Big Bad Bodie High Sierra Ghost Town

Download Big Bad Bodie High Sierra Ghost Town full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Big Bad Bodie High Sierra Ghost Town ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Big Bad Bodie: High Sierra Ghost Town

Author : Doug Brodie
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462833845
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Big Bad Bodie: High Sierra Ghost Town by : Doug Brodie

Download or read book Big Bad Bodie: High Sierra Ghost Town written by Doug Brodie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mid-19th century mining town of Bodie, California located at 8,369 feet, atop the Sierra Nevada Mountains, just 3 1/2 miles from the Nevada border, was considered one of the richest gold and silver mining towns in the west. Geologists who know of its present rich ore deposits, say it could have been again, but since it became a California historic state park in 1962, that possibility was terminated. The old town, now the best preserved ghost town in the Nation, is maintained in a state of arrested decay by the State of California, meaning it will never be restored to its once rough and tough condition of the 1870s, but it is prevented from further deterioration through a system of constant repair. The public is encouraged to visit the old town, and this book is a compilation of stories, news items, historic information, and reports of its past, some true, some possibly true, and some probably outright lies by citizens of the past and news reporters who wrote for the many old newspapers that described life as it was lived in the years immediately following the Civil War. Authors Jim Watson, photographer, and Doug Brodie, former newspaper reporter, have obtained items heretofore never explained nor described in writings about the old town. Their research has made this book a one of a kind publication.

Bodie: The Gold-mining Ghost Town

Author : Kari Schuetz
Publisher : Bellwether Media
ISBN 13 : 1681034247
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bodie: The Gold-mining Ghost Town by : Kari Schuetz

Download or read book Bodie: The Gold-mining Ghost Town written by Kari Schuetz and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild reputation of Bodie was unmatched in the Old West. The California gold-mining town attracted a rough crowd. Bodie had gamblers, drinkers, gunslingers, and robbers all after riches. This high-interest childrenÕs title includes a wealth of information about the gold rush that once made Bodie a Òget richÓ destination.

Bodie

Author : Kevin Blake
Publisher : Bearport Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781627245241
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (452 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bodie by : Kevin Blake

Download or read book Bodie written by Kevin Blake and published by Bearport Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2015 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the history of Bodie, California which began as a Gold Rush boomtown and became a cursed ghost town.

Ghost Towns of Northern California

Author : Susan Drew, Philip Varney, John Drew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610600804
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ghost Towns of Northern California by : Susan Drew, Philip Varney, John Drew

Download or read book Ghost Towns of Northern California written by Susan Drew, Philip Varney, John Drew and published by . This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel guide to northern California's 50 deserted mining towns, plus the "ghost prison" of Alcatraz and a couple of Chinese fishing villages in the San Francisco Bay area.

Pop Culture Places [3 volumes]

Author : Gladys L. Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313398836
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Pop Culture Places [3 volumes] by : Gladys L. Knight

Download or read book Pop Culture Places [3 volumes] written by Gladys L. Knight and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume reference set explores the history, relevance, and significance of pop culture locations in the United States—places that have captured the imagination of the American people and reflect the diversity of the nation. Pop Culture Places: An Encyclopedia of Places in American Popular Culture serves as a resource for high school and college students as well as adult readers that contains more than 350 entries on a broad assortment of popular places in America. Covering places from Ellis Island to Fisherman's Wharf, the entries reflect the tremendous variety of sites, historical and modern, emphasizing the immense diversity and historical development of our nation. Readers will gain an appreciation of the historical, social, and cultural impact of each location and better understand how America has come to be a nation and evolved culturally through the lens of popular places. Approximately 200 sidebars serve to highlight interesting facts while images throughout the book depict the places described in the text. Each entry supplies a brief bibliography that directs students to print and electronic sources of additional information.

Discovering Bodie

Author : Nick Gariaeff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984363452
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (634 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Discovering Bodie by : Nick Gariaeff

Download or read book Discovering Bodie written by Nick Gariaeff and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In depth information on a number of past residents of the High Sierra ghost town Bodie, California. Contemporary photographs compliment the book"--

Cowboy Culture

Author : Sandy Powell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510742271
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cowboy Culture by : Sandy Powell

Download or read book Cowboy Culture written by Sandy Powell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Photographic Look at the Old West That Is Alive and Well in California It was a thrilling time, when wagon trains and stagecoaches raced to the California goldfields – on the trail where the dust and campfire smoke met. In the shadow of the towering Sierra Nevada, the real Wild West was born. And it still lives today, in the extraordinary people who pack mule-strings into the mountains, race over mountain passes on horseback while recreating the Pony Express, and drive cattle out of the high country each fall. It lives on beneath the massive wheels of the twenty-mule-team wagons and teams of draft horses pulling historic wagons over a mountain pass. Sit back and enjoy this fascinating journey as the Old West comes alive in a book filled with unique western images, inspiring stories from the trail, memorable cowboy poetry, and some western history.

Alliance Rises in the West

Author : Charlotte K. Sunseri
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803299567
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Alliance Rises in the West by : Charlotte K. Sunseri

Download or read book Alliance Rises in the West written by Charlotte K. Sunseri and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how pluralistic communities thrived in California’s mining hinterland as well as how immigrants and California Natives mobilized and mitigated power inequalities through their daily experiences of identity expression, community cohesion, and labor relations.

