Klamath
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Klamaths,
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Klamath
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In 2024, crews finished demolishing four dams on the Klamath River, completing the largest dam removal effort in U.S. history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Scott River flows into the Klamath downstream from where the dams stood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
It was in that position, in the early aughts, that Bonham first became immersed in the fierce disagreement over what to do with scarce water in the Klamath Basin — irrigate farms or protect salmon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
Many children in Klamath attend school in Crescent City and rely upon the campus’s free meals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Klamath weed, quite unlike such native plants as sagebrush, has no place in the ecology of the region, and no animals or other plants require its presence.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
They went back to their old place, and declared they would die rather than go to live with the Klamaths again.
From Forty-Six Years in the Army by John M. Schofield
The Delawares, we had four with us, were sleeping at that fire, and they sprang up as the Klamaths charged them.
From Christopher Carson by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
About the time that we were thoroughly organized it was reported that the Pah-Utes and the Klamaths were all coming to join Captain Jack.
From Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West by William F. Drannan
At the north lived the Klamaths, Siskiyous, Shastas, and the savage Modocs, whose months of fighting in the lava beds caused the death of General Canby and many soldiers.
From Stories of California by Ella M. Sexton
Indians belonging to this agency are the Klamaths and Modocs, and the Yahooskin and Wal-pah-pee bands of Snakes, numbering altogether about 4,000, of whom only 1,018 are reported at the agency.
From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker
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