Bodie Haunted by Tourists Mining for Mystery With History | Los Angeles Times
November 23, 1997 | BRENDAN RILEY – ASSOCIATED PRESS | LATimes.com BODIE, Calif. — Thanks to a buyout of old claims, modern strip mining won’t disrupt tourists’ reveries about life a century ago in this isolated town. The $5-million deal means that quiet will prevail in what was once one …