The town of Upton is among the many that no longer exist in Northern California’s Siskiyou County.

Just a year after establishment of the mining camp of Sailors' Diggings in a remote forested area of Southwestern Oregon near the California border, the usual mayhem of such places exploded with a mass shooting.

On June 16, 1883, the Del Norte Record newspaper published a column titled “News of the Week.” It offers a glimpse into early-day life on the Southern Oregon Coast.

When the twin-propeller steamer Mazama made the first trip up the crooked Wood River 110 years ago, the feat was hailed as an easy route to Crater Lake.

In 1877, three businessmen put up $1,500 each to start a new business in Redding, Calif. The investors were Dr. Louis Wellendorf, James McCormick and Ruldoph Saeltzer. A year later, Dr. Wellendorf sold his interest to Williamson Lyncoya Smith.

As Western gold miners moved inland, expanding their reach from coastal ports, it became necessary to build supply trails.

In 1945, Gloria attended her friend’s wedding in the Bronx, New York, and met her best man, Glenn Ray.

Trained as a lawyer and teacher, Iowa-born Fred DeKor preferred stunt flying, especially looping the loop, flying upside down, spiral diving and other thrills. Born in Iowa in 1878, DeKor had passed the Wisconsin Law School bar exam in 1910, but became better known as a daring “birdman” whose aerial acrobatics thrilled crowds across the country.

Esther “Etta” Soulé was born in a log house in the Little Shasta Valley in Siskiyou County, Calif. She and several other Soulé children grew up in the area and were educated at a rough-board, box-shaped schoolhouse built in 1860.

In 1963, lightning struck the house of Charles and Ruth Capello in the small logging town of Butte Falls, Ore., burning it to the ground. The community’s old fire truck had a dead battery and the Forest Service was not prepared to fight a house fire.