{"id":100,"date":"2009-01-05T22:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T05:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-01-05T22:35:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T05:35:24","slug":"mark-twain-on-tahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/mark-twain-on-tahoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain on Tahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal-button\"><a title= \"Tweet: Mark Twain on Tahoe\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href= \"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Mark%20Twain%20on%20Tahoe&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2F05%2Fmark-twain-on-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"LikeMark Twain on Tahoe\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2F05%2Fmark-twain-on-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-button\" href= \"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2F05%2Fmark-twain-on-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: Mark Twain on Tahoe\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-button\" href= \"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/mark-twain-on-tahoe\/&media=https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/rtsocial\/images\/default-pinterest.png&description=Mark Twain on Tahoe\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: Mark Twain on Tahoe\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/mark-twain-on-tahoe\/\" title=\"Mark Twain on Tahoe\"><\/a><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"rts_id\" class=\"rts_id\" value=\"100\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"rts_media_nonce\" name=\"rts_media_nonce\" value=\"0fb5a28020\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\" \/><\/div><div id=\"attachment_101\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101 margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;\" title=\"New Construction.  Carson City, Nevada.\" src=\"http:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/calt3881trb-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"New Construction.  Carson City, Nevada.\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/calt3881trb-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/calt3881trb.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Construction.  Carson City, Nevada.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In <em>Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty<\/em>, I\u2019ve included Mark Twain\u2019s account of his adventures at Lake Tahoe from his book <a title=\"Roughing It by Mark Twain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/etext\/9032\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Roughing It<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 This offers a singular account of Lake Tahoe in the 1860\u2019s, immediately on the heels of the California Gold Rush and soon after Tahoe began facing the stresses of settler, mining, and lumber interests.\u00a0 When I first came across this tale, I could not help from laughing out loud.\u00a0 With poignancy and\u00a0 humor, Twain captures a mindset that persists to this day.\u00a0 This time we are on the heels of the Internet and real estate bubbles \u2013 our modern-day gold rush.\u00a0 Better informed, we understand our impacts and, hopefully, will be better stewards of Lake Tahoe and the land.<\/p>\n<p>For more detail on Twain\u2019s time in Tahoe I suggest David Antonucci\u2019s research, <a title=\"Mark Twain's Route to Lake Tahoe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasbachand.com\/tahoe\/MarkTwainRouteNHSQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mark Twain&#8217;s Route to Lake Tahoe<\/em><\/a>, published in the <a title=\"Nevada Historical Society\" href=\"http:\/\/library.nevada.edu\/boomtown\/nhsp\/nhsp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada Historical Society Quarterly<\/a>.\u00a0 Antonucci explores the routes and camp locales Twain would have considered on his journey from Carson City to Lake Tahoe.\u00a0 Aside from this interesting background, we also glimpse the circumstances facing travelers to Lake Tahoe in those early days.<\/p>\n<p>Twain&#8217;s unique and entertaining look at Tahoe and the landscape not long after settler contact, offers an insightful counterpoint to Dr. Goldman\u2019s contemporary and studied examination as detailed in the introduction (see earlier post).\u00a0 These two personal accounts offer notable bookends to our modern culture\u2019s encounter with Lake Tahoe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal-button\"><a title= \"Tweet: Mark Twain on Tahoe\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href= \"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Mark%20Twain%20on%20Tahoe&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2F05%2Fmark-twain-on-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"LikeMark Twain on Tahoe\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2F05%2Fmark-twain-on-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-button\" href= \"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2F05%2Fmark-twain-on-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: Mark Twain on Tahoe\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-button\" href= \"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/mark-twain-on-tahoe\/&#038;media=https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/rtsocial\/images\/default-pinterest.png&#038;description=Mark Twain on Tahoe\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: Mark Twain on Tahoe\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/mark-twain-on-tahoe\/\" title=\"Mark Twain on Tahoe\"><\/a><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"rts_id\" class=\"rts_id\" value=\"100\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"rts_media_nonce\" name=\"rts_media_nonce\" value=\"0fb5a28020\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty, I\u2019ve included Mark Twain\u2019s account of his adventures at Lake Tahoe from his book Roughing It.\u00a0 This offers a singular account of Lake Tahoe in the 1860\u2019s, immediately on the heels of the California &hellip; 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