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1. Quoted in Place and Place, Stor of Crater Lake, pp. 36-37. Also see “Crater Lake,”Steel Points, I August, 1925), n.p.
2. Place and Place, Story of Crater Lake, pp. 39-40.
3. Petition to the President of the United States, December 21, 1885, William G. Steel Correspondence Collection, Letter File 1, Item 213, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
4. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Legislative History for Crater Lake National Park, 3 vols. April, 1986, I, 1.
5. Lamar to the President, January 30, 1886, and Assistant Secretary, Department of the Interior to Commissioner, General Land Office, February 1, 1886, Rogue River Files, National Forests, Division R, Record Group 49, Records of the General Land Office, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C. Also see ‘Crater Lake,” Steel Points, I (January, 1907) 37.
6. S. 1111, Legislative History for Crater Lake, I, 33-34.
7. H.R. 5075, Legislative History for Crater Lake, I, 35-37.
8. C.E. Dutton, “Crater Lake, Oregon, A Proposed National Reservation,” Science, VII (February 26, 1886), 179-82.
9. Legislative History for Crater Lake, I, 1-2.
10. Place and Place, Story of Crater Lake, pp. 41-46; Gorman, “Discovery and Early History of Crater Lake,” 158-59; “Crater Lake,” Steel Points, I (August, 1925), n.p.; “Crater Lake,” Steel Points, I (January, 1907), 39-42; and Mary Osborn Douthit, ed., The Souvenir of Western Women (Portland, 1905), pp. 13-15.
11. Powell to Plumb, February 9, 1888, Steel Scrapbooks, No. 21, Vol. I, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
12. S. 16, Legislative History for Crater Lake, I, 2, 38-39.
12. Dolph to Steel, February 14, 1888, Steel Scrapbooks, No. 21, Vol. I, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
13. S. 1817, Legislative History for Crater Lake, I, 40-41.
14. Legislative History for Crater Lake, I, 3. On September 1, 1888, Steel, along with E.D. Dewert of Portland and S.S. Nicolini of Austria, placed 37 rainbow trout minnows in the lake. The men had carried the minnows from Gordon’s Ranch on the Rogue River some 50 miles distant. These were the first fish to be planted in the lake. “Crater Lake,”Steel Points, I (January, 1907), 42.
15. W.G. Steel, The Mountains of Oregon (Portland, 1890), pp. 12, 17, 29.
16. Legislative History for Crater Lake, I, 4-5, 42-52.
