The Sacramento Bee of Dec. 24, 1908, ran the following article with a Klamath Falls, Ore., dateline:

In February 1937, the vessel Cottoneva docked in Port Orford, Ore., to take on a load of lumber. It would be its final stop.

Oregon state Route 62 in the 1950s was a very curvy road from the Rogue Valley to Crater Lake. Children crammed in the back seat of a stuffy car welcomed a stop for fresh air and a cold drink at Wildwood Camp’s Cascade Gorge Store just south of Prospect, Ore.

Although legendary cattle drives are frequently associated with states such as Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, stockmen in Oregon and Northern California drove not only cattle but also horses, mules and sheep in the days before railroads and trucks reached the region.

In 1871, authorities found the body of a man floating in shallow water near a railroad bridge in Vallejo, Calif. He was dressed like a gentleman, with a diamond ring on his finger and money in his pockets. He was later identified as Butler Ives, a surveyor of the Oregon Territory during its rough-and-tumble, early days.

For nearly 50 years, a 1959 Fiat 500 has perched on a pole above a stack of wheels on a car lot near Talent, Ore. There’s a story behind that car on a pole. It starts with Jim Walker, owner of the Jim’s Better Buys lot.

The early 20 th century actor Jack Holt, who at one time had been a resident of Klamath County, was known for his Westerns. Movies were silent with musical accompaniment before sound movies arrived.

Zella Wright and her husband, Herb, spent the winter of 1942-43 as lookouts scanning the skies for enemy aircraft for the Army Air Corps Aircraft Warning Service. Their lookout was on 6,000-foot-high Blue Rock Peak in the mountains east of Butte Falls, Ore.

Christmas Valley cowboy Reub Long, co-author of the book titled The Oregon Desert , wrote that before the early 1920s, “No town was much until it had a livery barn.”

Jewish emigrants fleeing anti-Semitic violence in Russia established the New Odessa farming colony in 1883 near present-day Glendale, Ore.