The largest boat ever to sail Upper Klamath Lake north of Klamath Falls, Ore., was the $10,000 Winema, a 125-foot long stern-wheeled steamboat with a 22-foot beam. The steamer, known as the Queen of the Lake, offered moonlight excursions with a band for dancing, $1 Sunday cruises and annual school picnics. It carried both passengers and freight early in the 1900s when boats offered a chief mode of transportation in the Klamath country. John T. Totten and Harry Hansberry built [...]
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