Tahoe Heritage: The Bliss Family Of Glenbrook, Nevada

by Sessions S Wheeler, William W. Bliss

Overview

Tahoe Heritage is a lively chronicle of four generations of the pioneering Bliss family, beginning with Duane L. Bliss, a visionary who built an impressive lumbering business and later the renowned Glenbrook Inn. The inn was completed in 1907 and quickly became a destination for the elite of San Francisco. The hotel register contains the names of national figures who loved and frequented Glenbrook: Ulysses Grant, Joaquin Miller, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Clark Gable, and Rita Hayworth, to name a few. The Bliss family closed the inn in 1976. Anyone who has visited the Tahoe area, now a very different place from the idyllic days of Bliss family management, will enjoy this account of its growth and the remarkable family which brought it about.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874174328
Publisher:	University of Nevada Press
Publication date:	04/01/1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Sessions "Buck" Wheeler (1911-1998) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno. He served as the first Director of the Nevada State Fish and Game Commission from 1947-50. As a writer, teacher and biologist, he received many awards and spent his life recording what he knew about his beloved Nevada.

A descendant of the pioneer family that first developed the community of Glenbrook at Lake Tahoe, Bill Bliss was the fourth-generation innkeeper at the Glenbrook Inn until it closed in 1976. He has become known in the last 15 years for his highly sought-after watercolors of Northern Nevada's rapidly vanishing historic buildings.

Table of Contents

Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Preface Chapter One. A Man Named Diston Chapter Two. Gold Hill, Nevada, 1864 Chapter Three. Early Settler from Maine Chapter Four. Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company Chapter Five. A Box of Letters Chapter Six. Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company Chapter Seven. To Nome Chapter Eight. Letters from Nome Chapter Nine. End of an Era Chapter Ten. Tahoe Water Chapter Eleven. Time of Change Chapter Twelve. A New Direction Chapter Thirteen. Fishing Chapter Fourteen. Rodeos Chapter Fifteen. Golf and Tennis Chapter Sixteen. The Final Years Epilogue Notes Index