Letter I:
Lake Tahoe — Morning in San Francisco — Dust — A Pacific Mail-Train — Digger
Indians — Cape Horn — A Mountain Hotel — A
Pioneer — A Truckee Livery Stable — A Mountain Stream — Finding
a Bear — Tahoe
written by Isabella Lucy Bird, 1831-1904; in A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882), 8-22