CHAPTER D

JOSEPH LECONTE AT LAKE TAHOE

Joseph LeConte, from whom LeConte Lake is named, the best-beloved professor of the University of California, and its most noted geologist, in the year 1870 started out with a group of students of his geology classes, and made a series of _Ramblings in the High Sierras_. These were privately printed in 1875, and from a copy given to me many years ago by the distinguished author, I make the following extracts on Lake Tahoe:

_August_ 20, (1870). I am cook to-day. I therefore got up at daybreak and prepared breakfast while the rest enjoyed their morning snooze. After breakfast we hired a sail-boat, partly to fish, but mainly to enjoy a sail on this beautiful Lake.

Oh! the exquisite beauty of this Lake--its clear waters, emerald-green, and the deepest ultramarine blue; its pure shores, rocky or cleanest gravel, so clean that the chafing of the waves does not stain in the least the bright clearness of the waters; the high granite mountains, with serried peaks, which stand close around its very shore to guard its crystal purity,--this Lake, not _among_, but _on_, the mountains, lifted six thousand feet towards the deep-blue overarching sky, whose image it reflects! We tried to fish for trout, but partly because the speed of the sail-boat could not be controlled, and partly because we enjoyed the scene far more than the fishing, we were unsuccessful, and soon gave it up. We sailed some six or eight miles, and landed in a beautiful cove on the Nevada side. Shall we go in swimming? Newspapers in San Francisco say there is something peculiar in the waters of this high mountain Lake. It is so light, they say, that logs of timber sink immediately, and bodies of drowned animals never rise; that it is impossible to swim in it; that, essaying to do so, many good swimmers have been drowned. These facts are well attested by newspaper scientists, and therefore not doubted by newspaper readers. Since leaving Oakland, I have been often asked by the young men the scientific explanation of so singular a fact. I have uniformly answered, "We will try scientific experiments when we arrive there." That time had come. "Now then, boys," I cried, "for the scientific experiment I promised you!" I immediately plunged in head-foremost and struck out boldly. I then threw myself on my back, and lay on the surface with ray limbs extended and motionless for ten minutes, breathing quietly the while. All the good swimmers quickly followed. It is as easy to swim and float in this as in any other water. Lightness from diminished atmospheric pressure? Nonsense! In an almost incompressible liquid like water, the diminished density produced by diminished pressure would be more than counterbalanced by increased density produced by cold.

After our swim, we again launched our boat, and sailed out into the very middle of the Lake. The wind had become very high, and the waves quite formidable. We shipped wave after wave, so that those of us who were sitting in the bows got drenched. It was very exciting. The wind became still higher; several of the party got very sick, and two of them _cascaded_. I was not in the least affected, but, on the contrary, enjoyed the sail very much. About 2 P.M. we concluded it was time to return, and therefore tacked about for camp.

The wind was now dead ahead, and blowing very hard. The boat was a very bad sailer, and so were _we_. We beat up against the wind a long time, and made but little headway. Finally, having concluded we would save time and patience by doing so, we ran ashore on the beach about a mile from camp and towed the boat home. The owner of the boat told us that _he_ would not have risked the boat or his life in the middle of the Lake on such a day. "Where ignorance is bliss," etc.

After a hearty supper we gathered around the fire, and the young men sang in chorus until bedtime. "Now then, boys," cried I, "for a huge camp-fire, for it will be cold tonight!" We all scattered in the woods, and every man returned with a log, and soon the leaping blaze seemed to overtop the pines. We all lay around, with our feet to the fire, and soon sank into deep sleep.

_August 21_. Sunday at Tahoe! I wish I could spend it in perfect quiet. But my underclothes must be changed. Cleanliness is a Sunday duty. Some washing is necessary. Some of the party went fishing to-day. The rest of us remained in camp and mended or washed clothes.

