In addition to subsistence farming, these early residents could pick up business from travelers along the California Trail, which followed the Truckee westward, before branching off towards Donner Lake, where the formidable obstacle of the Sierra Nevada began.
Ademais da agricultura de subsistencia, estes primeiros residentes puideron incorporarse a empresas a partir de viaxeiros ao longo do California Trail, que seguiu cara ao oeste de Truckee, antes de ramificarse para Donner Lake, o obstáculo de Sierra Nevada comezou.