MILE
HIGH FEVER: Silver Mines, Boom Towns, and High
Living on the Comstock Lode
By: Drabelle,
Dennis
Pub Date: 2009
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Binding:HArcover
Pages:125
ISBN: 0970317514
Price: $34.95 |
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This
is a lively account of silver mining in the late nineteenth-century
American West. In addition to some of the more unsavory aspects of the
boom - including the ruthless treatment of Native Americans - Drabelle
writes of the young journalist Mark Twain and his experiences in
Virginia City. With its descriptions of colorful characters and
get-rich-quick schemes, this account brings to light one of the pivotal
episodes in American history.
Autographed copies in stores while supplies last.
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TOWERS
OF GOLD: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
By
Dinkelspiel, Frances
Pub Date: 2008
Publisher: St Martins Press
Illustrated: Historic photos
Binding:Hardcover
Pages:176
ISBN:0312355262
Price: $29.95 |
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Frances
Dinkelspiel, Hellman's great-great grandaughter, has written the
first biography of the man considered the preeminent West Coast financier
of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Starting from the days when Los
Angeles was more dusty pueblo than American city and continuing through
the San Francisco earthquake and World War I, Towers of Gold: How One
Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California tells
the improbable rags to riches tale of a once-famous, but now relatively
unknown, figure. Towers of Gold is also a tale of the transformation of California from a frontier
economy based on the barter of tallow and hides into one of the world's
strongest economies.
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The
Golden corridor:
19th Century Northern California from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe
Edited by:
Horner, Jody & Ric
Pub Date: 2005
Publisher: 19th Century Books
Illustrated: Historical black & white photos
Binding: Paperback
Pages:200
ISBN: 0976697637
Price: $21.95 |
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Relive
the hopes and dreams of California's early settlers in this collection of
their journals, letters, and books. You'll laugh, cry, cringe, and wonder
if you could have made it through their grueling experiences as they
traveled to what they hoped would be a better life. Filled with historical
photos, this is a wonderfully entertaining chronicle of the early
California life . |
Lake
TAhoe: Images
of America
By: Goin, Peter
Pub Date: 2005
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Illustrated: Black & white photos
Binding: Paperback
Pages:128
ISBN: 073853031x
Price: $19.99 |
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Peter
Goin of the University of Nevada, Reno, provides historical commentary on
photos form Tahoe's past, delivering what others do not necessarily
provide: what am I looking at and exactly where is it? Images of
America offers photos rarely seen, such as the sinking of the Meteor
which was in service for more than 60 years. A gem of a book. |
Memories
of TAhoe: A Photographic Portfolio from
1920-1959
Compiled by
Jim Bell
Pub Date: 2005
Publisher: Jim Bell
Illustrated: Sepia (black & white) photos
Binding: Paperback
Pages:125
ISBN: 0970317514
Price: $34.95 |
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This
follow-up to Jim's bestselling Tahoe's Gilded Age comprises more of
Old Tahoe's amazing history in an attractive paperback that's a perfect
companion to his first collection. The awe of history's arc, here defined
by the Tahoe of yesterday, is displayed for us in this wondrous book. |
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CASTLE
IN THE SKY:
George Whittell Jr. and the Thunderbird Lodge
By: James,
Ronald M. and Susan A.
Pub Date: 2002
Publisher: Thunderbird Lodge Press
Illustrated: Historical photos and modern-day photos by John Ravize and
others
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN:
Price: $30.00 |
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Nevada's
State Historic Preservation Officer Ronald James and historian Susan James
have collaborated to offer us this fascinating photo-history of one of
Lake Tahoe's most colorful characters: his bohemian life, how he came to
own most of the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe in the early 1900s and build
his "castle" there, and his influence on the environmental
legacy of Lake Tahoe. Packed with historical and stunning modern day
photos. Just reissued in a
second-edition paperback! |
Lake
of the Sky: The Story of Tahoe,
Tapes I and II
Video By: Dallas, Peter
Narration: Nimoy, Leonard
Pub Date: 2001
Publisher: Sierra State Parks
Foundation
Time: Approx. 60 minutes each
Price: VHS, Part I $24.95; Part II $26.95
Currently Unavailable |
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Lake
of the Sky animates hundreds of old Tahoe photographs to offer a glimpse
into the remarkable history of Lake Tahoe: its early Indian inhabitants as
well as the generations of 19th- and 20th- century visitors who
defined and discovered the Tahoe experience. As Nimoy says, "With a
little imagination, [visitors] will relive the Tahoe of yesteryear - a
time when visiting the Lake of the Sky was a grand, contagious
adventure." |
Missing in the Minarets
By Alsup, William
Pub Date: 2004
Publisher: Yosemite Association
Binding:Trade paper
Pages: 215
ISBN: 1-930238-08-8
Price: $14.95 |
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This
riveting narrative details the disappearance of Peter Starr, a San
Francisco attorney from a prominent San Francisco family, who set off
alone to climb the rugged Minaret region of the Sierra Nevada in 1933.
