Horseshoe Bend
I do not hear the name, Horseshoe Bend, mentioned very much these days. One reason is, I suppose, that there are not as many cattle and horses on the range, and the stock men do not ride the range as much as in the earlier days. The present riders are for the most part, new to some of the places on the range, and have not kept up with the old place names.
Horseshoe Bend is in the area at the head of Brush Creek.
It is a place on the south hillside, where the old wagon road made a horse-shoe shaped bend in going up the hill.
In the early days, before the County Road was built along
the Klamath River, the old wagon road by the way of Horseshoe Bend was the only way out to Henley for the Grieve Brothers, who had a ranch at the mouth of Jenny Creek, and for others living in that area.
In going to Henley the old road left Grieve's lower ranch and went through Grieve's Gap and on to Ward's Flat, Horseshoe Bend, Little Good Water, across Dry Creek, and on to Henley.
The last time I was at Horseshoe Bend I could see the marks of the old wagon road were still visible.
George Wright descriptions