It was called everything from irruption and infestation to invasion and overpopulation. Whatever the word, the Klamath and Tule Lake basins had as many as 3,000 to 4,000 meadow mice per acre in 1957-1958. The cause of the rodent outbreak remains unknown.

Siskiyou County and many other areas in northern California and Southern Oregon suffered severely in the winter of 1861-62. Every river swelled over its banks, taking out bridges and wiping out homesteads. And still the rains continued.

No one knew the exact age of Sargent Sambo, but the aged Indian was coherent when interviewed in 1961 by Northern California newspapers. He said “Sambo” was his father’s name and “Sargent” came from a soldier, but his Indian name was Ah Kee Ah Humpy.

An unusual increase in voter registration before the 1907 elections in Grants Pass, Ore., alerted the city recorder to possible fraud.

Some soldiers at Fort Klamath in the winter of 1867 relieved their boredom by producing a humble, hand-written newspaper they called The Growler . One of its stories made national news.

Jefferson Public Radio broadcast an As It Was story last month about ballet dancer Janet Reed Erskine, who was born in Tolo, Ore. The story’s sources identified her as Odette the swan queen in the first full-length American production of Swan Lake.

When the musical titled “Dr. Doolittle” came out in 1967, few people realized how exceptional it was to include 1,200 trained animals in a single movie. All the animals were supplied by Roy G. Kabat, whose Animal Actors Co. worked with exotic and domestic animals for movies and television and had a small traveling circus.

The Quinn Martin film company approached Siskiyou County rancher Gary Gragnani in 1977 about filming scenes for the TV movie titled “Standing Tall” on Gragnani’s Shasta Spring Ranch in Edgewood, Calif.

In the 1890’s, Charlie Gilmore and a partner had mined out a pocket of gold on Green Creek. Gilbert used his earnings to build a hotel, store, and livery stable at what became known as Tigertown, Ore.

Mining along Greenhorn Creek south of Yreka, Calif., was very rich from the 1850’s into the early 1900’s. It has been estimated that a five-mile stretch produced $11 million worth of gold during that time.