The Story of Bodie
first edition Hardcover
1956 · San Francisco
by Cain, Ella M.
San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Donald I. Segerstrom. xi, [1], 196pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs; index. Orange cloth lettered in black on front cover. A very fine copy. The full story of this once thriving California ghost town in Mono County. This is one of the earliest and best accounts of this rough-and-tumble mining town, now a California State Park. The author's father was elected sheriff of Mono County. The author was born in Bodie in 1882, taught grammar school there, and married (1904) David Victor Cain whose family had been prominent residents of Bodie since 1879.. (Inventory #: 8139)