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Show AMERICANA Places To S Oregon's Klamath Counfry h ; v rK v ? ' s " i I- . f 4 ! v i'i!' x " ? a n p "i I. lv: - n ?. . , ,v s x ! i-,'vN-H- x , - t ; if J X 4 o x x xx , i-t''jJi vf r x Oregon's famous Klamath Country is a tucked away year-round playground In legendary Indian country. The word Klamath was taken from the tribe ol Indians catted Klamath by early white travelers. First appearance of the name, according to McArthur's "Oregon Geographic Names" is In a letter from Peter Skene Ogden, dated July 1, 1826. Ogden was in Klamath County in the fall of that Early settlers faced intermittent trouble with the original Americans, Ameri-cans, ranging from small raids and forays, including the massacres mas-sacres of the wagon trains at Bloody Point in 1852. Klamath lay on the direct route of the widely known "South Road" path of countless wagon trains of Western West-ern settlers of the Northwest In 1867, Ceorge Nurse, a mer-chant mer-chant from Fort Klamath, built what was to be the start of (Je town of Linkville, which in 1893 was Incorporated as Klamath Falls. The Klamath Country is widely known as a hunter's and fisherman's fisher-man's paradise. The area is located lo-cated on the main Pacific flyway for migratory waterfowl. Upland birds include Chinese pheasants and both mountain and valley quail. A great herd of mule deer range over the mountainous area east of Klamath Falls. Bear and elk may be hunted in the region west of Upper Klamath Lake. There are over 100 lake". In the Klamath Country. Most famous fishing spots include Crater Lake, Diamond Lake, Crescent Lake, Sprague River, and the Chewau-can Chewau-can River, where winter fishing is permitted. Klamath FaUs, a city of 21,000. is a gateway to famed Crater Lake, shown in the accompanying photograph. Wizard Island thrusts itself 763 feet above the blue surface sur-face of Crater Lake. The island, scientists say, is a volcano formed on the floor of Mt. Mazama after the summit of the ancestral mountain moun-tain had been destroyed in a cataclysmic eruption. Crater walls in the background are a part of the old mountain. Water from snows filled the crater to a depth of 200 feet. |