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A Russian emigrant, surveyor and visionary, Von Schmidt established the present California-Nevada state line between Lake Tahoe and Oregon. He formed the San Fransico and Lake Tahoe Waterworks Company which proposed, during the 1870s, to build a . . . — — Map (db m169743) HM
The 16 mile railroad from Lake Tahoe to Truckee was a venture by the Bliss family of the Glenbrook Lumber fame. During the summer of 1898, William Seth Bliss was hired to survey the river canyon between Tahoe and the Central Pacific RR at Truckee. . . . — — Map (db m169783) HM
One thousand competitors from 34 nations came to Squaw Valley to compete in the VIII Olympic Winter Games of 1960. The Games, brought here by Alexander C. Cushing, commemorated a century of sport skiing in America. By 1860 mining towns in the Sierra . . . — — Map (db m23504) HM