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  Bodie Mine – Western Mining History

  6  · The Bodie Mine is a gold and silver mine located in Mono county, California at an elevation of 8,399 feet

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  Bodie California Photo Gallery – Western Mining …

  The total output of the combined Bodie mines from 1878 to 1941 has been estimated at $70,000,000. Present Appearance. Today, Bodie is a true ghost town situated at the 8,375 foot level in high desert country near Mono Lake. Within 4 miles radius are mountain peaks of 10,000 feet elevation and only fifteen miles to the west, across a treeless ...

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  The Geology and History of the Bodie Mining District

  20191213 · Bodie district because there is an extensive series of faults, which are parallel to the veins of ore. There is also a source of heat, the magma that must have been close to the surface as recently as

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  History of Bodie, California: Mining Ghost Town Comes Alive

  20121114 · Their discovery gave rise to Bodie, one of the West's wildest gold mining boomtowns. By 1880 the phrase "Badman from Bodie" described the town's rambunctious inhabitants, earning the community a reputation for violence that rivaled Tombstone, Deadwood and Dodge City. T oday Bodie is a ghost town, preserved in a "state of …

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  Bodie History: Getting Power to Bodie's Mines and Mills

  201141 · Bodie, California, a mining ghost town, is captured in Michael H. Piatt's thorougly researched history Bodie, 'The Mines are Looking Well', plus unpublished essays.

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  The Gold-Mining Ghost Town of Bodie, California

  2017722 · Bodie’s luck changed in 1876 when the Standard Mining Company discovered a large deposit of gold and silver ore. In 1877, Bodie’s population exploded with prospectors hoping to get rich off of the strike. Houses, saloons and general stores began to pop up along the dirt streets of town to accommodate the influx of citizens. By 1879, …

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  Bodie's Gold: Tall tales and true history from a California mining …

  The Bodie Mining District was established in 1860 after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Bodie's largest boom ended just over twenty years later, but the town survived into the ...

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  The Bad Man from Bodie: A Frontier Legend Rediscovered

  201148 · Bodie was, in its flowering days, known as the wickedest mining camp in the world. It lay there in the Sierra, on the Nevada side, in a desolate, forbidding land, remote from what even then was pleasantly called civilization. Some of the ore from its mines was fabulously rich and the camp‟s fame attracted lawless men from near and far places.

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  Bodie | Gold Mine and Ghost Town | Museum and Tours

  4  · Come walk the deserted streets of a genuine California gold-mining ghost town that once had a population of nearly 10,000 people.

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