Despite a number of promising clues, searches by some of the best climbers
in the history of the range failed to locate him. However, Norman Clyde
refused to give up. This re-creation of a famous episode in the annals of
the Sierra Nevada is mountaineering literature at its best. |
sURVIVAL
AT BOILER POINT
By Mandeville, Vesta Avis
Pub Date: 2001
Publisher: Vesta Avis Mandeville
Illustrated: Historical photos
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 271
ISBN: 0936029609
Price: $24.95 |
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This
regional history book details the story of the Mandeville family who moved
to Boiler Point, on the north shore of Tahoe near Tahoe Vista, in
1914. This is a wonderful chronicle of life in the early days at
Tahoe, illustrated by a wealth of historical photographs. A must-have for
anyone interested in Lake Tahoe's rich cultural history. |
SIERRA
STORIES; True Tales of Tahoe, Volumes 1 & 2
By McLaughlin, Mark
Pub Date: 1997 / 1998
Publisher: MicMac Publishing
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 110 / 121, illustrated
ISBN: 0965720217 / 0965720225
List Price: 11.95 each |
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From
Nellie Bly to Mark Twain, readers of true adventure will delight in these
stories of yesteryear. Readers of all ages will find these stories both
entertaining and educational. These books have never been off our
stores' bestsellers list since their publication. |
MOUNTAIN
DREAMERS: Visionaries of Sierra Nevada Skiing
By Frohlich, Robert
Photographer: Caddes, Carolyn & Lippert, Tom
Pub Date: 1997
Publisher: Coldstream Press
Binding: Hardcover / Trade paper
Pages: 152
ISBN: 0963305654 / 0963305662
List Price: $50.00 / $14.95
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The
mountain dreamers whose memories fill this book are the extraordinary men
and women who share with us their deep love for the Sierra Nevada. They
built the ski areas in the snowy range and taught legions of skiers. Most
of these pioneers started with a rope tow or two, little money, and big
dreams which they realized with years of hard work and a continued faith
in the lure of the mountains they loved so dearly. Anybody who has
strapped on skis for a ride down one of the ski resorts featured will
surely want this volume for their bookshelf.
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TAHOE
HERITAGE: The Bliss Family of Glenbrook, Nevada
By Wheeler, Sessions S. (with Bliss, William W.)
Pub Date: 1997
Publisher: Univ. of Nevada Press
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 154
ISBN: 0874172993
List Price: $17.95 |
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Anyone
interested in the history of Lake Tahoe will appreciate the story of the transition of the lake from a lumber
enterprise to a haven from the hustle and bustle of the outside world.
More than a hundred years ago, Duane L. Bliss built his Carson & Tahoe
Lumber and Fluming Company, engineered the Lake Tahoe Railway and
Transportation Company, and developed a quaint hostelry into the renowned
Glenbrook Inn. Tahoe Heritage is an account not only of Glenbrook
and the Bliss family, but of Lake Tahoe in its earliest days. |
STOPPING
TIME:
A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe
By Goin, Peter; Raymond, C. Elizabeth; Blesse, Robert E.
Pub Date: 1992
Publisher: U. of New Mexico Press
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 134
ISBN: 0826312853
List Price: $34.95
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Starting
with 19th-century photographs from a variety of national and local
archives, the authors have provided more than one hundred comparative photographs representing a visual document of the evolving landscape
within the Tahoe Basin. Stopping Time confronts issues that
have come to the fore in the late 20th century: how we use the land, how
we perceive the landscape, and what our perceptions mean for the future.
This is a wonderful visual record of an irreplaceable ecosystem.
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TALES OF TAHOE &
MORE TALES OF TAHOE
By Stollery, Jr., David J.
Pub Date: 1969 / 1988
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 249 / 230
List Price: $15.95 each |
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Tales
of Tahoe contains Stollery's
original columns for the Tahoe City World, (now the Tahoe World)
whose masthead stated that it was "Printed and Published Weekly at
Tahoe City, California, Where the Elevation is Higher than the Population,
Usually-Dedicated to the Preservation, Exhilaration and Consternation of
the North Shore." More Tales of Tahoe is the companion
volume. |
THE
SAGA OF LAKE TAHOE: Volumes I
& II
By Scott, E.B.
Pub Date: 1957 / 1973
Publisher: Sierra-Tahoe Publishing
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 519 / 528
List Price: $60.95 each |
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These
companion volumes are filled with hundreds of black-and-white photographs.
A recognized authority on the Tahoe region, Scott was known
primarily for his definitive pictorial history on the world's greatest
alpine lake. These comprehensive books are indispensable for the
scholar and amateur historian alike. |
