Snowshoe Thom(p)son
(John Tostensen)
A True Pioneer
"...There ought to be a shaft raised to Snow-Shoe Thompson; not of marble; not carved and not planted
in the valley, but a rough shaft of basalt or of granite, massive and tall, with top ending roughly,
as if broken short, to represent a life which was strong and true to the last. And this should be
upreared on the summit of the mountains over which the strong man wandered so many years, as an
emblem of that life which was worn out apparently without an object..."
Attributed to: Dan DeQuille, Territorial Enterprise, May 19, 1876.
Dedicated this 10th day of July 1977, as a Founded and Endorsed Bicentennial Project, by the Nevada
members of the Ancient and Honorable Order of
E Clampus Vitus
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