![]() ![]() “Tahoe” be – forgotten!” The Summer Winds Lake Tahoe Sunset | Photo: Edgewood Tahoe “Tahoe” – it sounds as weak as soup for a sick infant. “I hope some bird will catch this Grub the next time he calls Lake Bigler by so disgustingly sick and silly a name as “Lake Tahoe…” Of course, Indian names are more fitting than any others for our beautiful lakes and rivers, which knew their race ages ago, perhaps, in the morning of creation, but let us have none so repulsive to the ear as “Tahoe” for the beautiful relic of fairy-land forgotten and left asleep in the snowy Sierras when the little elves fled from their ancient haunts and quitted the earth. ![]() Here’s an example of what he wrote in the Territorial Enterprise Newspaper about what Lake Tahoe should be called: ![]() Like any great pundits of their time, sometimes Mr. His Thoughts On It Being Called Lake Tahoe Map of Nevada in the 1860s from the And why shouldn’t it be? It is the same the angels breathe. “The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine. “As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.” “…the Lake burst upon us-a noble sheet of blue water lifted six thousand three hundred feet above the level of the sea and walled in by a rim of snow-clad mountain peaks that towered aloft full three thousand feet higher still!” To exude his passion for this body of water while best explaining its beauty, here are a few examples: When Mark Twain laid eyes on Lake Tahoe, it sparked something deep within his soul to write about it. Here are a few of his most “electric” quotes about Lake Tahoe and the surrounding area. Many of his quotes inspire yet others make you scratch your head. There isn’t another person so intertwined with the Lake Tahoe region. As John Muir is to Yosemite, Mark Twain is to Lake Tahoe. ![]()
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