The autobiography of Bill Anderson, who developed Ponderosa Ranch at Incline Village, now is on sale.
Anderson dropped out of school in the third grade, survived in childhood by eating road kill and scavenging for recyclables in dumps, then parlayed his intimate knowledge of junk into a small business empire, capped by building The Ponderosa, at Lake Tahoe.
His life story, "Bill's Big Bonanza: The Autobiography of a Third-Grade Dropout Who Came to Build, Own and Operate the World's Most Famous Ranch," was published this month.
The 152-page coffee table-sized paperback priced at $19.95 includes 120 photographs.
It can be purchased at Sundance Bookstore in Reno; the Ponderosa Ranch in spring; beginning Nov.
15 at Community Threads and Things, 80 Shady Lane, in Dayton; or by $26 money order or cashier's check to Sharon Anderson, P.O.
Box 251, Dayton, NV 89403.
