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Thoughts on Western toponyms

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Leland Buck
Jul 18, 2025
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Greetings friends

In June 2024, I found myself in Klamath Falls, Oregon for a couple of days. While there, I spent an afternoon driving the narrow ribbon of Highway 140 that winds along the western shore of Upper Klamath Lake. I was searching for a specific marker, erected by the Eulalona Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1930, that …

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