For most of that time, the Lake was unknown and sparsely populated. In his forward, Bill Craven says: “Fallen Leaf Lake’s happiest years occurred during the one-hundred-year period of this book. And she was wise enough to enlist the memories of Bill and Barbara Craven, among others, who, after many years at Fallen Leaf Lake still reside there. Janet Beales Kaidantzis, in her just-published book “Fallen Leaf: A Lake and its People 1850-1950,” presents this beautifully. It’s all intertwined and the early tales let us know that the sum of these parts made, and even now if you look at the whole scheme of things, still makes a perfect whole. Tallac, Homewood, Freel Peak, Emerald Bay and so many more intriguing places. With each book I read about Lake Tahoe and its early settlers, I am reminded that this lovely region isn’t made up of just a few parts: Lake Tahoe, Fallen Leaf Lake, Desolation Wilderness and all the bodies of water there, Glen Alpine Springs, Mt.