At 12 M. I went out alone, and sat on the shore of the Lake, with the waves breaking at my feet. How brightly emerald-green the waters near the shore, and how deeply and purely blue in the distance! The line of demarcation is very distinct, showing that the bottom drops off suddenly. How distinct the mountains and cliffs all around the Lake; only lightly tinged with blue on the farther side, though more than twenty miles distant!

How greatly is one's sense of beauty affected by association! Lake Mono is surrounded by much grander and more varied mountain scenery than this; its waters are also very clear, and it has the advantage of several very picturesque islands; but the dead volcanoes, the wastes of volcanic sand and ashes covered only by interminable sagebrush, the bitter, alkaline, dead, slimy waters, in which nothing but worms live; the insects and flies which swarm on its surface, and which are thrown upon its shore in such quantities as to infect the air,--all these produce a sense of desolation and death which is painful; it destroys entirely the beauty of the lake itself; it unconsciously mingles with and alloys the pure enjoyment of the incomparable mountain scenery in its vicinity. On the contrary, the deep-blue, pure waters of Lake Tahoe, rivaling in purity and blueness the sky itself; its clear, bright emerald shore-waters, breaking snow-white on its clean rock and gravel shores; the Lake basin, not on a plain, with mountain scenery in the distance, but counter-sunk in the mountain's top itself,--these produce a never-ceasing and ever-increasing sense of joy, which naturally grows into love. There would seem to be no beauty except as associated with human life and connected with a sense of fitness for human happiness. Natural beauty is but the type of spiritual beauty. Enjoyed a very refreshing swim in the Lake this afternoon. The water is much less cold than that of Lake Tenaya or the Tuolumne River, or even the Nevada River.

The party which went out fishing returned with a very large trout. It was delicious.

I observe on the Lake ducks, gulls, terns, etc., and about it many sandhill cranes--the white species, the clanging cry of these sounds pleasant to me by early association.

_August 22_. Nothing to do to-day. Would be glad to sail on the Lake or fish, but too expensive hiring boats. Our funds are nearly exhausted. Would be glad to start for home, but one of our party--Pomroy--has gone to Carson City, and we must wait for him.

I went down alone to the Lake, sat down on the shore and enjoyed the scene. Nothing to do, my thoughts to-day naturally went to the dear ones at home. Oh! how I wish they could be here and enjoy with me this lovely Lake! I could dream away my life here with those I love. How delicious a dream! Of all the places I have yet seen, this is the one I could longest enjoy and love the most. Reclining thus in the shade, on the clean white sand, the waves rippling at my feet, with thoughts of Lake Tahoe and of my loved ones mingling in my mind, I fell into a delicious doze. After my doze I returned to camp, to dinner.

About 5 P.M. took another and last swim in the Lake.

Pomroy, who went to Carson, returned 7 P.M. After supper, again singing in chorus, and then the glorious campfire.

CHAPTER E

JOHN VANCE CHENEY AT LAKE TAHOE

One of America's poets who long lived in California, and then, after an honorable and useful sojourn as Director of one of the important libraries of the East, returned to spend the remainder of his days--John Vance Cheney--in 1882, made the trip to Lake Tahoe by stage from Truckee, and, among other fine pieces of description, wrote the following which appeared in _Lippincott's_ for August, 1883:

One more ascent has been made, one more turn rounded, and behold, from an open elevation, close upon its shore, Lake Tahoe in all its calm beauty bursts suddenly upon the sight. Nestled among the snowy summit-peaks of the Sierra Nevada, more than six thousand feet above sea-level, it lies in placid transparency. The surrounding heights are all the more pleasing to the eye because of their lingering winter-cover; and as we gaze upon the Lake, unruffled by the gentlest breeze, we marvel at the quiet,--almost supernatural,--radiancy of the scene. Lakes in other lands may present greater beauty of artificial setting,--beauty dependent largely upon picturesqueness, where vineyards and ivied ruins heighten the effect of natural environment,--but for nature pure and simple, for chaste beauty and native grandeur, one will hesitate before naming the rival of Lake Tahoe. This singularly impressive sheet of water, one of the highest in the world, gains an indescribable but easily-perceived charm by its remoteness, its high, serene, crystal isolation. Its lights and shades, its moods and passions, are changing, rapid, and free as the way of the wind.

