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live, while another man who had been there for 

 years said they advertised the town. This is an 

 interesting illustration of how people can adapt 

 themselves to any environment, as here live four 

 or five thousand souls who quite ignore it, as 

 they probably should. When the snakes were 

 driven out of Ireland they doubtless came to a 

 stand at Klamath Falls. As these lines are 

 written a railroad has arrived at this upland 

 town and doubtless " the street of snakes " will 

 soon disappear, become a legend, then take its 

 place with " fish stories " once told about this 

 attractive region. 



I think I must have heard of Klamath first 

 from Fremont's Memoirs. This remarkable man, 

 who seems to have been forgotten, and certainly 

 not appreciated, thought nothing of riding across 

 country from California after having made the 

 trip from St. Louis or the Middle West; yet 

 to-day, any one who would ride across the moun- 

 tains from San Francisco to Klamath Falls 

 would acquire merit. Fremont did it fighting 

 the Indians as he went, and it was here, if I 

 am not mistaken, he saved Kit Carson's life by 

 ramming an Indian with his horse. Mr. Gifford 

 Pinchot made the trip into Klamath years ago, 

 and one summer when we were in camp at San 

 Clemente he regaled us with tales of the bigness 

 of Klamath trout and of his record fish, a twenty- 

 pounder, taken, I think, with a fly and a five- 



