Crater Lake was rediscovered on August 1,1865 by two hunters working with road crews from Fort Klamath. Sergeant Orsen Sterns and several others came to see the now-legendary lake. Sterns was the first non-Native American to climb down into the caldera and reach the shore of Crater Lake. Captain F. B. Sprague soon joined him and suggested the name "Lake Majesty."

• C. Captain Franklin B. Sprague: Discovery of Crater Lake: Historic Resource Study, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, 1984

• Smith Brothers Chronological History of Crater Lake National Park: 1865