 72 James Stuart Cain with an unidentified child and dog, 73 Bodie ladies having a wintry chat, 74 In Bodie, Mother’s work was never done, 75 Eli and Lottie Johl’s house as it stands today in Bodie, 79 A Kuzedika roundhouse in winter, 84 A Kuzedika woman with her baskets, 84 A Bodie Chinese laundry stove, complete with irons, 88 Chinese men in opium den, 89 People waiting for the Wells Fargo Express wagon, 94 People waiting for the Wells Fargo Express wagon, 94 Bodie at its biggest, 100 Men and plentiful wood supply, 109 Unidentified man at the Bodie terminus for the railroad, 109 Bodieites burrowed snow tunnels in heavy winters, 111 Man hauling in hydroelectric parts in the 1920s, 117 A horseless carriage in Bodie, 120 Bodie gas-price sign, 121 Horse-based winter transit, 122 A footrace on the Fourth of July, in the early 1900s, 125 Annie Miller outside of her Occidental Hotel with her staff, 126 Seventy-year-or-more lightbulb, 127 The Gray family’s stamp mill in Bodie Canyon, 128 Mrs. Lauretta Miller Gray and her daughter, 128 Sam Leon and friend in front of Sam’s Bodie Café, 136 Dr. John “Jack” Robson in his Bodie summer home, 138 Bodie Bill in June 1932, 141 Bodie on fire, June 23, 1932, 142 Bodie fire and wind, 142 Man near Bodie’s burning buildings, 142 Vic Cain, skiing off the store roof at Main and Green streets, 144 Sage hens continue to live in Bodie, 146 Gordon Bell, the real Bad Man from Bodie, 146 The Bodie schoolhouse, 149 Bob Bell, the last Bodieite to leave town, 153 Fern Gray Tracy and pals skiing near the schoolhouse, 154 x . i l l u s t r a t i o n s Bob Bell, man on the far right without jacket, and others resting from skiing, 154 Bodie women in their “snowshoes”, 155 Marjorie Dolan Bell Voss, 156 Marjorie Dolan Bell’s child in Bodie, 156 Bodie headstone, 165 Bodie headstones, 166 A watercolor portrait of the Gray family home, 169 Cartoon of Bodie in pop culture, 1995, 171 Home Comfort stove, 174 ...