THE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION         
     has an ongoing Campaign for a  
     Snowshoe Thompson commemorative  
     stamp to be issued by the  
     United States Congress...
 
     also involved in the issuing of       
     Snowshoe Thompson Ski Patches and 
     Special First Day postmarked 
     envelopes.

Excerpted from the Sacramento Daily Union - 1856

Mr. John A. Thompson, who resides on Putah Creek, in Yolo county, left Carson Valley on Tuesday morning last, and reached this city at noon yesterday. Mr. T. is engaged in conveying an express to and fro from "the Valley." Mr. Thompson was three days and a half in coming through Carson Valley, and used on the snow the Norwegian skates, which are manufactured of wood, and some seven feet in length. He furthermore states that he found the snow about five feet deep between Slippery Ford and the summit, a distance of eight miles, and on the average elsewhere in the mountains, three feet deep. Mr. Thompson left Placerville for Carson Valley on January 3rd, and leaves again on his transmontane trip this day.




Snowshoe Thompson died on his ranch in Diamond Valley on May 15, 1876. He was buried in Genoa, Nevada, where his widow erected a stone with crossed skis to mark his grave.


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