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Hilariously High Hopes for Alpine in 1864
Hilariously High Hopes for Alpine County in 1864 We don’t know exactly who “Forty-Niner” was. But on February 10, 1864, someone penned a letter to the Sacramento Daily Union under that pseudonym. What we do know is that he was a resident of Silver Mountain City. And he was a little ticked off. […]
A Forgotten Bit of Silver Mountain history . . . .
A Forgotten Bit of Silver Mountain history It felt like a minor miracle when this slim legal document turned up on eBay. If the handwriting looked familiar, it should have; this was penned by none other than Lewis Chalmers – sometime hero, part-time villain, and all-time star of Alpine County’s early mining dramas. […]
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A Long-Lost Woodfords Mill
Thomas Knott Really Should Be Famous He hung out with Snowshoe Thompson. Built a sawmill in Carson Canyon way back in 1853, before it became Woodfords. Got stiffed by John Reese for a whopping $2 grand after building two more mills in Genoa. And left behind one of the most important (and most overlooked) historical accounts chronicling his life in early Carson Valley. […]
About Karen Dustman
Karen Dustman is a California-based journalist and author. From history to home improvement, natural health to self-help, she’s written about it during her twenty-year career. “The best part of being a writer is I get to write about whatever I’m interested in, and I’m interested in practically everything!” she laughs.
