Crater Lake National Park: Administrative History by Harlan D. Unrau and Stephen Mark, 1987
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PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Material for this chapter was extracted from two principal sources: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic Resource Study, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, by Linda W. Greene, June 1984, and U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, “Statement for Management, Crater Lake National Park,” March 11, 1983, Files, Technical Information Center, Denver Service Center, National Park Service.
CHAPTER 1
1. Portland Oregonian, June 7, 1903, printed in Steel Points, I (January, 1907), pp. 77-79. Just before his death in 1915 Hillman reminisced about his life experiences and discovery of Crater Lake with Bentley B. Mackay. The reminiscences were published in the North Baton Rouge Journal. See Bentley B. Mackay, “Reminiscences of John Wesley Hillman, Famous Forty-Niner and Discoverer of Crater Lake. . . . ,” April 19, 1915, William G. Steel Scrapbooks, Crater Lake, No. 41, Vol. 9, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
2. Historic Resource Study, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, pp. 17-18.
3. Oregon Sentinel, November 8, 1862, printed in Steel Points, (January, 1907), pp. 85-86.
4. F.B. Sprague, “Lake Majesty,” August 25, 1865, Central Classified Files, 1907-49, Record Group 79, Records of the National Park Service, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C. Other accounts of the Sprague visit to the lake that contain varying details may be found in Ashland Tidings, February 27, 1888; Gold Hill News, July 16, 1931; and Portland Oregonian, September 1, 1913, in William G. Steel Scrapbooks, Crater Lake, No. 21, Vol. 1, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
5. Oregon Sentinel, August 12, 1865.
6. M.W. Gorman, “The Discovery and Early History of Crater Lake,” Mazama, I (1897), 156.
7. Oregon Sentinel, August 21, 1869.
8. Howard Place and Marian Place, The Story of Crater Lake National Park (Caldwell, Idaho, 1974), p. 24.
9. Oregon Sentinel, September 12, 1868.
10. Gorman, “Discovery and Early History of Crater Lake,” 157-58, and Place and Place,Story of Crater Lake, pp. 24-26.
11 . Stanton C . Lapham, The Enchanted Lake: Mount Mazama and Crater Lake in Story History and Legend (Portland, 1931), pp. 70-71, and Gorman, “Discovery and Early History of Crater Lake,” 158.
12. U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological History of Crater Lake: Crater Lake National Park (Washington, 1912), p. 3.
13. Place and Place, Story of Crater Lake, pp. 27-28.
14. Gorman, “Discovery and Early History of Crater Lake,” 157.
15. Historic Resource Study, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, p. 75.
16. Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun, “First Crater Lake Photograph,” National Parks Magazine, XXXVI (September, 1962), 14-16, and Place and Place, Story of Crater Lake, pp. 28-34. One of the party members, W. Kuykendall, wrote his reminiscences of the expedition. His reminiscences and other papers relating to the early exploration and visitation to the lake may be found in the W. Kuykendall Collection (Mss. 2130) at the Oregon Historical Society, Portland.
17. Klamath Falls Evening Herald, October 20, 1908; Ruth Kirk, Exploring Crater Lake Country (Seattle, 1975), p. 39; and Don C. Fisher, “The Story Behind the Scenery . . . Crater Lake,” Oregon Motorist (September, 1931).
18. Ashland Times, September 14, 1877.
19. J.S. Diller, “Crater Lake, Oregon,” Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, July 1897 (Washington, 1898), p. 370.
