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CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK
INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT CRATER LAKE
RECORDS AND AREA “FIRSTS”
Collected and Edited and some of it witnessed by twin brothers:
LARRY B. SMITH and LLOYD C. SMITH
THIS COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL TRIVIA IS
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK’S “FATHER”,
WILLIAM GLADSTONE STEEL, OF WHOM IT HAS
BEEN SAID, SPENT TWO HOURS EACH
DAY FOR 50 YEARS WORKING ON HIS
CRATER LAKE TRIVIA COLLECTION.
Special thanks to Stephen R. Mark,
Crater Lake Historian, and Ben Truwe of Medford, Oregon for their assistance with these revisions.
Original compiled……….1968
Revised…………………….August 1972
Revised…………………….September 1972
Revised…………………….August 1973
Revised…………………….August 1974
Revised…………………….July 1975
Revised…………………….August 1977
Revised…………………….August 1981
Revised…………………….July 1982
Revised…………………….October 1985
Revised…………………….May 1992
Revised…………………….February 1997
Revised……………….January 2010
Revised……………….January 2011
Revised……………….July 2011
Revised……………….October 2012
Revised……………….February 2015
Revised……………….January 2019
Revised…………,,,…..December 2019
SOURCES:
Interviews and oral history
Past periodicals and local newspapers
Park Files and Crater Lake Nature Notes
Crater Lake Annual Superintendent Reports
Park Technical Files and Park Archives
“Steel Points” and W.G. Steel Scrapbooks
“The Enchanted Lake”
“Our National Park Policy”
“The Crater Lake Story”
“Mazama Yearly Reports”, beginning, 1897
“CRATER LAKE, Story Behind The Scenery”
SOHS, “The Table Rock Sentinel”
The writings of William Gladstone Steel
The Oregon Historical Society
Paul Herron, Crater Lake boat operator
Conversations with former and present Park employees and Park visitors
And from “wherever”
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