Klamath Lakes

American  

plural noun

1. two lakes that drain into the Klamath River: one lake Upper Klamath Lake is in SW Oregon, and the other Lower Klamath Lake is in N California.

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Klamath Lakes

The tribes of this family appear from time immemorial to have occupied Little and Upper Klamath Lakes, Klamath Marsh, and Sprague River, Oregon.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by John Wesley Powell

This is the case with the Minnesota Lakes, the Sunk Lands of Arkansas, the Klamath Lakes of Oregon, and I think it is also true of southern California.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday

To the northeast lie the Rhett and Klamath Lakes, the Lava Beds, and a grand display of hill and mountain and gray rocky plains.

From Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir

Near the Klamath Lakes, seemingly the most imposing of all the fresh-water lakes that the map revealed, he found a city named Klamath Falls.

From The Voice of the Pack by Edison Marshall

Huge depressions in the land are filled with the Upper and Lower Klamath Lakes, the latter crossing the California boundary-line.

From Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash

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