W. F. Edwards' Tourist Guide and Directory of the Truckee Basin
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- Hardcover/Cloth
- Truckee, CA: W. F. Edwards ("Republican" Job Print), 1883
Truckee, CA: W. F. Edwards ("Republican" Job Print), 1883. First Edition. Hardcover/Cloth. Very Good Plus. Ex-Library [7.25x5in]; [9], 10-137, [1] Benevolent Societies, [1] device, [37] local advertisements, 12 plates including frontispiece of illustrations; Dark maroon cloth covers with blind stamped design on front and back, gilt lettering on front, all edges with red ink and trimmed; Minor shelf wear to covers with rubbing along joints, edged and corners, top and bottom of spine cloth frayed, faint old tape stains on covers, library code on black with white lettering on spine, closed tear repairs to fragile free end paper and frontispiece, remains of library card on free end paper, blue ink stamp of Contra Costa Free Library on title page, prior owner ink name on front free end paper, tipped in old library card. Very Scarce [Quebedeaux 38, Norris 1046, Cowan p. 192, Howes 73, Rocq 5983]. This book is the first tourist book on the Nevada County region and predates Fulton's directory in 1884. There are directory listings for Boca, Clinton, Truckee and Lake Tahoe. From the preface "To prepare these pages, old files have been scanned, histories searched, legends unearthed, old Citizens interviewed, resorts visited and copious excerpts made. It is hoped that it will prove interesting to residents of the Sierra Nevada and valuable to the tourist and sight-seer"
From Quebedeaux, "The book is a valuable source for the history of the period, including the "601" Vigilance Committee, which operated in Truckee in 1871 and 1874, with much factual information on the locale of the three ghost towns in the vicinity - Knoxville, Elizabethtown and Claraville - long on matter of controversy."
The Truckee river flows to the north from Lake Tahoe through the Sierras and then to the northeast through Reno and ending in Nevada's Pyramid Lake. The town of Truckee is near Donner pass and the was surveyed as a station for the intercontinental railroad route. When the railroad was completed in 1869, Truckee became a stop and grew as a tourist site for the region.
From Quebedeaux, "The book is a valuable source for the history of the period, including the "601" Vigilance Committee, which operated in Truckee in 1871 and 1874, with much factual information on the locale of the three ghost towns in the vicinity - Knoxville, Elizabethtown and Claraville - long on matter of controversy."
The Truckee river flows to the north from Lake Tahoe through the Sierras and then to the northeast through Reno and ending in Nevada's Pyramid Lake. The town of Truckee is near Donner pass and the was surveyed as a station for the intercontinental railroad route. When the railroad was completed in 1869, Truckee became a stop and grew as a tourist site for the region.