Photo courtesy of the Bureau of Highways, 1896, showing the recommended state highway system for California
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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
(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.
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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, CALa 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 |
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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