A true child of nature, it varies ever, from hour to hour enchanting with new and strange fascination. The thousand voices of the lofty Sierra call to it, and it answers; all the colors of the rainbow gather upon it, receiving in their turn affectionate recognition. Man has meddled with it little more than with the sky; the primeval spell is upon it, the hush, the solitude of the old gods. The breath of powers invisible, awful, rouse it to the sublimity of untamable energy; again, hush it into deepest slumber. Night and day it is guarded, seemingly, by wonder-working forces known to man only through the uncertain medium of the imagination. The traveler who looks upon Lake Tahoe for a few hours only learns little of its rich variety. Like all things wild and shy, it must be approached slowly and with patience.

But our sketch must not include more than the hasty glimpses of a day. The stage conveyed us directly to the wharf, which we reached at ten o'clock, having accomplished our fourteen mile ride up the valley in about two and a half hours. As we boarded the little steamer awaiting us and looked over its side into the water below, the immediate shock of surprise cannot be well described. Every pebble at the bottom showed as distinctly as if held in the open hand. We had all seen clear water before, but, as a severe but unscholarly sufferer once said of his rheumatism, "never such as _these_." The day being perfect, no breeze stirring, and the Lake without a ripple, the gravelly bottom continued visible when we had steamed out to a point where the water reached a depth of eighty feet. Two gentlemen on board who had made a leisurely trip round the world and were now on their way home to England, remarked that they had seen but one sheet of water (a lake in Japan) of anything like equal transparency. It is presumed that they had not visited Green Lake, Colorado.

Our course lay along the California shore, toward its southern extremity, the steamer stopping at several points for exchange of mail. These stopping places are all summer-resorts, where the guests, snugly housed at the base of the mountain-range, divide the time between lounging or rambling under the shadow of the tall pines and angling for the famous Tahoe trout in the brightness of the open Lake. All looked inviting, but we were not wholly enchanted until, gliding past many a snowy peak, we suddenly changed course and put into Emerald Bay. This little bay, or rather lake in itself, about three miles in length, is the gem of the Tahoe scenery. Through its narrow entrance, formed by perpendicular cliffs some two thousand feet high, we moved on toward an island of rock and a succession of flashing waterfalls beyond.

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For a time the dazzling mountain-crests and glistening gorges absorbed attention. So high, white, silent! We longed to be upon the loftiest one, from the top of which can be seen thirteen charming little mountain-lakes, midair jewels, varying in feature according to the situation. Two of these lakes, widely dissimilar in character, are but two miles distant from Tallac House, a comfortable resort at the base of the noble peak from which it takes its name.

But not even the crystal summit ridges delighted us as did the changing waters in the path of the steamer. Following immediately upon the transparency preserved to a depth of some eighty feet, a blur passed over the surface. This changed by imperceptible degrees to a light green. The green, again, speedily deepened, shading into a light blue; and finally, in deepest water (where the Lake is all but fathomless), the color becomes so densely blue that we could not believe our eyes. Indigo itself was outdone. Description fails; the blue deep of Tahoe must be seen to be appreciated.

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The ride from Glenwood back to Tahoe City was not so calm. The Lake was considerably agitated; less so, however, than on the following day, when, as we learned afterward, our little steamer lost its rudder. Owing to the gorges in the mountains upon either side, through which winds rush unexpectedly, Tahoe has her dangers. She is a wild, wayward child, but thoroughly lovable throughout all her frowns as well as smiles, equally captivating in her moments of unconquerable willfulness as in her seasons of perfect submission. Reaching Tahoe City at four o'clock, we found the stage standing in readiness, and, with a last, hasty look at the Lake, we were soon on our way by the banks of the Truckee, back to town.

