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Brushed metal plaque № 48849

Mogul, NV, United States

Truckee River. Native Americans settled for thousands of years in the Truckee Valley. Their camps were on these flats near the river. They used fish blinds near here and left petroglyphs on boulders in the area.The Truckee River runs from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake, and was first discovered by Capta

in John C. Frémont in January 1844.The Stephens-Murphy-Townsend party in 1844 also followed the Truckee River into the Sierra, and crossed the mountains via Donner Pass. Two years later, the ill-fated

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