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Bodie, som er en forladt
guldgraverby, blev grundlagt i 1859, da guld blev fundet i
området af Waterman "William" Bodey. Byen havde circa
10.000 indbyggere omkring 1880, og kun en brøkdel af byens
huse står tilbage i dag.
Bodie fik ry for at være
den af guldgraverbyerne, der var mest umoralsk, havde de fleste mord,
røverier og skyderier, det mest barske vejrligt, og den
billigste - og dårligste - whiskey. Byen havde på et
tidspunkt 65 værtshuse. En lille pige, hvis familie skulle
flytte til Bodie, skrev i sin dagbog "Farvel Gud, jeg rejser til Bodie."
Guldfeberen svandt sidst i
1800-tallet, og byen blev stort set forladt, da en brand
ødelagde det meste af midtbyen i 1892. De få indbyggere,
der var tilbage i 1932, flygtede, da endnu en brand brændte 90%
af de bygninger, der var tilbage. |
Bodie is a ghost town, which was
established in 1859 when gold was discovered in the area by Waterman
"William" Bodey. The town had about 10,000 residents about
1880, and only a fraction of the town's houses remain today.
Bodie gained a reputation for
being the goldrush town with the most wickedness, the most murders,
robberies, and gun fights, the harshest climate, and the cheapest -
and worst - whiskey. At one time the town boasted 65 saloons. A
little girl, whose family was moving to Bodie, wrote in her diary
"Goodbye, God, I'm going to Bodie."
The goldrush faded out in the
late 1800s, and the town was largely abandoned when a fire destroyed
the majority of downtown Bodie in 1892. The few inhabitants who
remained by 1932 fled when another fire burned 90% of the remaining structures. |
