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Photo courtesy of the Bureau of Highways, 1896, showing the recommended state highway system for California
Supplemental Content
Echoes From the Past
March 2016 Issue 1
Related materials to 2015 Donations to TDHS Archives

In relaying information about donations TDHS received in 2015, related information came to light about the "Truckee River Route."  Appropriate credit is rendered to each source.  We also provide a list of research materials we consulted for the article.
 Websites consulted:
  • ​Wikipedia, map of the Bureau of Highways (above)
  • The California Highway Commission and the Truckee River Route - Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Fall 1974; start at p. 153 (p. 31 of the online pdf); this is a great read and explains HOW and WHY the Truckee River Canyon route was selected over the Dog Valley Route in constructing the highway between Reno and Truckee - fascinating background story
  • University of Nevada Map Collection
  • How the Truckee River Route Was Built by Wallace (Wally) B. Gelatt, Manager, Donner Lake Company, California State Library, OCLC Number 58896821, typewritten manuscript, dated 1921  (Copy available at TDHS Research Library.)
  • Various 1921 Newspaper articles relating the Auburn-Reno Road Survey Association's presentations about the Truckee River Route
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​(Above) Letterhead for the San Francisco to Reno Highway Association, Truckee, California.  Note President Harvey M. Toy, of San Francisco, and C.B. White and W.B. Gelatt, Truckee.  Note corresponding envelope to the right addressed to Mr. White, postmarked Dec. 9, 1921.
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(Top) Nevada County Civilian Defense Council card, sample; (middle), Dec. 9, 1921 postmarked letter to Chamber of Commerce, Truckee, that complemented the San Francisco to Reno Highway Association letterhead (left); (bottom left) The S.F. Call-Post newspaper snippet dated Dec. 9, 1921 about movies being filmed in Truckee; and (bottom right) a July 31, 1908 U.S. Postal Money Order receipt.
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Sample Civil Defense Card, 1942.

References for the article ON WINGS OF TERROR include the following newspaper accounts dated March 20, 1946 or thereafter.
​Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine
Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Iowa
Findlay Republican Courier, Findlay, Ohio
Galveston Daily News
Galveston Daily News, Galveston, TX
Hammond Times, Indiana
Hammond Times, Indiana
Joplin News Herald, MI
Kenosha Evening News, Wisconsin
Kenosha Evening News, Wisconsin
Kingston Daily Freeman, NY
​The Morning Herald 
Abilene Reporter News, TX
Altoona Mirror
Bakersfield Californian
Berkeley Daily Gazette, Berkeley, CA
Bismarck Tribune, ND
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West VA
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, West VA
Butte Montana Standard
Chester Times, Chester, PA
Circleville Herald, Ohio
Daily Evening Telegraph, Dixon Illinois
La Crosse Tribune, Wisconsin
Las Cruces Sun News, NM
Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, NE
Lubbock Morning Avalanche, Lubbock TX
Moberly Monitor Index, Missouri
Morning Avalanche, Lubbock, TX 
Morning Herald, Hagerstown, MD
Nevada State Journal
Norwalk Reflector Herald
Oakland Tribune
Ogden Standard Examiner, UT
Oxnard Press Courier, CA​​La Crosse Tribune,
​    Wisconsin
Las Cruces Sun News, NM
Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, NE
Lubbock Morning Avalanche, Lubbock TX
Moberly Monitor Index, Missouri
Morning Avalanche, Lubbock, TX 
Morning Herald, Hagerstown, MD
Nevada State Journal
Norwalk Reflector Herald
Oakland Tribune
Ogden Standard Examiner, UT
​Racine Journal Times, WI
San Antonio Express
San Mateo Times, CA
Somerset Daily American, PA
Tucson Daily Citizen
Uniontown Morning Herald, PA
Valparaiso Vidette Messenger, Indiana
Walla Walla Union Bulletin, WA
Waukesha Daily Freeman, Wisconsin
​Find A Grave

And for the B-29 crash, newspaper references dated March 20, 1946 or thereafter.
Berkeley Daily Gazette
Daily Kenneber Journal (Augusta, Maine)
Kenosha Evening News (Kenosha,
​    Wisconsin)
Lubbock Morning Avalanche (Texas)
​Macon Chronicle-Herald (Macon, Missouri)
Montana Standard
Oxnard Press Courier
Prescott Evening News
​San Mateo Times
The Daily Banner (Greencastle, Indiana)
The Telegraph-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa)
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

Editor, Heidi Sproat

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