Born in Louisiana in 1901, Carlton Errol Morse became the oldest of six children. His family moved often, coming west to San Francisco in 1906. The same year they relocated to a fruit and dairy farm on Anderson Creek near Talent, Ore.

In the movie, four boys are walking across a railroad bridge, one of them on hands and knees. The bridge has no railings and drops off about 100 feet to the rocky water below. The train arrives, and the crawling boy can’t escape in time. After a hair-raising moment, one of the other boys goes back to get him and they both tumble over the end of the bridge to safety.

Steam rising next to the Klamath Falls A-Canal bike trail on winter mornings draws swimmers to the Ella Redkey Pool.

Thomas King was born in Ireland and left home at age 12, roamed the United Kingdom until he committed a felony, and was shipped to confinement in Australia.

In 1946, while cleaning out an old building to house the Yreka office of the California Highway Department, an employee found a battered old account book. It contained the records for the pioneer store of F.J. King from the years 1868 to 1871. The account book is preserved at the Siskiyou County Historical museum, offering a fascinating glimpse into pioneer life.

In 1843, one of the first things the new governor of the Oregon Territory did was try to find a better Oregon Trail.

Homemade remedies substituted for medicines in mining camps and early settlers’ homes. The Van Matre family of Trinity County concocted a variety of remedies.

On July 6, 1915, a baseball excursion train with two passenger cars carrying teams and fans from Grants Pass and Medford, Ore., was returning from games in Montague, Calif. The excursion train was following a few minutes behind regularly scheduled Train No. 12.

Electric power is taken for granted today, but in the late 19 th century it was experimental at best.

There’s no doubt that in general Chinese miners were ill-treated in the mining camps of California. Still, there were exceptions and one such story comes from Trinity County.