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.
