The water of the Truckee River, which flows out of Lake Tahoe, is distributed by canals having an aggregate length of 670 miles.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
She liked Del Monte and Tahoe, herself, but she had come to Mill Valley now and then in the days of his first wild delight in its freedom and beauty, silk-gowned and white-gloved and very much disliking dust.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
And at nine o'clock that morning he stood on the bench of a timbered slope whence, looking downward through the trees, he got his first glimpse of Lake Gloria and of the rambling log house which Ben Gaynor had been prevailed on to build here in the wild, a dozen miles from the Lake Tahoe road.
"The Everlasting Whisper"
Jackson Gregory