CHAPTER F

THE RESORTS OF LAKE TAHOE

In the body of this book I have given full account of some of the resorts of the Tahoe region, including Deer Park Springs, Tahoe Tavern, Fallen Leaf Lodge, Cathedral Park, Glen Alpine Springs, Al-Tahoe, Lakeside, Glenbrook and Carnelian Bay.

But these are by no means all the resorts of the Bay, and each year sees additions and changes. Hence I have deemed it well briefly to describe those resorts that are in operation at the time this volume is issued.

It should be remembered that each resort issues its own descriptive folder, copies of which may be obtained from the ticket offices of the Southern Pacific Railway, the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company, or the Peck-Judah Information Bureau, as well as from its own office. All the resorts not already described in their respective chapters are reached by steamer on its circuit around the Lake, as follows:

HOMEWOOD

The first place for the steamer after leaving the Tavern is Homewood, a comparatively new resort, but already popular and successful, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Jost. This is six miles from Tahoe City. The hotel was built in 1913 and has hot and cold water piped to all rooms.

In addition there are cottages of two and three rooms, which, together with single and double tents, provide for every taste and purse. The tents are protected by flies, have solid boarded floors, are well carpeted, and afford the fullest opportunity for out-door sleeping. Homewood possesses a gently sloping and perfectly safe bathing beach for adults and children. It also boasts a unique feature in an open-air dancing platform, with old-fashioned music. It owns its power-boat for excursions on the Lake, and its fleet of row-and fishing-boats. A campfire is lighted nightly during the season, and song and story cheer the merry hours along.

For circulars address A.W. Jost, Homewood, Lake Tahoe, Calif.

MCKINNEY'S

Three and a half to four miles beyond Homewood is McKinney's. This is one of the oldest and best-established resorts on the Lake, having been founded and long conducted by that pioneer of Lake Tahoe, J.W. McKinney, as fully related elsewhere. It is now under the management of Murphy Brothers and Morgan, and is essentially a place that is popular with the crowd. The resort was built, as are all the older places, to meet ever-increasing needs, the main hotel being supplemented by numerous cottages and tents. McKinney's has a fine new dancing-hall, dark-room for amateur photographers, iron and magnesia springs, fleet of fishing- and motor-boats, free fishing-tackle, etc., and during the season its accommodation for two hundred guests is more than taxed to the limit.

For circular address Murphy Brothers and Morgan, McKinney's, Lake Tahoe, Calif.

MOANA VILLA

The next steamer stopping-place, about two hundred yards from McKinney's is Moana Villa, the comfortable, unpretentious and homelike resort conducted by Mr. and Mrs. R. Colwell, who are also the owners of Rubicon Springs, reached by daily stage during the summer season, nine miles from McKinney's.

Owning its own ranch in the mountains where milk, cream, butter, eggs, poultry and game are plentiful, the table at Moana Villa is provided with all the substantials and luxuries, cooked and served in home style.

One great advantage is offered to guests at Moana Villa, viz.: they may divide their time between it and Rubicon Springs, as both are under the same ownership and management.

The new Scenic Automobile Boulevard passes through the 700 acres of delightful surroundings which belong to the place. The best fishing grounds on Lake Tahoe are close by and numerous smaller mountain lakes and streams afford excellent fly fishing. Deer, bear, grouse, quail, ducks, geese and other game abound in the locality.

Hunting, fishing, bathing, boating, dancing, launch trips, beautiful walks and drives and numerous games give ample opportunity for amusement and recreation. The assembly hall and office is of logs. Sleeping accommodations in cottages and tents or out of doors if desired. Water is piped from a clear mountain spring, and an equipment of up-to-date sanitary plumbing, bath and toilet appliances has been lately installed.

For circular address R. Colwell, Moana Villa, Lake Tahoe, Calif.

