CHAPTER XI.
LAKE TAHOE AND THE TRUCKEE RIVER As is well known, the Truckee River is the only outlet to Lake Tahoe.
This outlet is on the northwest side of the Lake, between Tahoe City and Tahoe Tavern, and is now entirely controlled by the concrete dam and head-gates referred to in the chapter on "Public uses of the Water of Lake Tahoe." When Fremont came down from Oregon in 1844, he named the river _Salmon Trout River_, from the excellent fish found therein, but the same year, according to Angel, in his _History of Nevada_, a party of twenty-three men, enthused by the glowing accounts they had heard of California, left Council Bluffs, May 20th, crossed the plains in safety, and reached the Humboldt River.

Here an Indian, named Truckee, presented himself to them and offered to become their guide.

After questioning him closely, they engaged him, and as they progressed, found that all his statements were verified.

He soon became a great favorite among them, and when they reached the lower crossing of the river (now Wadsworth), they were so pleased by the pure water and the abundance of the fish to which he directed them, that they named the stream "Truckee" in his honor.
This Capt.

Truckee was the chief of the Paiutis, and the father of Winnemucca (sometimes known as Poito), and the grandfather of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, long known in Boston and other eastern cities, where she lectured under the patronage of Mrs.Horace Mann, Mrs.Ole Bull, Miss Longfellow, and other prominent women, as the Princess Sallie.