Travelers in the early 1900s encountered many challenges and hazards in the rugged terrain of the Klamath Basin.

In 1865, Yreka, Calif., celebrated several Union victories in the far-off Civil War.

A 23-year-old school teacher, Lenora Johnson, became known as “Two-Gun Lenora” in 1932.

In September 1929, the body of Tuey Chung Fook was disinterred from the cemetery in Gold Beach, Ore., because of the Chinese desire that their dead be buried next to their ancestors.

Michael Hanley IV led a crew of pioneer reenactors from Winnemucca, Nev., to Central Point, Ore., in 1996, to celebrate the 150 th anniversary of the Applegate Trail.

The first school established in Quartz Valley was located along the Quartz Valley Road in Siskiyou County, Calif. Landowner Dennis Mulloy donated land for the school, built in 1860 a half mile west of the Shackleford Creek Bridge.

The original jail of Port Orford, Ore., still stands, though quite the worse for wear. Built in 1936 during the height of the timber industry, it was condemned in 1965. Since then, its window grills have rusted, turning its white walls a rusty brown on either side of its weather-beaten front door.

In 1910, two would-be pirates tried to steal gold from a ship without any.

Agriculture’s importance in Siskiyou County took hold in the last two decades of the 19 th century. One early operation was the Alex Parker cattle and stock ranch, nine miles from Callahan, Calif., and 19 miles from the nearest railroad station.

In the 1920s, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force, the Army Air Service, flew forest fire patrols throughout Oregon. By request that all airfields be named, Medford held a ceremony for that purpose in September 1920.