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POMIN'S

A little beyond Moana Villa is Pomin's, the latest acquisition to the resorts of the Lake, having been opened in 1914. The hotel is an attractive, well-equipped, up-to-date structure, located on a knoll 150 feet from the Lake, and is surrounded by pines. Enclosed verandas, open fires in lobby and dining-rooms, electric lights, hot and cold water in all the rooms, tents and cottages are some of the conveniences and luxuries.

There is an attractive club-house on the Lake Shore. For circular address Frank J. Pomin, Pomin's, Lake Tahoe, Calif.

Emerald Bay Camp and Al-Tahoe have both been described in their respective chapters.

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TALLAC

As explained in Chapter XVIII, Tallac House was built by E.J. (Lucky) Baldwin. For many years it was the principal hotel on the Lake, but what was a fine and superior hotel 25 years ago did not satisfy the demands of modern patrons. Hence some years ago Mr. Baldwin planned to erect a new hotel near the site of the old one. Unfortunately the work was not much more than begun when he died and nothing has been done to it since.

The hotel is now under the management of a San Francisco firm.

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PINE FOREST INN

Built, as its name implies, in a pine grove of trees, this is one of the older resorts of the Lake. It is unique in that it keeps open throughout the year. Like the rest of the resorts of its class it has hotel and dining-room with cottages and tents. Under its new management a new casino has been built, and every room and cottage, etc., equipped with electric lights. Especial attention is given to camping-, fishing-, and hunting-parties. It is on the State Highway between Placerville and Carson City, Nevada, and therefore makes all provision for automobilists.

For circular address Lawrence & Comstock, Pine Forest Inn, Tallac P.O., Calif.

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CAMP BELL

Located between Al Tahoe and Bijou is Camp Bell, conducted by Russell W. Bell. The camp consists of tents and an open-air dining-room.

For circular address Russell W. Bell, 128 Edgewood Ave., San Francisco, Calif.

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BIJOU INN

This is another well-known Inn and Camp at the southeastern end of the Lake. It is on the Lake Shore Drive near to the State Highway and close to Freel's and the other mountain peaks of this group. The beach in front of Bijou is of clean white sand, with a gentle slope, offering excellent facilities for bathing.

For circular address W.F. Conolley, Bijou, Lake Tahoe, Calif.

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Lakeside Park and Glenwood have each been described in their respective chapters.

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BROCKWAYS

This old-established and popular hot-springs resort is on the north end of the Lake, beautifully situated on State-Line Point between Crystal and Agate Bays. The hot springs and mineral swimming-pool here have a tested quality which thousands of guests can testify to, and they are annually patronized by a large number. The resort and springs are under the management of the owner.

For circular, address F.B. Alverson, Brockways, Lake Tahoe, Calif.

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TAHOE VISTA

On the shores of Agate Bay a new resort was started two years ago, known as Tahoe Vista. It has a modern hotel, equipped for convenience and comfort.

Bathing, boating and fishing in Agate Bay at Tahoe Vista is at its best. The white sanded beach is broad and is safe to the smallest child, the bay being shallow for a distance of five hundred feet from its edge and affording a temperature to the water that is more pleasant than to be found at any other part of the Lake.

The fame of Lake Tahoe's trout fishing is world renowned, and in Agate Bay that sport is superior. One of the public fish hatcheries is located near Tahoe Vista, insuring a constant supply of the most favored varieties of game fish. Twenty-five thousand Eastern brook trout were recently placed in Griff Creek, a lively little stream that dances through the glens of Tahoe Vista.

To those who wish to own their own homes on the Lake Tahoe Vista affords excellent opportunities in that lots are for sale at moderate rates. A direct automobile road connects with Truckee, and also with Tahoe Tavern.

For circular address Manager Hotel, Tahoe Vista, Calif.

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Carnelian Bay and its attractions are fully described in its own chapter.

