Truckee
- Editore:
ARCADIA PUB (SC)
- Collana:
- Images of America (Arcadia Pub
- EAN:
9780738574950
- ISBN:
0738574953
- Pagine:
- 127
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Truckee
At 5,980 feet, Truckee enchants visitors with a quaintness that belies the mountain town's rugged past. The very environment in which Truckee exists--high elevation, cold, deep snows--forced its founding fathers, residents, immigrants, and transient workers to make tough decisions while attempting to keep peace in a wildly remote area. In just over 150 years, Truckee has morphed from a collection of lawless rough-and-tumble settlements to a close-knit community with a sense of adventure at its core. The Truckee area was also at the cornerstone of many 19th-century technological innovations. From logging that kept trains stoked and fed Nevada mines to an ice-harvesting industry that transformed refrigerated transportation and the largest paper mill west of the Mississippi, Truckee proved its engineering mettle.