In Part IX, we touched on the subject of the most famous and, according to most visitors of the time, most beautiful steamer to grace the lake, the steamer “Tahoe,” often referred to as the “S.S. Tahoe” and also the…
Category: Lake Tahoe History
Lake Tahoe – “The Lake of the Sky,” Part IX – The Early Steamers on the Lake
It was Augustus Pray, a lumberman at Glenbrook in the Tahoe Basin, that first realized the need for steam powered boats on the lake. Throughout the 1850s and early 1860s only sailboats had carried the freight, passengers and mail around…
Lake Tahoe – “The Lake of the Sky,” Part VIII – The Sailboats Arrive
The first visitors to the Tahoe Basin, the Native Americans, probably did not venture far out on to the lake in boats. Neither did the early explorers and mountain men. There was no need to do so, since there was…
Lake Tahoe – “The Lake of the Sky,” Part VII – The Basin Begins to Fill
There was only one road that entered the southern end of the Tahoe Basin from Sacramento and Placerville. However, once it entered, it split into two roads just east of Yank’s Station. One branch passed along the southern end of…