Bodie - the Wild West was never wilder than here Bodie is a former gold mining town which saw its heydays during the gold rush. Those were the days of the Wild West. If you have seen western movies you get an idea of what things were like in Bodie. Bodie really was a wild and violent place in the late 19th century. Not all the town was wild though. One side of the town was safe and decent. The people who lived there were law abiding citizens and they went to church on Sundays and their children went to school just like any middle class children in any town would. On the other side of the town there was a totally different thing going on though. That's where the pubs and the brothels were and
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