Publications and
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Updated HCS 10/6/2022
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Below are books you can purchase from the Truckee Donner Historical Society.
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In its effort to share the colorful and dramatic history of the Truckee region, the
Truckee Donner Historical Society is proud to sell the books posted on our website.
However, many of these publications have been independently produced by local historians,
professional and amateur, and they have not been vetted for accuracy by the Society.
Tax is NOT included in these prices.
Make purchases by using your credit card, PayPal account, or by check
Use the 'Add to Cart' to pay by credit card or PayPal account
Use the 'Mail-In Order Form' to pay by check
In its effort to share the colorful and dramatic history of the Truckee region, the
Truckee Donner Historical Society is proud to sell the books posted on our website.
However, many of these publications have been independently produced by local historians,
professional and amateur, and they have not been vetted for accuracy by the Society.
Tax is NOT included in these prices.
Price reduced !!!
Tales & Towns Along The Truckee, A Hundred Miles of History
Illustrations, photographs, including ice men, harvesting, and ponds. Covers from Tahoe Tavern area of Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
TDHS Research Historian and 2013-14 President, Chaun Mortier, is mentioned in author's Acknowledgments. Some graphics contained in the book were provided by the Truckee Donner Historical Society.
By: Roger Huff
Published by Write Aweigh 2013
80 pages
$17.00 Spiral bound Paperback
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 Paperback
$7.95
Back in Stock - New Printing
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Fire & Ice
A Portrait Of Truckee
Written and Published by: Truckee Donner Historical Society
92 pages Paperback
$20 + tax
Price reduced !!!
"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 Paperback
$10.00 + tax
Josanne Meschery Truckee Illustrated 2018 re-release of her original 1978 issue.
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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 Paperback
$17.95
Commissioners Official Rail Road Map of California, completed to July 1, 1888. $35.00 includes tax, shipping and handling.
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There are other books available for purchase at the Joseph Research Library, but they are not included in books available to purchase online above. Please contact us at the Cabin at (530) 582-0893 or send us an email to publications@truckeehistory.org and we will gladly assist you in purchasing the items you wish. These books are:
Exploring Nevada County, An Illustrated Guide to Local Landmarks and Historic Sites 2010, first revised edition.
170 photos and 16 maps show where to find over 190 landmarks scattered throughout Nevada County. Use it to plan family outings and entertain guests. Identifies buildings and sites in Truckee, Nevada City, Grass Valley, Rough and Ready, Chicago Park, Penn Valley, Washington, North Bloomfield and North San Juan. By: The Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission. 144 pages; Illustrated maps | Numerous illustrations
$16.50 Paperback
Exploring Nevada County, An Illustrated Guide to Local Landmarks and Historic Sites 2010, first revised edition.
170 photos and 16 maps show where to find over 190 landmarks scattered throughout Nevada County. Use it to plan family outings and entertain guests. Identifies buildings and sites in Truckee, Nevada City, Grass Valley, Rough and Ready, Chicago Park, Penn Valley, Washington, North Bloomfield and North San Juan. By: The Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission. 144 pages; Illustrated maps | Numerous illustrations
$16.50 Paperback
(Left) 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 Paperback.
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(Right) Sierra Stories True Tales of Tahoe,
Volume 2. Ten entertaining tales of High Sierra and Comstock adventure. By Mark McLaughlin. 122 pages. $11.95 Paperback. 
(RIght) Longboards to Olympics —
A Century of Tahoe Winter Sports — Longboards to Olympics is the only book that tells the fascinating story of how winter sports took Northern California by storm and captured the imagination of a nation. From the early exploits of skiing mailman Snowshoe Thompson, through the 1930s, a breakout decade for Skisport when thousands attended ski jumps in Berkeley and San Francisco. These well-illustrated stories conclude with the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, the seminal event that launched Lake Tahoe into the international spotlight for world-class winter sports. Mark McLaughlin. $24.95 paperback. |
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(Left) Western Train Adventures: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. A unique collection of well-illustrated stories that celebrate the colorful western railroad era. By Mark McLaughlin. 216 pages. $18.95 Paperback. |
(Right) Ordeal by Hunger. The Story of the Donner Party. By George R. Stewart. 367 pages. $14.95 Paperback. |
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(Left) 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 Paperback.
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(Right) The Donner Party: Fateful Journey
Frankye Craig's latest book was released 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. $17.95 Paperback. |
(Left) 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 Paperback.
