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Trip Teaser - Nevada City to Donner Summit (PH 20-15)(1951) (23 pages)
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Page: of 23
ACK AT THE JUNCTION, you're less than thirty miles from the end of Trip Teaser
No. 4 at Donner Summit. You've come about twenty miles and have climbed about
1500 feet since leaving Nevada City, and the road continues up.
Driving is excellent; well graded curves and long, undulating stretches in a setting too
splendid to picture, lush and verdant and full.
The Ridge broadens again, and you catch glimpses of the ranges to the west as you
glide along. Now and then you pass dirt-road junctions, whose signs tell of once flourishing,
lively mining camps . . . Alpha, Omega, Chalk Bluff, Red Dog, You Bet . . . nothing there
At the town of Alpha, Emma Wixom was born in . ort Her father was the physician
there. She was a chubby, little girl with somber, hazel eyes and a voice with music in it. Over
this same route you've just come, Dr. Wixom took Emma for her first performance, at the
Baptist Church in Nevada City eighty years ago. She was so little that she had to be lifted to
a chair to sing her song. A few years later followed studies in Vienna, and at eighteen she
sang the role of Amina at her debut in Her Majesty's Opera House. And Emma Wixom became Emma Nevada, one of the greatest coloraturas of the victorian world.
Just as you swing around one of the gentle curves, historic Bear Valley or rather the
upper end of it, opens before you. You are at Bear Valley Grade. Why an observation
point hasn't been leveled from which to enjoy this grand view, I can’t understand; with a
plaque to boot, to tell some of the highlights of the pioneer drama that took place in this
valley . . . at Emigrant Gap across it . . . by the slopes of Red Mountain, Old Man Mountain
and the Cisco Buttes in the distance . . . history, tragic history .. hunger.. cannibalism..
of weak men and heroic men. Bear Valley is full of it.
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