Elie's Flat
It has been a long time since I heard any one mention Elie's Flat. Maybe it is private land now, and fenced in since I have not been there for over twenty-five years. I used to do a lot of riding for horses in that area many years ago. The horses are all gone now, and my riding days are over.
Elie's Flat is a kind of little flat and open place along Dry Creek about a mile up from the Klamath River and near the old wagon road that leads up to Little Good Water and old Pedro Smith homestead.
It was called Elie's Flat because Elie Clawson camped there a long time ago, probably in the 1870s. The name Elie's Flat was used by the stockmen in the early days and was a well-known name.
Elie Clawson camped and lived in a number of places in these mountains in the early days. What is now known as Hearn's Flat was once called Elie's Camp. Elie's Glade was also named after Clawson. In the early 1870s there was a place on Camp Creek known as the Bull Hide Camp, where Clawson had a bull hide stretched up to make a lean-to for his camp.
George Wright descriptions