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TAHOE CITY

This is the starting and the ending point of the steamer trip around the Lake. It is a historic place, the first town founded on Lake Tahoe, and destined ultimately to come into large importance. There is a small hotel, together with housekeeping cottages, and free camping facilities.

For full particulars address Tahoe Development Co., Tahoe, Calif.

INDEX

Titles of Books are in _Italics_.

Book chapters are in SMALL CAPITALS.

(q)=quoted.

Agassiz Peak Agate Bay Alleghany Alpha Alpine Spruce Alta AL TAHOE Alverson, F.B. _American Journal of Science and Art_ River (see N. & S. Forks) Anderson Peak Angel, Myron Angora Range Lakes ANIMALS AND BIRDS OF T. REGION Antelope Valley Armstrong, Mrs. Auburn Audrian Lake AUTOMOBILE ROUTE, THE WISHBONE

Baldwin, E.J. Bannister, L.H. Barker's Peak, Pass., etc. Basketry Indian Bath Bear Bear Creek Lake River Divide Valley Bell, Camp Bigelow, R.L.P. Bigler, Lake Tahoe Named Bijou BIRDS AND ANIMALS OF T. REGION Bixby Lake Blackwood Creek Bliss and Yerington Bloody Canyon Glacier Bloomfield, North Blue Canyon Blue Jays Boating Boca Bonpland, Amade Bricknell & Kinger Brockways Brown, Sam Browning, R. (q) Buck Island Lake Burton Creek

California Ditch Camino Camping, Free CAMPING OUT TRIPS IN T. REGION Campoodie, Indians CARNELIAN BAY AND T. COUNTRY CLUB Carson City Falls Kit Pass River Sink Cascade Lake Glacier Castle Peak Cathedral Peak Park Cave Rock Cedar, Incense Celios Central Pacific Ry. Chandler, Miss Katherine CHAPARRAL OF T. REGION Chase, Smeaton (q) Cheney, John Vance (q) Chipmunk Chips Flat Church, J.E., Jr., (q) "Pap" Cisco Claraville Clement, Ephraim Coburn Station (see Truckee) Cohn, A. Cold Stream Cole, D.W. Coleman Valley Colfax Colgate Columbia River Colwell, R. Comstock Lode Conolley, W.F. _Conroy, Gabriel_ Country Club, Tahoe Crags, The Creeks of Lake T. Crystal Bay Range

Dalles of Columbia River Damascus Dat-so-la-le Deer Creek PARK SPRINGS Delano, L.P. Desolation Valley Devil's Playground Pulpit De Young, M.H. Diamond Springs Dick, Capt. Digger Pine Donner Creek George Jacob LAKE Glacier Road. Downieville Dubliss, Mt. Dutch Flat Swindle

Eagle Bird Creek Falls Lake Point Echo Lakes Edgewoods Edith Peak Edmonds, Mark W. El Dorado Forest Elevations Ellis, Jock Peak Emerald Bay AND CAMP Freezes Glacier How Formed Island Legend of Emigrant Gap Road Erosion, Glacial Esmeralda Falls Essex

Fallen Leaf Glacier LAKE Lodge Fir, Red Shasta White Fire, How Indians Got Fish, Hatchery FISHING IN TAHOE LAKES Five Lakes Creek Floriston Flower Display FLOWERS OF TAHOE REGION Folsom Forest _Conditions in Sierra Nevada_ (q) Hill Divide Rangers TAHOE NATIONAL Freel's Peak Freeport Freezing of Lake Tahoe FREMONT AND THE DISCOVERY OF TAHOE Discovers Pyramid Lake Truckee River Explorations HOWITZER AND LAKE T. Fulda Fulton, R.L.

