The Klamath Reservation tribes were very proud of their kiuks, known by outsiders as Indian doctors or shamans. One of the most respected was David Chocktoot, or Big Hearted Indian.

In 1876, a small party started out on horseback to see that magnificent lake high in the Cascades some were beginning to call Crater Lake.

Federal troops were so busy with the Civil War in 1863 that they enlisted the voluntary First Oregon Cavalry to build Fort Klamath. Its mission was to contain Indian resistance to the loss of their homeland to settlers arriving by the thousands on the Applegate Trail.

The early settlers of Yreka quickly learned to fear fire and its catastrophic effects.

Joseph Endert, his mother, stepfather and 11 siblings left Ohio for Del Norte, Calif., after hearing of its fruitful farmland. They reached San Francisco and took a side-wheeler boat to Crescent City, arriving in 1871.

The only Jackson County sheriff ever killed in the line of duty, August Singler, died in 1913 in an exchange of gunfire with 19-year-old fugitive Lester Jones.

William D. Mathews Sr. was born in Fort Jones, Calif., to Israel S. and Ann Mathews—both early pioneers of Siskiyou County. William’s father was one of the earliest pioneers to enter Scott Valley.

Many early-day logging companies around the world used a curious looking piece of equipment called a “Walking Dudley,” described as a power car on rails.

Amos Earle Voorhies came to Oregon from Michigan looking for work as a journalist in 1891.

Music and politics seem to go together, but in 1904, a welcoming band received the bad end of the deal.