Search for crossword answers and clues
A river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean
Answer for the clue "A river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean ", 7 letters:
klamath
Alternative clues for the word klamath
Word definitions for klamath in dictionaries
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 651 Housing Units (2000): 365 Land area (2000): 12.535989 sq. miles (32.468061 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 12.535989 sq. miles (32.468061 sq. km) FIPS code: 38702 Located within: ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Klamath is the name of a Native American tribe and their language . Klamath may also refer to the following places in the United States : Fort Klamath , a former military outpost in Oregon Fort Klamath, Oregon , a present-day unincorporated community near ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Klamaths \Kla"maths\, prop. n. pl.; sing. Klamath (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets ...
Usage examples of klamath.
It was a black train carried Billy Long Gone away from Klamath Falls and into the east.
The train was stopped on a siding outside the Klamath Falls switchyard, a stretch of track that ran straight as an avenue between ranks of tall spruce, and as Billy walked alongside it, peering into the open boxcars, he noticed a number of peculiarities.
Farther off was an area of dark mist that spread along the horizon, broken its entire length by a range of forbidding-looking mountains about ten sizes bigger than the ones we had passed through after leaving Klamath Falls, their peaks set so close together, they might have been a graph forecasting the progress of a spectacularly erratic business.
Often she talked about how she had gotten married to Chester the Molester in the yard at Spokane, how tramps had come from everywhere, and a couple of trampettes had worked a job in Klamath Falls for nearly a month so they could buy her a ring.
Pie after leaving Klamath Falls, with little islands of solid ground here and there that supported trees whose twisted trunks reminded me of Monterey pines, but whose leaves were ribbony and fluttered in the wind like streamers.
Before I opened my eyes and learned that Annie was there and all the rest, I realized I was as different from the Billy Long Gone who had jumped into the river as he had been from the man who had climbed drunkenly aboard a black train in Klamath Falls.
A master mercenary who had survived Klamath might be just the person to balance a scout commander, he thought.
Then it came again - the kind of sound she had hoped and prayed and cursed for when Klamath had come apart around them, freezing them, frying them, killing them.
I had been on Klamath, seen a world shake apart and my unit - my friends, my lovers, my family - die, I might wish to forget, also.
The following week, at the armory in Klamath Falls, Tandy Moore stopped Joe Burns in one round, and thereafter in successive weeks at Burns and Eugene he stopped Glen Hayes in two, Rolph Williams in one, Pedro Sarmineto in five, and Chuck Goslin in three.
An occasional boxing promoter who knew Louis in Klamath Falls in the late 1920s.
Lettsingef An older man Louis knew in Klamath Falls, Oregon, in the late 1920s.
Angulo mastered the fundamentals of seventeen distinct Native American languages -- in California alone, Karok, Klamath, Modoc, Miwok, Paiute, Pomo, Shastan and Achumawi.
Heat that enveloped all of California from the and Mexican border in the south to majestic Klamath Forest, elbowing northward into Oregon.
Klamath language, so that the recordings will be available to the Klamath tribe.