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PATERA, ALAN H. Lundy by Alan H. Patera [cover title]. [Lake Grove, OR: Western Places, 2012.]. 27.2x21.3 cm, pp. 1-88, illustrations, 2 maps, original pictorial cream wrappers, perfect bound. Fourth printing. Issued as "Western Places volume ?, number ?, whole number 22." First published in 2000. Lundy, now a ghost town, is located in the High Sierra north of Tioga Pass and west of Mono Lake, at the head of Lundy Lake. The Homer Mining District, Lundy and vicinity, was carved out of the existing Tioga Mining District in 1879. Lake Canyon, a hanging valley just above Lundy, had the richest mines in the district, including the May Lundy Mine. Includes a 5-page list of "Mines of the Homer Mining District" and a 9-page list of the "People of Lundy" (the names of 960 people known to have resided in or around Lundy, 1880-1884 -- most were gone from the area by 1885), a brief bibliography and an index. For more on mining activity in the region, see Patera's companion work Bennettville and the Tioga mining district (2003). For more on the Homer mining district see Ghost mines of Yosemite by Douglass Hubbard (Fresno, California: Printed in the United States of America by The Awani Press, 1958) and California State Mining Bureau, Eighth Annual Report of the State Mineralogist (1888), pp. 367-371. A nearly fine copy. (#166320).