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    Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe
    Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe
    Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe
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    Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe

    By Ellen Drewes

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    "I thought it must be the fairest picture the whole earth affords,” wrote Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe. Countless other visitors have agreed, and since the turn of the century the lake’s clear, pure waters and breathtaking natural surroundings have made it a national treasure and an international vacation destination. As one of the deepest and largest of alpine lakes in the United States and the world, Lake Tahoe is said to be one of the most photographed spots on earth.

    In the clarity and vivid detail of black-and-white photography, Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe showcases nearly 200 images and two centuries of the lake and its surroundings, along with the people, places, and events that have shaped its unique history.

    Journey with researcher and writer Ellen Drewes as she visits the remarkable past of this scintillating American hideaway.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateJul 1, 2008
    ISBN9781618584014
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      Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe - Ellen Drewes

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      LAKE TAHOE

      TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY ELLEN DREWES

      The steamer Meteor with passengers and crew visible. Launched August 27, 1876, from Glenbrook, the Greyhound of the Lake was at that time the largest and fastest inland waterway tug in the country, managing 20 knots and measuring 70 feet in length.

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      LAKE TAHOE

      Turner Publishing Company

      200 4th Avenue North • Suite 950

      Nashville, Tennessee 37219

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      Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe

      Copyright © 2009 Turner Publishing Company

      All rights reserved.

      This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2008901850

      ISBN-13: 978-1-59652-447-7

      Printed in the United States of America

      09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16—0  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      EARLY DAYS AND PIONEER WAYS (1860–1900)

      FROM SILVER LODES TO GOLDEN LODGES (1901–1920)

      A NATIONAL PLAYGROUND FOR ALL (1921–1940)

      CLAIM TO FAME (1941–1980)

      NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS

      Water skiing on Lake Tahoe around the 1950s. From the boat, one woman watches as another skis the lake, with Shakespeare Rock in the background.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This volume, Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of many individuals, organizations, and corporations. It is with great thanks that we acknowledge the valuable contribution of the following for their generous support:

      Library of Congress

      Special Collections, the University of Nevada, Reno Library

      The author wishes to acknowledge Kathryn Totton, Photo Archivist in Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries, who has researched the background of many of the photographs in this book; Donnelyn Curtis, Head of Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries, who selected several of the photographs; Johanna Raymond and Melissa Rivera, student assistants in Special Collections who digitized the photographs; the many photographers who documented Lake Tahoe’s history so beautifully, especially Gus Bundy; and the many donors who lovingly preserved and generously provided the photographs to Special Collections, especially Dr. James Herz and Bethel Van Tassel.

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      With the exception of touching up imperfections that have accrued with the passage of time, rendering color as black-and-white for a few of the later images, and cropping where necessary, no changes have been made to the photographs. The focus and clarity of many images is limited to the technology and the ability of the photographer at the time they were recorded.

      PREFACE

      So singularly clear was the water that when it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! … so strong was the sense of floating high aloft in mid-nothingness, that we called these boat excursions ‘balloon voyages’ wrote Mark Twain. He was describing his idyllic encounter with Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake, one of the highest lakes, and the second deepest lake in the United States.

      Crystal-clear Lake Tahoe is geographically unique, straddling California and Nevada and lying on a fault line that can subject it to earthquakes, and potentially tsunamis. Its history began with early inhabitants the Washoe, who made a summer pilgrimage from the Carson Valley to its cooler climes, and continued with explorers John Fremont, Kit Carson, and their party, who first sighted the lake in 1844 from points southwest. When the Comstock silver lode was discovered near Virginia City in 1859, only a short distance east, the Bonanza Road became the first west-to-east road across the mountains, built to accommodate fortune hunters, who were trekking northerly Beckworth Pass and Donner Pass, and Carson Pass to the south, to cash in on the region’s mineral wealth. To supply lumber for mines and settlements, a logging campaign sprang up, which stripped the Tahoe area of its rich conifer forests between 1860 and

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