Topaz Lake
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Topaz Lake is a reservoir located on the California-Nevada border, about 75 miles south of Reno. The census-designated place of Topaz Lake, Nevada, is located along its northwest shore.
from the Nevada side
Jedediah Smith
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Jedediah Strong Smith was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States,
Topaz Lake
…basin that had previously contained a smaller, natural lake. That lake had historical significance since it lay on the route taken by American explorer Jedediah Smith in late spring of 1827 when leaving California at the end of his first journey, the first crossing ever of the Sierra Nevada by a non-native. Smith…
Life portrait, said to have been drawn by a friend, from memory, after Smith's death
Lewis and Clark
Regions of the Missouri River Watershed
Arikara warrior Bodmer (1840–1843)