{"id":843,"date":"2010-10-08T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T00:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russbishop.com\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2015-06-10T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T19:55:17","slug":"the-wild-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/the-wild-wild-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Wild West"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ghost town of Bodie in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains\u00a0near Bridgeport,\u00a0California is perhaps the best preserved icon of the gold rush days of the American West. Kept in a state of arrested decay by the California State Parks, this national historic landmark is\u00a0a rich source of photographic inspiration and a colorful step back in time.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0its heyday of the 1880s\u00a0Bodie’s population grew to nearly 10,000 and an estimated 100,000 million dollars of gold was culled from the surrounding hills. Gunfights occurred regularly in the streets after long days working the mines, the gambling halls and brothels thrived,\u00a0and the bad men from Bodie quickly became legend across the country.<\/p>\n

Today Bodie\u00a0is quiet except for the occasional tumble weed blowing down Main Street and the creaking buildings that look as if they may\u00a0collapse at any moment.\u00a0But as you look through\u00a0a window at the stocked shelves of the Boone Store or the open books in the school-house it’s not hard to imagine\u00a0the challenging life of the pioneers who flocked to this remote valley in pursuit of\u00a0that precious metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ghost town of Bodie in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains\u00a0near Bridgeport,\u00a0California is perhaps the best preserved icon of the gold rush days of the American West. Kept in a state of arrested decay by the California State Parks, this national historic landmark is\u00a0a rich source of photographic inspiration and a colorful step … <\/p>\n

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