Gold was discovered in what became Bodie by a party of prospectors in 1859. The discovery coincided with another at nearby Aurora, Nevada and the “Granddaddy” of all silver mines, the Comstock Lode. While Aurora and the Comstock boomed Bodie remained a small mining camp until 1875 when a mining cave-in exposed a large deposit of paydirt. A second rich deposit was found two years later transformin
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