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

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

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
$4.65

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

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

Truckee
An illustrated history of the town and it's surroundings. By Joanne Meschery
Out of Stock
Updated Version Coming in 2008

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

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

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

History Of The Donner Party
A Tragedy of the Sierra.
By C. F. McGlashan
261 pages
$9.95

Winter of Entrapment
A New Look At The Donner Party
By Joseph A. King
Third Edition
247 pages
$18.95

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

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

Ordeal By Hunger
The Story of the Donner Party
>367 pages
By George R. Stewart
$13.95

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

Showdown at TruckeeThe Legend of Jake Teeter, James Reed and the 601
By Marilou West Ficklin and Laura Elaine Romaniak
OUT OF STOCK

The Fateful Journey of Tamsen Donner
Th 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

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

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

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