Carroll B. Howe Oral History Interview
Interviewer and Date: Stephen R. Mark, Crater Lake National Park Historian
Interview Location and Date: Carrol Howe’s residence south of Klamath Falls, Oregon, January 23, 1992
Transcription: Transcribed by Chris Prout, July 1997
Biographical Summary (from the interview introduction)
Carrol Howe has been a prominent resident of Klamath County since the mid 1930s, when he began a teaching career. His role in the public sector eventually expanded to being a school principal, then Klamath County Superintendent of Schools, and finally state representative. A farmer in retirement, he maintains a keen interest in the county’s archeology and history. Mr. Howe can be credited with igniting widespread interest in the past and present of Klamath County, largely through writing and publishing a highly successful series of books. Died 1998. Crater Lake National History Association board member 1982-87.
Materials Associated with this interview on file at the Dick Brown library at Crater Lake National Park’s Steel Visitor Center
Taped interview; loaned photos for copying; file includes a limited amount of correspondence and a print from slide taken during the interview. Most of the interview is captured on the following transcription, except for a preliminary portion where he showed me his collection of photographs and artifacts. A number of photographs were subsequently copied for the park’s museum collection with Mr. Howe’s permission. The park library also benefited from our meeting, as we later obtained copies of all his published work.
