Bodie Ghost Town: A reminder of the GoldRush (USA)
Deserted streets, abandonedhouses and the wind, walk freely in undisguised openings of windows and doors -
so it appears to tourist’s ghost town of Bodie (Bodie Ghost Town), one of
America's most famous attractions. It is located in the Sierra Nevada, where at
one time was raging so-called "Gold Rush", which appeared due to this
settlement.
It all began with the fact
that in 1859 in this desert area was found a gold mine. About reserves of gold
ore almost immediately increased full-fledged town and the name he was given a
simple hunky William Bodie, who became a pioneer of local resources.
In the city, populated mainly
by gold diggers, seething life: it works almost, was a railway junction, the
local press published, provided high-quality photo services and drinking places
there were more than seventy. The greater the number of miners learned of
Bodie, the more filled with residents of the city, growing literally by leaps
and bounds.
But as you know, where the
money is - and there is a crime. The fame of the Body went bad - here every day
shots were heard, often committed the robbery and even murder, so this city
rightly called the city of sin.
Survived the most crime-city
of the Wild West of America short - in 1942 it was officially closed. The
reason is simple - the fall in gold prices. The city, which was built specifically
to house miners, suddenly empty and lost its original meaning, so keep him
alive longer make sense.
Today Bodie ghost town is a
historic place where you can wander through the deserted streets and even enter
into the desert areas, where they still remain part of the old furniture and
household items. A layer of dust on the tops and broken furniture suggestive of
the impermanence of life and carry tourists during the gold rush, when the
yellow metal is sometimes valued above human lives.
