Miles Henry Jackson earned the nickname “Rattlesnake Pete” when he walked to Klamath Falls from Portland after serving with the Canadian military in World War I. A rattlesnake headband circled his western style hat, complemented by a buckskin jacket and pistols.

Thousands of Chinese worked and lived in Northern California during the gold rush. One of their Taoist temples of worship, the Weaverville Joss House, is the oldest continuously operating one in California. It was built in 1874, replacing earlier structures destroyed by fire.

George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving in 1789 and Abraham Lincoln established in 1853 that Thanksgiving would be the last Thursday in November.

The Medford High School released classes for a week on Monday, Oct. 6, 1919, to allow students to pick apples in the orchards surrounding the Southern Oregon city.

Low water resulting from an 1889 drought in the Rogue Valley reduced water in the streams and curtailed mining operations. But by the second week of January 1890, snow began to fall and temperatures plummeted.

The Southeast Oregon and Northeast California lava landscape contains many caves, one of the most noted being Captain Jack’s Stronghold. Another significant cave was discovered in the spring of 1863 north of Mount Shasta near Sheep Rock.

He had already been a Spanish American War volunteer lieutenant, world traveler and newspaperman, but Albert Cooper Allen sought new horizons in Oregon.

In 1907, an entrepreneur arrived in Crescent City, Calif., with big plans for the Lake Earl lagoon close to the Pacific Ocean 11 miles south of the Oregon border.

Some 50 years after it closed, traces of the Klamath Falls city zoo remain at Moore Park, with slabs of concrete marking what were once pens holding bears, cougars and other animals.

Driving home one day in 1941, Archie McVay of Harbor, Ore., saw Willis Belknap walking beside the road.