# The Story

Source page: https://carsonriverresorts.com/story

From the sources

The East Fork runs past the cabins at 5,530 feet. Silver fever built a
county here in 1864 — eleven thousand people, by the claims of the day; the
census of 1870 counted six hundred and eighty-five. From 1867 to 1895 the
log drives ran cordwood down this water to the Comstock mills. A Norwegian
farmer crossed these mountains on ten-foot oak skis for twenty winters to
carry the mail, and Congress never paid him a dollar.

A fishing camp took root on the flat around 1920, and it has outlasted the
Depression, the 1950 flood and the Tamarack Fire. The eight stories below
are drawn from [the record that survives](/papers) — a survey, a land
patent, census returns, the newspapers of the day — and their dates are
collected in the ledger beside them.

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