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STATES: THE PLACES WE RUN

 Books:

California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 32, January 1936

Leonard Davis, The True Origin and History Behind the Naming of Auburn, Roseville Historical Society, 1999

Erwin Gudde, California Place Names, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1949.

Erwin Gudde, California Gold Camps, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1975.

Francis P. Farquhar, Up and Down California in 1860-1864; The Journal of William H. Brewer, Book 4, Chapter 5, Yale University Press, 1930.

Jane Fiedler, A History of Squaw Valley, Self-published, 1977.

Hal V. Hall, Western States Trail Guide, Fifth Edition, Self-published by the Western States Trail Foundation, 2016.

W.B. Lardner and M.J. Brock, History of Placer and Nevada Counties California with Biographical Sketches, Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, California, 1924.

Rodi Lee and Michael G. Lynch, American River Canyon, Images of American, Arcadia Publishing, 2012.

George Wharton James, The Lake of the Sky, The Radiant Life Press, 1915.

Gene L. Markley, Bogus Thunder Mountains, Self-published, 1976. 

R.J. Steele, James P. Ball, and F.I. Houston, Placer County Directory of 1861, The Publishers, 1861.  Reprinted by the Placer County Historical Society.

Thompson & West, History of Placer County, Oakland, California, 1882.

Edward B. Scott, Squaw Valley, Crystal Bay, Sierra-Tahoe Publishing Co., 1960.

Henry L. Walsh, Hallowed Were the Gold Dust Trails, University of Santa Clara Press; 2nd Edition, January 1947.

Bill G. Wilson, Gold & Schemes… Unfulfilled Dreams – Stories of Guile, Greed & Great Promises, Self-published, Sponsored by the Placer County Historical Foundation, 2002.

Bill G. Wilson, Challenging the Mountains – The Life and Times of Wendell T. Robie, Robie Historical Foundation, 1998.

The American River – Insider’s Guide to Recreation, Ecology and Cultural History of the North, Middle and South Forks, Updated Third Edition, Protect American River Canyons, 2016

Articles:

R.M. Bucke, “Twenty-five Years Ago,” The Overland Monthly, Vol. 1, June 1883

Christina Richter, “A Glimpse into Placer County Water Reservoir History,” The Placer, March-April 2023

Wendell T. Robie, “History Record Western States Trail Route Prior to the Gold Rush,” unpublished and undated

Wendell T. Robie, “The Big Crevice,” unpublished and undated

Wendell T. Robie, “Lake Tahoe-Auburn Trail Ride, Trail History and Description,” Published by Tom Cromwell, 1955

Bob Suter, “A Small Company’s Power Project”, Sierra Heritage Magazine, Winter 1983.

Henry L. Walsh, “Hallowed Were The Gold Dust Trails,” January 1947,

Bill G. Wilson, “Foresthill History-Henry Ford Made It to Foothills,” December 4, 2013

Newspapers:

Bill Wilson, “Noted Figures of Michigan Bluff,” Auburn Sentinel, June 12, 1992

Unknown author, “The Ruck-A-Chucky Slide,” Placer Herald, March 9, 1940

Placer Herald, December 21, 1861

Tabloid:

The Pony Express, Sonora, California, July 1956.

Government Records/Studies:

Domestic Names Committee Decision on Robinsons Flat (06027111), U.S. Geological Survey, June 8, 1961

Placer County Place Names, Placer County Archives and Research Center, Auburn, California

National Register of Historic Places, Michigan Bluff/Last Chance Trail, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, June 26, 1992.

National Register of Historic Places, Mountain Quarries Bridge, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, February 11, 2004.

U.S. Department of the Interior, American River-National Recreation Area Feasibility Study, September 1990

U.S. Department of the Interior/U.S. Geological Survey, Hydroelectric Power Systems of California, Frederick Hall Fowler.

Letters:

Letter from Wendell T. Robie to Reid Jackson, Tahoe National Forest Acting Supervisor, dated May 3, 1972

Oral Histories:

Matt Langstaff interview conducted by Norman McLeod on November 7, 1986; transcribed by Patsy Wortell Larney, October 29, 1987.

Other:

Norm McLeod, Nuggets from the Past, Personal Notes from Gene Markley’s Gold Camp Class, undated.

May Perry, “Yankee Jim’s,” Placer Nugget, October 1963

Western States Trail Ride, Inc., The Western States Trail – History and Description, undated and unpublished;

Google Bard, April 2023.

Endurance Capital of the World Committee meeting agendas and minutes, dated September 15, 2021; January 19, 2022; March 16, 2022; and, May 18, 2022.

Websites:

History Expeditions, https://historyexp.org/grosh-brothers-expedition-2023/

Steven Agar, 3,347 Acre Donation to Tahoe National Forest Added to Granite Chief Wilderness, https://snowbrains.com/staging/donation-tahoe-granite-chief-wilderness/, September 6, 2017.

