"Dear Bodie... I'm sorry that I took this piece of metal from the town. I thought it was all a joke but it wasn't at all. Things are happening that are very hard to explain." From a letter to Bodie, ...

A heavy snowstorm in 1859 killed the town’s founder and harsh winters continue to plague the California ghost town Bodie State Historic Park. The former gold-mining settlement, some 300 miles east of ...

Boone Store and Warehouse was built in 1874 for Harvey Boone, a descendent of Daniel Boone. During a long-ago summer of wandering the Western U.S. in a woefully underpowered 1971 VW bus, we were ...

WESTERN DRAMAS ARE WELL-LOVED, like they have been just about since televisions were first installed in our living rooms. The vast vistas, the colossal cobalt skies that stretch into tomorrow, and the ...

GETTING THERE: Bodie State Historic Park is about 100 miles south of Lake Tahoe. The closest major airport is in Reno, Nev. From Washington, American, Delta and United, among others, offer connecting ...

During a long-ago summer of wandering the Western U.S. in a woefully underpowered 1971 VW bus, we were camped in Yosemite Valley when learning of an exceptional ghost town on the eastern flank of ...