Trade paperback, 192 pages,
6 x 9, 39 photographs,
portions of seven early maps,
bibliography.
ISBN: 0-944220-01-0
$14.95
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Tahoe Place Names
The origin and history of names
in the Lake Tahoe Basin
by Barbara Lekisch
Foreword by Richard H. Dillon
"Barbara
Lekisch has become the chief authority on the subject—a superb introduction to the
region." (Hal Gilliam, San
Francisco Chronicle.)
On February
14, 1844, the explorer John C. Fremont and his cartographer, Charles Preuss, stood
atop Red Lake Peak in the Sierra Nevada, and from that summit were the first white men to
see Lake Tahoe—a name that did not come into use until 1863.
Contains old
names, Washoe Indian names, and the diary of Charles Preuss from January and
February of 1844 (Frémont's second expedition to the Far West).
Floating
Island Lake
"This lake covers an area of about five acres. Floating on its surface is a
lawn-covered natural island, some twenty feet in diameter, which floats with such buoyancy
as to carry a fishing party of from four to six people, who paddle it about the
lake." (Sacramento Daily Union, June 15, 1890.)
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