Bodie Gone, A Novel

By Bill Hyde

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632931362
• ISBN13: 9781632931368
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bodie's Here

Bodie Gone by Bill Hyde is a well-researched, clever first novel that deserves to be widely read. The story is a historical novel, where the main character is Tex Garland, a cowboy with gold fever and on his way to Bodie, California, wrapped by a science fiction novel, where the main character is Frances DeQuill, a newspaper reporter on the trail of the story of a lifetime. Without giving away the suprises, let me say that my 4-star rating is based on the fact that the two parts of the novel didn't quite work together for me. The historical novel with a different ending would've been fine with me -or- a better connection between the historical story and the science fiction ending. That said, I enjoyed the story immensely and would recommend it to any fan of the history of the 1800's, the history of gold in western North America, the history of California, and the history of Bodie. Despite some minor sex scenes, the book might be appropriate for outside reading in an American or California history class in a high school. I recommend you take your own trip to Bodie with Bill Hyde's Bodie Gone.

a great romp through the wild west

What a book! Geology, celestial navigation, astronomy, science fiction--all wrapped up in a large cast of real figures from the history of the west. This book is great fun. Anyone who is interested in the west and likes also to ponder the "what if's" and "could be's" of life will find this novel to be a great pleasure as well as a thought provoking read.

A terrific, thoroughly entertaining debut novel

Frances "Tip" DeQuilol is an affluent housewife, mother, and occasional writer for the local newspaper. She is also obsessed with trying to unravel the mystery of strange things that had happened in the nearby ghost town of Bodie, California. Her attempts to chronicle the stories of eight strangers who had struggled to reach Bodie seeking gold, love, adventure or revenge, she comes to find herself being locked up in the Bridgeport jail. but nothing can deter her from investigating a sequence of troubling and unlikely events to their startling conclusion and expose a cover-up that someone wants left buried with the rest of the Old West. Bodie Gone is a terrific, thoroughly entertaining debut novel for author Bill Hyde.