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Mojave Books, Published 1982. Paperback, 249 pp.; 25 cm; fourth printing (first printed 1969); illustrated with 20 full-page pencil and pastel drawings by David J. Stollery, III.
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In Very Good condition. Glossy turquoise illustrated covers (train and steamer Tahoe at the Tahoe Tavern pier on front; author portrait and biography on rear) with light bumping to corners and mild surface and edge wear. Perfect bound, binding tight. Pages mildly toned along edges, otherwise unmarked. Seventy-eight columns written by Stollery for the Tahoe City World, the eight-page weekly founded at Tahoe City in 1963, collected as short chapters of Lake Tahoe history, legend and description. Historical pieces cover the 170-foot steamer Tahoe, Dat-So-La-Le the Washoe basket maker, logging and lumbering before 1900, the Tahoe Tavern, the Donner story and Captain Fremont's cannon, drawing on the recollections of North Shore pioneers including Ernie Pomin, Pop Bechdolt and Jake Obexer. Washoe legends and animal fables (how the skunk got his stripe, why the raccoon wears a mask) run alongside. The illustrations are by the author's son, an industrial designer. This printing adds a Preface to the Fourth Printing (Encino, September 1982) noting changes at the lake since 1969, from the doubled Basin population to the rebuilt Dam Tender's Log Cabin. Contents: Facts About Tahoe; The Legend of the Lake; How Lake Tahoe Got Its Name; Around Lake Tahoe in a Rowboat; The Old Lighthouse; The Plug in the Bottom of the Lake; A New Year's Day at Tahoe City; The Queen of the Lake; The Sinking of the Tahoe; The Legend of the Island in the Lake; The Island in the Lake: White Man's Version; The Story of the Viking Castle; The Legend of the Devil's Rock Pile; Gun Fight at Tahoe City; The Place That Was Once Called 'Dirty Sock'; Why the Chipmunk Is So Small; Lake Tahoe as I Know It (As Told by George Murphy); Dat-So-La-Le, Indian Basket Maker; How the Porcupine Got His Quills; The Saga of Jake Obexer, Oil Tycoon; The Coming of the Railroad; Old Timers: Ernest H. Pomin; How Truckee Got Its Name; Around Lake Tahoe on Skis; Haunted Houses and Such!; How the Skunk Got His Stripe; The First Indian Newspaper; The Tahoe Tavern Story; The Tahoe City Commons Story; The Cross on the Hill; Rose-Marie; The Legend of Eagle Rock; Trail's End; The Hermit of Blackwood Canyon; Logging and Lumbering Before 1900; Anecdotes From Pop's Diary; Gold Strike at Glenbrook; The Legend of the Lady in the Lake; The Battle at Pop's Rock; Lake Tahoe's Gold Rush; Indians of the Lake; Editor "Warms Up" in 1881; How Incline Got Its Name; The Story of Captain Fremont's Cannon!; Animals and Indians; More Anecdotes From Pop's Diary; Sparky; The Gift of the Magi (With Apologies to O. Henry); The Donner Story; Why the Bear Sleeps All Winter; Snow, and the Woman Bus Driver; Why the Racoon Wears a Mask; The Time of the Big Snows; The Legend of Big Chief; The Battle of Cascade Lake; The Granlibakken Story; The Legend of When the Snows Came; The Highest Lighthouse in the World; Balancing Rock; Why the Lake of the Sky Is a Paradise; The Lady Who Drives a Truck; Let's Talk About the Weather; The Damming of the Lake; More Dam Trouble; That Dam Tender; The Place Once Called "Lousy Point"; Tahoe's Phantom Fleet; The Ski Club's Oldest Active Member; The Legend of Cave Rock; The Outdoor Chapel; Lake Tahoe Fisherman; The Big Slide at Emerald Bay; The Legend of Little "Always Busy"; Fallen Leaf Lake; A Mountain Climb; The Tallest Christmas Tree in the World; The Story of the Toll Road; One Man's Christmas; The Good Old Days.