Grosh Brothers - Myth-Busting the Myth Bibliography

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BOOKS

Jane Fiedler, A History of Squaw Valley, Self-published, 1977. Pages 22-26.

Lyndall Baker Landauer, The Mountain Sea – A History of Lake Tahoe, Flying Cloud Press, 1996. Page 52.

W.B. Lardner and M.J. Brock, History of Placer and Nevada Counties California with Biographical Sketches.  Los Angeles:  Historic Record Co., 1924.  Pages 46-48, 227.

Gene Markley, Hills of the Coyote, First Publication, 1980. Pages 17-18.

Norman McLeod.  Distant Voices, Different Drums – A Collection of True Stories, High Drama at Last Chance, 1991. Chapter 7: High Drama at Last Chance. Pages 67-71.

Dan De Quille (William Wright), The Big Bonanza, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.  Pages 14-15.

Margaret Sanborn, The American (River of El Dorado), Holt, Rinhart and Winston, 1974. Chapter 17, Last Chance. Pages 204-211.

Edward B. Scott, The Saga of Lake Tahoe, Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe: Sierra-Tahoe Publishing Co., 1957. Pages 1-2.

Edward B. Scott, Squaw Valley, Crystal Bay, Sierra-Tahoe Publishing Co., 1960. Pages 7-8, 87

Thompson and West, pub.  History of Nevada 1881 with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers.  Berkeley, California:  Howell-North, 1958. Pages 51-54.

Thompson & West, History of Placer County, Oakland, California, 1882, Page 406

Bill G. Wilson, Gold & Schemes… and Unfulfilled Dreams.  Self-published., 2002. Grosch Brothers Found Silver Lode – A Nevada Secret Left in Last Chance Grave, Pages 76-77.

Ronald M. James and Robert E. Steward.  The Gold Rush Letters – E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh.  Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press. 2012.

Sally Zanjani, Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began, Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press. 2006.  Pages 41-46.

James H. Coyne.  Richard Maurice Bucke – A Sketch, Toronto: Henry S. Saunders, 1923, Revised edition Reprinted from the Transactions of The Royal Society of Canada, 1906. Chapters: Adventures in the West, Pages 16-23; and, A Tramp Over the Mountains. Pages 24-29, 33.

Charles Howard Shinn, The Story of the Mine, D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1896, Chapter V. Pages 26-33.

Eliot Lord, Comstock Mining and Miners, 1883.

Sam P. Davis, History of Nevada, Early Mining Discoveries, Chapter XIII, Volume I, 1913.  Pages 381-390. 

George Lyman, The Saga of the Comstock Lode, 1934.

Peter Rechnitzer, R. M. Bucke-Journey to Cosmic Consciousness, 1994.

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume XXV, History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming (1540-1888), 1890, Page 98, footnote 9.

Mark Twain, The Innocents at Home, George Routledge & Sons, 1872.

C.B. Glasscock, The Big Bonanza – The Story of the Comstock Lode, 1931.

J.A. Comstock, A History & Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America, The Comstock Lode and Henry Tompkins Paige Comstock, 1949. Pages 505-509.

Thomas Wren, A History of the State of Nevada: Its Resources and People. Pages 38-39.

Robert Ruxton, The Tale of Silver, 1907. Pages 9-10.

Ronald M. James, The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press. 1998, Pages 3-4, 6, 13.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

J.B. Roberts II, “The Brothers Grosh,” Nevada: The Magazine of the Real West, December 1990.  Pages 48-52.

Ron Soodalter, “Nevada Part II: From Strikes to Statehood,” Nevada Magazine, December 2013. 

Cyril Greenland, “Historical Note – Richard M. Bucke, M.D. 1837-1902 – The Evolution of a Mystic,” April 1966.  Page 3

Sally Zanjani, “How Nevada Began: Early Prospectors on the Comstock,” 2007 Mining History Journal, 2007.

Unknown author, “Sierra Rescue… But a Secret Dies,” Unknown source and date.

Unknown author, “Brothers’ Letters Relate Mining Hopes, Sorrows,” Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 9, 2008. (https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/brothers-letters-relate-mining-hopes-sorrows/)

Caroline Lawrence, “Bonanza Denied by Pickax and Jackass.” Wonders & Marvels. Undated. (https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/10/bonanza-denied-by-pickax-and-jackass.html).