Shotguns and Stagecoaches

Author : John Boessenecker
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1250184886
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shotguns and Stagecoaches by : John Boessenecker

Download or read book Shotguns and Stagecoaches written by John Boessenecker and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains the Western frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns and an occasional revolver, these express messengers guarded valuable cargo through lawless terrain. They were tough, fighting men who risked their lives every time they climbed into the front boot of a Concord coach. Boessenecker introduces soon-to-be iconic personalities like "Chips" Hodgkins, an express rider known for his white mule and his ability to outrace his competitors, and Henry Johnson, the first Wells Fargo detective. Their lives weren't just one shootout after another—their encounters with desperadoes were won just as often with quick wits and memorized-by-heart knowledge of the land. The highway robbers also get their due. It wouldn't be a book about the Wild West without Black Bart, the most infamous stagecoach robber of all time, and Butch Cassidy's gang, America's most legendary train robbers. Through the Gold Rush and the early days of delivery with horses and saddlebags, to the heyday of stagecoaches and huge shipments of gold, and finally the rise of the railroad and the robbers who concocted unheard-of schemes to loot trains, Wells Fargo always had courageous men to protect its treasure. Their unforgettable bravery and ingenuity make this book a thrilling read.

The Quick, the Dead and the Revived

Author : Joseph Maddrey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476625492
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Quick, the Dead and the Revived by : Joseph Maddrey

Download or read book The Quick, the Dead and the Revived written by Joseph Maddrey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well more than a century, Western films have embodied the United States’ most fundamental doctrine—expansionism—and depicted, in a uniquely American way, the archetypal battle between good and evil. Westerns also depict a country defined and re-defined by complex crises. World War II transformed the genre as well as the nation’s identity. Since then, Hollywood filmmakers have been fighting America’s ideological wars onscreen by translating modern-day politics into the timeless mythology of the Old West. This book surveys the most iconic and influential Westerns, examines Hollywood stars and their political stripes and reveals the familiar Western tropes—which became elements in popular action, science fiction and horror films. This then sets the stage for the Western revival of the 1990s and a period of reinvention in the 21st century. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Ghost Towns of California

Author : Donald C. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ghost Towns of California by : Donald C. Miller

Download or read book Ghost Towns of California written by Donald C. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ghost Towns of the American West

Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054756189X
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ghost Towns of the American West by : Raymond Bial

Download or read book Ghost Towns of the American West written by Raymond Bial and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-02-26 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory’s Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States. Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial’s narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.

Goodbye God, I'm Going to Bodie

Author : Calamity Jan
Publisher : WildWest Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780972180009
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Goodbye God, I'm Going to Bodie by : Calamity Jan

Download or read book Goodbye God, I'm Going to Bodie written by Calamity Jan and published by WildWest Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Meggie and Paige and a kid named Johnny uncover the missing diary in the ghost town of Bodie, California, they have no idea what secrets had been buried for over a hundred years. Bodie--once known as the Wildest Mining Camp in the West--comes to life through the words of the unknown girl whose words, Goodbye God, I'm going to Bodie have become a legend. The Ghostowners set out to discover Anna's secrets, but uncover a whole lot more than they had bargained for.

Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel

Author : Diana C. Archibald
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826264107
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel by : Diana C. Archibald

Download or read book Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel written by Diana C. Archibald and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Badman from Bodie and the Gold Rings

Author : Lariat Quinn
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480940518
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Badman from Bodie and the Gold Rings by : Lariat Quinn

Download or read book Badman from Bodie and the Gold Rings written by Lariat Quinn and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badman from Bodie and the Gold Rings By: Lariat Quinn Welcome to Bodie. It’s a rowdy town deep in the Sierra Nevadas, overrun with gold miners, gamblers, and general riffraff, with a dead body every day before breakfast. Into the town rides the Badman, with no name, no memory, no past. Just a draw that makes lightning look slow. As the Badman finds himself taking down villains of all types, he discovers a purpose. But it’s when he visits the angry Paiute tribe, victims of the greedy miners, he learns a terrible curse has been put on Bodie. The way to peace is drenched in blood. And even a bad man has a code of honor. More than a century later the town of Bodie is abandoned. Some say it’s haunted by the ghosts of the town’s inhabitants. But the hills are rich with gold and uranium... will you dare the curse of the Badman from Bodie?

Ghost Towns of the Old West

Author : Gary Topping
Publisher : BDD Promotional Books Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ghost Towns of the Old West by : Gary Topping

Download or read book Ghost Towns of the Old West written by Gary Topping and published by BDD Promotional Books Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever the reasons, the fascination is undeniable and GHOST TOWNS OF THE OLD WEST is sure to please even the most ardent ghost town aficionado. Featuring a lively, informative text by historian Gary Topping and more than 150 color photographs by noted California photographer Lynn Radeka--all commissioned especially for this volume--this handsome book surveys 18 of the richest, wickedest, and most colorful communities on the frontier.

Bodie Gone

Author : Bill Hyde
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865343177
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (431 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bodie Gone by : Bill Hyde

Download or read book Bodie Gone written by Bill Hyde and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Tip DeQuill -- affluent housewife, mother, and sometimes newspaper writer -- was mortified when the iron door clanked shut. Yes, she was locked up in the Bridgeport jail. Imprisonment marked the beginning of the price she would pay for investigating a sequence of ominous, unlikely events that had occurred close to Bridgeport and the nearby ghost town of Bodie, California.Frances had been obsessed trying to unravel the mystery of the strange things that had happened, much like prospectors who had been driven to seek Bodie's Veda Madre. No warnings, no threats, and not even jail could divert her attention. Her quest for a story would take her back in time to the gold rush days and urge her to chronicle the stories of eight strangers who had struggled to reach Bodie seeking gold, love, lust, adventure or revenge. Her strangers would interact with some of the best known characters from the Old West and they would experience many historical happenings. But nothing they suffered would prepare them for their bizarre departure from Bodie.Would Frances find the truth? Could she escape her hunters? Would she have time to expose the cover-up and find the real meaning of Bodie Gone?