Gardnerville, Legend of General Creek Electric Co. Genoa Peak GEOLOGY OF LAKE TAHOE Georgetown Deltas Divide Junction Ghirardelli's Chocolate Gilmore Lake Nathan GLACIAL HISTORY OF T. REGION Lake Valley Glen Alpine Canyon Falls SPRINGS GLENBROOK Gold Run Goodyear's Bar Granite Chief Peak Graniteville Grant's Crackers Grass Valley Grecian Bay Greek George Grizzly Gulch Peak Grove, The

Hale, Fort Hangtown Harte, Bret Hastings, Lansford W. Hay Press Meadows Hazlett, Mr. Heather Lake Hell Hole Little Hellman, I. _Heroes of California_ Hickey, Frances A. Highland Peak HISTORIC TAHOE TOWNS Hobart Mills Holladay, Ben Homewood Honey Lake Hope Valley Hopkins, Sarah W. Horlich's Tablets, &c. HOWITZER, Fremont AND TAHOE Humboldt River Hunsaker Bros. Hydraulic Mines

Illinoistown (see Colfax) Incense Cedar Incline Independence Indestructo Trunk INDIANS OF LAKE TAHOE How originated LEGENDS OF T. REGION _Innocents Abroad_ (q) Iowa Hill

Jackson, An Indian Jepson, W.L. (q) Job's Peak Sister Peak Jost, A.W. Juniper, Western

Kent Ranger Station King, Killed THOS. STARR AT L. TAHOE Kingsbury Grade King's Canyon Klaraet Lake Knight, Wm. H. (q) Knox Knoxville Kohl, C.F. Kyburgs

Lake, Hank Richards' of the Sky, Why the of the Woods Pyramid (see Pyramid) Spaulding Tahoe (see Tahoe) Origin of Valley Glacier LAKES, LESSER OF T. REGION LAKESIDE PARK Lassen, Mt. Last Chance Latham, Capt. W.W. Lavas Lawrence & Comstock LECONTE, JOHN, PHYSICAL STUDIES JOSEPH AND GLACIAL STUDIES AT TAHOE Lake LEGENDS, INDIAN, OF T. REGION Leiberg, John B. (q) Lemmon, J.G. (q) Level of Tahoe, Variations in Lewis River Lick, James Lily Lake Lincoln, Mt. Lindgren (q) Lion Peak _Lippincott's_ (q) Logging Lola, Mt. Lonely Gulch Loon Lake Los Angeles Lover's Leap Lucile Lake Lumbering Lyell, Mt.

McConnell, Mary McGlashan, C.F. Nonette V. McKinney McKinstry Peak Madden, Dick, Creek Maggie's Peaks Markleeville Marlette, Lake Peak S.H. Martis Valley Mary's Lake Marysville Buttes Meadow Lake Mines Meek's Bay Mer de Glace Meteor Michigan Bluff Mildred, Mt. Miller Creek Joaquin (q) Mineral Springs MINING EXCITEMENT, SQUAW VALLEY Moana Villa Modjeska Falls Mono Indians Lake Monona Flat Monument Peak Moody, Chas. A. (q) Moraines Mountains of Calif, (q) of T. Region Muir, John Murphy Bros, and Morgan Murphy, Virginia Reed Myers' Station

NAMES, VARIOUS OF L. TAHOE Napoleon's Hat Nevada City History of Neve Newcastle North Bloomfield Fork Am. River

OBSERVATORY, MT. ROSE Point Ogden Omega Overland Monthly (q)

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. House Painti Indians Parsons, Miss Phillips Phipps Creek Peak PHYSICAL STUDIES OF L. TAHOE Pine, Digger Finger Cove Forest Inn Jeffrey Sugar White Yellow Pino Grande (see The Grove) Placerville Road Pleasant Lake Pluto, Mt. Pomin, Capt. Wm. Pomin's Pray, Capt. A.W. Preuss, Companion of Fremont Price, W.W. Mrs. W.W. Prosser Creek Puberty Dance PUBLIC USE OF WATERS OF L. TAHOE Pyramid Lake Discovered Named Peak