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

San Francisco Call, From Early Days: The Silver Discovery in Washoe Valley – How Francis Hoover Found & Lost Wealth, Vol. 75, No. 157, May 6, 1894

Sacramento Daily Union – The Grosch Brothers in WASHOE, Volume 25, Number 3870, August 17, 1863, Page 5, Column 5

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 29, Number 4452, June 28, 1865

The Daily Sun, Comstock Lode Name is Wrong, March 15, 1957, Page 26

Auburn Journal, The Grosh Brothers, Volume 6, Number 3, October 16, 1889

Auburn Journal, Volume 6, Number 5, October 30, 1889, Page 3

The Placer Herald, Placer’s Big Tree, W.B. Lardner, Volume LXVIII, Number 6, August 21, 1920

Tahoe Topical, The Discovery of Silver on the Comstock and the Groshes Bros., by Marshall W. McDonald, June 14, 1946

Sacramento Daily Union, The Grosch [sic: Grosh] Brothers in WASHOE, Volume 25, Number 3870, August 17, 1863, Page 5, Column 5

The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald, July 13, 1880, page 7

Daily Alta California, Volume 15, Number 4983, October 20, 1863

San Francisco Evening Bulleting, March 9, 1865

The London Advertiser, Discovery of The Comstock, December 16, 1897

Mountain Democrat, Grosh Brothers: Forgotten cache reveals Comstock discovery, Karl Grubaugh, August 15, 1997. 

Tahoe Topics, The Discover of Silver on the Comstock and the Groshes Bros, Old Virginny’s Town, Marshall W. McDonald, June 14, 1946. 

Auburn Sentinel, The Grave Claimed This Mining Secret, Bill Wilson, September 25, 1992. Pages 8 and 10.

Looking Backward: 100 Years Ago – December 26, 1857, Blizzard Traps, No date (Source: Wendell T. Robie).

PERIODICALS

Austin E. Hutcheson, “Before the Comstock 1857-1858: Memoirs of William Hickman Dolman,” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 22, Number 3, July 1947

R.M. Bucke, 25 Years Ago, The Discoveries of Silver in Nevada, Overland Monthly Vol 1, June 1883, Pages 553-560.

Hal V. Hall, “Grosh Brothers Story,” Tevis Forum. 

OTHER SOURCES

Charles T. Wegman and George C. Harvilla, The Letters of Ethan Allen and Hosea Ballou Grosh 1849-1857, unpublished, which includes Schuyler Colfax Letter to A.B. Grosh, January 18, 1880.

Western Libraries, Western Libraries, London, Canada – Dr. R.M. Bucke and Dr. Edwin Seaborn Fonds (diary, unpublished manuscript, and maps collection)

London Public Library, London, Canada – Seaborn map collection of the Grosh/Bucke trans-Sierra journey)

Pacific Coast Annual Mining Review, Henry S. Fitch, Volume 1, 1878, Pages 150-151

University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Yale University Library Digital Collections

Annual Report of the Surveyor-General of the State of Nevada, for the year 1865, Page 19.

May W. Perry.  “Placer County Big Trees.”  Placer Nugget.  Auburn, CA:  Placer County Historical Society.  Pages 4-5.  Perry wrote various articles for the Nugget during the 1960’s.

“Looking Backward: 100 Years Ago – Perilous Adventure,” December 26, 1857, Blizzard Traps, Not dated (Source: Wendell T. Robie)

History as Made in the Gold County – Grosh Brothers Discovery of Silver – Comstock Lode.  Tape recording of Historical Facts and Antidotes as Researched and Narrated by Wendell T. Robie on KAHI Radio, moderated by Gene Ragle (25 minutes).  January 24, 1960.   

Mark McLaughlin.  “Ghosts of Gold Hill Nevada (Part 2).”  Tahoe Nuggets #185.  May 23, 2010.  Website: www.thestormking.com. 

Ronald M. James, The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press. 1998, Pages 3-4, 6, 13.

Martin Griffith.  “Brothers’ Letters a Mother Lode of Gold Rush life.”  Associated Press, June 15, 2008.

Kathy Weiser, Tragedies of Gold Seekers, Legends of America, 1922 (updated September 2020), Pages 4-5

Cyril Greenland, Historical Note: Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., 1837-1902, Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, Vol. II, No. 2, Pages 146-148.

John L. Cowan, “Romance of Mining Strikes,” undated.

Chuck Lyons, “The Bank Crowd and Silver Kings Made a Fortune from the Comstock,” January 9, 2017.

Grosh Collection at the Nevada Historical Society, 1650 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89503.

The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has a collection of Grosh-related documents, including letters between Aaron B. Grosh and Richard Maurice Bucke as well as the aforementioned Gold Rush Letters – E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh. (http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b11219387~S1)

Daniel Harper, “Yet another obscure Universalist x 2,” May 21, 2010 (https://www.danielharper.org/blog/?p=6985)

Paul Harvey’s “Rest of the Story” (https://youtube/bxYtoYep9wY) 

MAPS

University of California Berkely, Bancroft’s Map of the Washoe Silver Region of Nevada Territory, 1862

Map of Silver Mines near Virginia City, 1878

Map of Comstock Lode and Washoe Mining Claims, 1875

Western Libraries, Western Libraries, London, Canada – Dr. R.M. Bucke and Dr. Edwin Seaborn Fonds (maps collection)

London Public Library, London, Canada – Seaborn maps collection of the Grosh/Bucke trans-Sierra journey