Special – Sources, Contacts and Dedication

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Should those of you who have enjoyed reading this collection of Crater Lake Stories have one that you would like to see added, please contact us and we will try to add your story in the next updated edition.

Larry Smith

315 Laurelwood Drive

Jacksonville, Oregon 97530

twinhiker@gmail.com

541-899-7402

Lloyd Smith

Photo albums: http://picasaweb.google.com/lsmithtwin (Several thousand images of life at Crater Lake over the years.)

146 West Beacon Hill Drive

Longview WA 98632

Cell: 360-749-2037

Hm: 360-636-7343

Lsmithtwin@comcast.net

Dedication and Sources

This collection of historical trivia is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Crater Lake National Parks “Father”, William Gladstone Steel, who, it has been said, spent two hours each day for 50 years working on his Crater Lake Trivia Collection and scrap books.

Special thanks to Crater Lake National Park Historian Stephen R. Mark for his assistance with these revisions.

Originally compiled 1968:

  • Revised, August 1972
  • Revised, September 1972
  • Revised August 1973
  • Revised, August 1974
  • Revised, to July 1975
  • Revised, August 1977
  • Revised, August 1981
  • Revised, July 1982
  • Revised, October 1985
  • Revised, May 1992
  • Revised, February 1997
  • Revised, January 1998
  • Published to the web May, 1999
  • Revised, December 2009
  • Revised, June 2011
  • Revised, October 2012
  • Revised, January 2018
  • Revised December 2019
 Sources:

  • Interviews and oral history
  • past periodicals and local newspapers
  • Park files in Crater Lake Nature Notes
  • Crater Lake Annual Superintendent Reports
  • Park Technical Files and Park Archives
  • “Steel Points” and “W. G. Steel Scrap Books”
  • “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 Sentenel”
  • The writings of William Gladstone Steel
  • The Oregon Historical Society
  • Paul Herron, Crater Lake boat operator
  • Many of the entries up until 1934 were taken from the William Steel Scrapbooks.

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