Alpine and Subalpine Vegetation of the Lake Tahoe Region. F. J. Smiley, 1915. Botanical Gazette 59, no. 4 (April): 265-286.
Includes information about geology, topology, climate (with temperature and precipitation charts) and lists of plants in the vegetation zones.

Lake of the Sky: Lake Tahoe. George Wharton James, 1915. New York: J. F. Tapley Co.
A 385-page digital book. A history of the earlier years of the Tahoe area. Includes photographs; Tahoe-related appendices on Mark Twain, Thomas Starr King, John Le Conte, and John Vance Cheney (with excerpts of their writings) and resorts.

Lake Tahoe Lumber Operations. (Scientific American, 1877). 1877. Scientific American (November 10): 291.
A short piece describing the lumber industry in the Tahoe area in 1877.

Letters no. 1, 2, and 3 in A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. Isabella Bird, 1879.
Letters written to her sister during her six-month journey by train and on horseback in the autumn and winter of 1873 from San Francisco to the Rockies. The first three pertain to the time she spent near Lake Tahoe. Originally published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York.