Truckee Main Street, Hotel Rex, California Cafe
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| Truckee (Indian word that means OK) is located on highway 40 and a few miles below the spot where the Donner Party had such a bad winter in 1846. The first ski club was organized here in 1913. The back country has its cow-punchers, shepherds and lumber-jacks. Highway 40 climbs to the summit of Donner Pass (el. 7,135 ft.) over perpendicular walls of granite, where in 1844 the Stevens-Murphy Party had to take their wagons apart and carried them over the top, piece by piece. Fremont, along with his guide Kit Carson, explored this region in the 1840s. Fremont named the nearby river Salmon Trout River, it was later changed to Truckee. |
