Klamath
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Bonham’s colleagues have publicly praised him for overseeing the removal of four dams along the Klamath River, leading to a salmon renaissance in their historic habitat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
Klamath is also expected to receive 2 inches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
In December 1964, when Stremberg was in high school, a major flood wiped out a Highway 101 bridge over the Klamath River, as well as much of the eponymous town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Highway 101 is the only viable route between Crescent City and Klamath, population 800 or so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
These refuges are part of a chain including also the refuge on Upper Klamath Lake just over the border in Oregon.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
The Klamaths did not like the introduction of the Modocs on their reservation, and it eventually led to the Modoc war.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
The Modocs were originally part of the Klamaths, but recently hostile to them.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
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 Schofield, John M.
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 Sexton, Ella M.
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 Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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