Quaker Hill

RAIL, TO LAKE TAHOE Ramsay, Mrs. John. L. Rangers Forest Station, Kent Raymond Peak Reclamation Service, U.S. Red Peak Reed, James T. Reid, W.T. Reno Water & Electric Co. Richards', Hank, Lake Richardson's Auto Stage Richardson, Barton Peak Rivers of Tahoe Riverton Roads in Tahoe Forest Robinson, L.L. Rock Bound Lakes Rose, Mt., Flowers of OBSERVATORY _Roughing It_ (q) Round Mound Top Rowlands Rubicon Park Peaks Point River SPRINGS Road

Sacramento River Valley Railroad Salmon Trout River Sallie, Princess Salter, Nelson I. San Buenaventura River Sand Mtn. San Francisco Joaquin Valley Scott Bros. _Seiches_ on Lake Tahoe Sequoia Gigantea Shaffer's Mills Shakspeare Rock, Shank's Cove Shasta Fir Shasta Mtn. Shingle Springs Shooting the Chutes Sierra Valley _Silva of Calif_. Silver Mtn. Smith, J.W., on Fremont's Diary Flat Snow Shoe Thompson Valley Peak Snyder killed Soda Spring Southern Pacific Ry. South Fork, American R. Spaulding, Lake Spider Lake Sportsman's Hall Spruce, Alpine Squaw Peak Valley MINING EXCITEMENT Stanford, Gov. (Steamer) Starved Camp State Line House STEAMER AROUND L. TAHOE Strawberry Sugar Loaf Pine Point SUMMER RESIDENCE, L. TAHOE FOR Summit Valley Sumpter, Fort _Sunset Mag_. Susan (Indian) Susie Lake Sutter's Fort Swimming at Tahoe Swinging Bridges

Tahoe City Country Club and S.F. Waterworks TAHOE, LAKE, AND TRUCKEE RIVER AUTOMOBILE ROUTE, WISHBONE AS A SUMMER RESIDENCE BIRDS AND ANIMALS OF Boating at Boulevard BY STEAMER AROUND CAMPING OUT TRIPS CHAPARRAL OF T. REGION CHENEY, J.V., AT Climate of Colors of Depth of Discovery of Drowned do not rise at Feeders of FISHING AT FLOWERS OF FREMONT AND THE DISCOVERY OF GEOLOGY OF GLACIAL HISTORY OF How FORMED HUNTING AT INDIANS OF INDIAN LEGENDS OF KING, THOS. STARR, AT LECONTE, JOSEPH, AT LECONTE'S PHYSICAL STUDIES OF Levels, Variations of MARK TWAIN AT Mountains of Names NATIONAL FOREST Never freezes Origin of Peculiarities of Physical Culture at PUBLIC USE OF WATERS OF RAIL TO Railway and Transp. Co. Restfulness of Rivers of Significance of name Size of Swimming in Temperature of Transparency of Trees of TRUCKEE RIVER AND Variations of Level VARIOUS NAMES OF WHY "LAKE OF THE SKY" WINTER AT TAVERN TOWNS, HISTORIC Vista Tallac House Mt. Tevis, W.S. Thompson Peak Snow Shoe Tinker Knob Tlamath Lake (see Klamat) Tobogganing Todd's Valley Towle TOWNS, HISTORIC TAHOE TRAIL TRIPS IN T. REGION Hell Hole Rubicon River TREES OF T. REGION Trolling Trout, Varieties of Truckee (Indian) (Town) Canyon Glacier Little River Twain, Mark Twelve Mile Creek

Van Sickle Velma Lakes Verdi Virginia City Von Schmidt, A.W.

Wadsworth Ward Creek Peak Valley Washoe Indians WATER, PUBLIC USES OF TAHOE Watson Canyo Lake Mtn. Robt., Dedication Webber Lake Whisky Creek White Pine Wigwam Inn Winnemucca Sarah Wisconsin Hill Woods, Lake of the Wright, Wm.

Yankee Jim Yanks Yerington & Bliss Yew You Bet Yuba Forest Reserve

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