Identifier: lakeofskylaketah00jamex (find matches)
Title: The lake of the sky, Lake Tahoe, in the high Sierras of California and Nevada; its history, Indians, discovery by Fremont, legendary lore, various namings, physical characteristics, glacial phenomena, geology, single outlet, automobile routes, historic towns, early mining excitements, steamer ride, mineral springs, mountain and lake resorts, trail and camping out trips, summer residences, fishing, hunting, flowers, birds, animals, trees and chapparal (l) with a full account of the Tahoe national forest, the public use of the water of lake Tahoe and much other interesting matter
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Washoe Indians
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif., G.W. James
Contributing Library: Peninsula Library System
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ample, the balance of this chapter is devotedto the trip made in the fall of 1913 with Watson fromTahoe Tavern. TO HELL HOLE AND THE RUBICON RIVER I certainly think I can conjecture with accuracy the wayit received its name. The trails in and out were first madeand used by the wild animals — bear, deer, antelope, moun-tain lions, etc., then by the first Americans — the Indians,and at last, by the white man. Undoubtedly the firstwhites to come over the trails were miners from the George-town and Placerville districts, lured by the marvelous dis-coveries of the Comstock lode in Virginia City. Then in1862-3 came the Squaw Valley stampede and this strikebeing so much nearer than the Comstock naturally at-tracted much attention, especially as the California minesof the Sierra Nevada were becoming less profitable. Oneof these old miners, whose language was more luridly pic-turesque than refined, on coming into the region or goingout of it,— when he struck the rough, rugged, uncertain,
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