W. F. Edwards Tourists Guide and Directory on the Truckee Basin - Irons, Charles D., complier. 1883 Truckee: "Republican" Job Print, 1883. First edition (Paher, 539 "scarce"). Original brown cloth, gilt lettered on the front, decorated in gilt and blind, pink endpapers, illustrated with 11 inserted plates, 138 pages with 35 pages of merchant advertisements at the rear. Edwards was the publisher of the "Truckee Republican" newspaper. A history of Truckee, Donner Lake and neighboring settlements; history of newspapers in Truckee; an account of the "601" (an organization similar to the Vigilantes of California); and accounts of the natural wonders, the industries, and deserted villages, and "Incidents". With directories of Boca, Clinton, Truckee, residents on Lake Tahoe. Edwards' preface is of interest. Here, he states he drew from Bean's Nevada County Directory, the Truckee Republican, the Nevada City Transcript and Maj. Ben C. Truman's guide. "To prepare these pages, old files have been scanned, histories searched, legends unearthed, old citizens interviewed, resorts visited.." The first inserted plate is the frontis, "Donner Lake". Blank frontis page penciled record on the recto of the owner of this book, dated July 31st 1897 and a Mr. R.L. Smith of Port Angelus Wash. The original blue cloth cover moderately rubbed with bright gilt. The front free endpaper cleanly torn out. A very rare directory of Lake Tahoe and the Truckee region, the first of the area. Extremely Rare in this condition Truckee California