The Lake of the Sky / Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter

by George Wharton James

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, Amadé
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
FRÉMONT 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 Frémont
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 Frémont'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, 102 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
FRÉMONT 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 Canyon
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