Born in 1894, Alfred F. Ross, Jr. was the third generation of his family to call Shasta County, Calif., home. He was the son of Albert and Lizzie Greer Ross.

For a girl on the Oregon Coast in 1895, Francis Hofsess, her most prized possession was a plaster of Paris effigy of a lovely woman’s head and bust.

The Klamath County Museum’s latest e-mail newsletter contains a 130-year-old clipping from the Daily Astorian newspaper about a man who treed a buck deer. The story goes like this:

Adella V. Weaver spent her childhood in Yreka, Calif., where her father mined. In a memoir, she shared some interesting episodes, noting that she and other children had the freedom to roam at will.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet said “Let Hercules himself do what he may. The cat will mew and the dog will have his day.” One of those days was in April, 1981, when the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland needed a dog for the play “Two Gentleman of Verona.”

In 1879, famed science-fiction writer Jules Verne wrote a book about a utopian city called Ville-France, run by a French doctor, and a German city run by an evil scientist. The book was called “The Begum’s Fortune,” after an East Indian widow who bequeathed her riches to the two men.

Since 1993, the Klamath County Museum in Klamath Falls, Ore., has displayed a 7,700-year-old relic of the Mount Mazama volcanic explosion that created the Crater Lake caldera. The ancient object is known as the Mazama Tree.

The winter of 1889-90 was hard on man and beast in Trinity County, Calif. The snow was 17 feet deep at Denny. Deer perished by the hundreds and a local butcher, Jim Mullane, lost his entire beef herd.

Not far from Ashland, Ore., there are two deep, dead-end holes in a Siskiyou mountain.

In 1883, Ottilie Parker and her sister received an invitation to attend a spring wedding at Gold Beach, Ore., 70 miles from their home on the Coquille River.