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History of the Donner Party
Charles Fayette McGlashan
其他書名
A Tragedy of the Sierra: (Aberdeen Classics Collection)
出版Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US, 2020-08-24
主題Fiction / Biographical
ISBN9798676612504
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QyfOzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Three miles from Truckee, Nevada County, California, lies one of the fairest and most picturesque lakes in all the Sierra. Above, and on either side, are lofty mountains, with castellated granite crests, while below, at the mouth of the lake, a grassy, meadowy valley widens out and extends almost to Truckee. The body of water is three miles long, one and a half miles wide, and four hundred and eightythree feet in depth. Tourists and picnic parties annually flock to its shores, and Bierstadt has made it the subject of one of his finest, grandest paintings. In summer, its willowy thickets, its groves of tamarack and forests of pine, are the favorite haunts and nesting places of the quail and grouse. Beautiful, speckled mountain trout plentifully abound in its crystalline waters.