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Trip Teaser - Nevada City to Donner Summit (PH 20-15)(1951) (23 pages)
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HIS IS TRIP TEASER No. 4. Once again we take to the highways, sleek and machinemade, built to carry the busiest traveler along at top speed.
It isn’t for him that I return to the regions of Trip Teaser No. 1, but again for the unhurried traveler's, the vacationist’s pleasure . . . the one with love for mountains, for quiet
Sierra lakes and meadows and brooks . . . for untouched green valleys.
It’s also for the one with an ear open to more than a century's half forgotten tales,
eager to learn the saga of the West's settling.
For underneath the sleekness of these very highways lie emigrant trails blazed by iron
shod wheels that scoured deep into stubborn granite. Over these trails ten thousand oxdrawn prairie schooners and wagons, carrying uncounted land and gold hungry people,
passed within ten years, beginning in 1844. Along the roads, in marked and unmarked
graves, rest those whose strength could not break the back-bone of the Sierra Nevada.
And also under the modern sleekness lie the early prospectors’ paths . . . the routes laid
by the first rail-road surveyors across the wilderness.
But not least of all, Trip Teaser No. 4 is for those millions who still think of the Sierra
as a snow-bound, hellish wilderness, unaware of its gentle summers. Certainly it is a wilderness, unexplored and untamed in parts; but . want to tell about swimming holes . . . hiking
trails . . .peaks to climb. . . lakes and streams and rivers to fish in. . . hunting camps. . . sweet
mountain air; in fact, about a SUMMER LAND surpassed nowhere.
We'll start at Nevada City and drive to the Heart of the Sierra, drive leisurely 50 miles
of State Highway 20 and U.S. 40 to the brink of Donner Pass.
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