When the gold rush town of Jacksonville, Ore., attracted thousands of miners in 1852, two men started a lucrative pack train business to bring supplies to the miners. The partners, Viet Schutz and Peter Britt, invested their earnings in the future.

German immigrants of Trinity County, Calif., formed the German Hospital Society on Feb. 1, 1856.

On February 22, 1927, a winter storm slammed the coast of Del Norte County, Calif., leaving behind two weeks of destruction.

In the spring of 1924, rumors began to fly that a Ku Klux Klan organization was being organized in Curry County, Ore.

In the mid-1920s, armed robbery was frequent in Ashland Ore.

In November 1933, Doris Sparks and Andrea Mardelle stepped into their car in Spokane, planning to drive all night to Klamath Falls to meet up with Doris’ fiancé. The two cosmetics demonstrators were never heard from again.

Descendants of early Irish immigrants who became sheepherders and cattlemen still live in the Southeastern Oregon town of Lakeview.

In 1852, Crescent City got permission from the State of California to build a dock for supply ships, but the Northern California harbor village didn’t get a dock until 1860 when an impatient businessman built it himself. It promptly washed away in the first major storm.

Excitement spread through Klamath Falls, Ore., as the first train connecting it with the outside world neared town.

In 1985, a member of the Klamath Indian tribe, Edison Chiloquin, achieved his dream of gaining title to his ancestral home in Southern Oregon.