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Truckee's only history card game

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LONGBOARDS TO OLYMPICS
~ A Century of Tahoe Winter Sports ~

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Sawdust Trails In The Truckee Basin
A history of lumbering operations
by Dick Wilson
90 pages
$11.95

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Non Member Price $11.95 Member Price $10.75

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Across The Plains In The Donner Party
A personal narrative of the overland trip to California 1846-47. With illustrations by Frederic Remington and others.
By Virginia Reed Murphy
64 pages
$7.95

IN VERY LIMITED SUPPLY . . .
TEMPORARILY OUT OF PRINT

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Non Member Price $7.95 Member Price $7.16

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There are so many things
I Wish I'd Asked my Father
An authentic oral history of
Truckee, California
Interviews By: The Sierra Mountain Intermediate School Discovery class.
108 pages
$6.95

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Non Member Price $6.95 Member Price $6.25

Fire & Ice
A Portrait Of Truckee
Writen and Published by: Truckee Donner Historical Society
92 pages
$21.95

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Non Member Price $21.95 Member Price $19.76

Give Me A Mountain Meadow
The life of Charles Fayette McGlashan
The dynamic lawyer/editor who gave the world the Donner Party's true story and played a dramatic role in the fascinating history of Truckee and California.
By M. Nona McGlashan
248 pages
$12.50         

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Non Member Price $12.50 Member Price $11.25

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Truckee
An illustrated history of the town and it's surroundings. By Joanne Meschery
$12.95

IT'S BACK . . .
one of your favorite books is now available.

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Non Member Price $12.95 Member Price $11.65

Patty Reed's Doll
The story of the Donner Party as seen through the eyes of Patty Reed's special friend throughout her ordeal Dolly, a tiny wooden doll she kept hidden in her dress.
By Rachel K. Laurgaard
143 pages
$9.95

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Sierra Stories
True Tales of Tahoe, Volume 1
A dozen exciting stories from the days of stagecoaches, train robberies and gold fever.
First Edition
By Mark McLaughlin
111 pages
$11.95

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Non Member Price $11.95 Member Price $10.75

Sierra Stories
True Tales of Tahoe
Volume 2
Ten entertaining tales of High Sierra and Comstock adventure.
122 pages.
By Mark McLaughlin
$11.95

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History Of The Donner Party
A Tragedy of the Sierra.
By C. F. McGlashan
261 pages
$23.95

SHORT SUPPLY. . .Discontinuing

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Non Member Price $23.95 Member Price $21.56

Winter of Entrapment
A New Look At The Donner Party
By Joseph A. King
Third Edition
247 pages
$13.95

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Non Member Price $13.95 Member Price $12.56

To Donner Pass from the Pacific
A map history covering 150 years of California's Lincoln Highway, Victory Highway, US-40, I-80, Henness Pass, Pacific Turnpike and Dutch Flat Donner Lake Toll Roads from 1852 to 2002
By Jack E. Duncan
$19.50

OUT OF PRINT . . .
INVENTORY EXTREMELY LOW!

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Non Member Price $19.50 Member Price $17.55

To Truckee's Trail
The Greatest Adventure ... Never Told,
Until Now.
The Stephens-Townsend Party of 1844, fifty men, women and children set out for California. These are their stores.
269 pages.
By Celia Hayes
$15.95

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Non Member Price $15.95 Member Price $14.35

Ordeal By Hunger
The Story of the Donner Party
367 pages
By George R. Stewart
$14.95

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Non Member Price $14.95 Member Price $13.46

Western Train Adventures: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
A unique collection of well-illustrated stories that celebrate the colorful western railroad era.
216 pages.
By Mark McLaughlin
$18.95

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Non Member Price $18.95 Member Price $17.06

Showdown at Truckee
The Legend of Jake Teeter, James Reed and the 601
By Marilou West Ficklin and Laura Elaine Romaniak
$13.95

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The Fateful Journey of Tamsen Donner
The author took basic facts of that fateful spring of 1846 by using George Donner's wife Tamsen at the center of his book and added deduction and logic to make this story whole in the mind of the reader
By Frankye Craig
292 pages
$17.95

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Non Member Price $17.95 Member Price $16.16

The Donner Party: Weathering the Storm
Fresh, dramatic, insightful with many previously unpublished photos. Best Nonfiction Book award for 2006.
By Mark McLaughlin
192 pages
$18.95

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Non Member Price $18.95 Member Price $17.06

Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
Thanks to this gripping narrative, Chinese immigrants to the Far West so long overlooked--now stand front and center in the saga of the struggle for civil rights in these United States--Kevin Starr.
One chapter is devoted entirely to the Chinese treatment in Truckee.
By Jean Pfaelzer
351 pages
$27.95  Hard Back Cover

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Non Member Price $27.95 Member Price $25.15

A Donner Party Story: Daughters of Destiny
The compelling story of the Donner Party as narrated by George and Tamsen Donner's daughter, Eliza. By putting Eliza at the center of this saga, author Frankye Craig gives an exceptional poignancy to this tale of people pushed to the limits of survival.
By Frankye Craig
234 pages
36 illustrations
$19.95

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Non Member Price $19.95 Member Price $17.96

The Donner Party: Fateful Journey
Frankye Craig's latest book on the Donner Party was released in June 2008. Craig has taken the basic facts from various accounts of that time and added deduction and logic to make this new story whole in the mind of the reader. The compelling story comes to life through the device of first person narration. The reader will travel along with all the emigrant families, experience the joys of new experiences and then the heartaches as the journey takes a terrible turn.
By Frankye Craig
273 pages
numerous illustrations
$19.95

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Non Member Price $17.95 Member Price $16.16

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The Truckee Trivia Game is packaged in silver tins.   Each tin is loaded with interesting questions and fun facts about the people, events and history of Truckee.

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Non-Member Price $12.95 Member Price $11.65

Longboards to Olympics
— A Century of Tahoe Winter Sports —

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Non Member Price $24.95 Member Price $22.46