Author: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Title: Crater Lake National Park Oregon
Description: Washington, D. C.: United States Department of the Interior, 1958. Revised Edition. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized booklet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the booklet covers have some beginning edge wear and rubbing, and there is a small chip to the bottom foredge of the booklet cover, and the first 8 pages. The text pages are clean and bright. "Crater Lake is in Klamath County, around 60 miles (97 km) northwest of the county seat of Klamath Falls, and about 80 miles (130 km) northeast of the city of Medford. A Native American connection with this area has been traced back to before the eruption of Mount Mazama. Archaeologists have found sandals and other artifacts buried under layers of ash, dust, and pumice that antedate the eruption roughly 7,700 years ago. Crater Lake remains significant to the Klamath tribes today. The Klamath name for the lake is Giiwas. In June 1853, Isaac Skeeter, John Wesley Hillman, and another man were the first non-Native Americans to report sighting the lake, while on a mining trip; Skeeter named it "Deep Blue Lake," inspired by Hillman's description of the site. The lake was renamed at least three times, as Blue Lake, Lake Majesty, and finally Crater Lake. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

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