Skookum Gulch
Skookum Gulch empties into Jenny Creek a few hundred yards over the state line into California. In going up Skookum Gulch from its mouth for about one half mile or more is a rough canyon called Skookum Gulch, or Skookum Canyon is the correct name, and about half way in Skookum Canyon theres another gulch branches off on the right side and its called Bear Gulch and about half mile of it is a rough canyon and its called Bear Canyon.
Getting back to Skookum Canyon which ends on The Cold Spring Ranch here, there for about one mile of Skookum Gulch is here on the ranch. On up nearly a mile Skookum Gulch forks at the edge of The Skookum Pasture. The straight away fork is much the shortest and heads on the south side of Skookum Ridge and the east side of The Bench. The west fork is still called Skookum Gulch. It curves off to a north west direction and by Cook's Camp and at this place Long Gulch branches off on the left. Skookum Gulch goes through some of the south west part of the Skookum Pasture and on up around Cabin Sixty-nine and heads at a divide which on the west side slopes toward the right fork of Camp Creek.
Skookum is an Indian name meaning plenty or good and was named by the Indians in early days because there were plenty of apaws, wild onions and other eatable plants grew in that area.
When I was a boy there were several Indians lived along the Klamath River near where Copco is now located. Those Indians would go to the Skookum Gulch area every spring to dig apaws. The women would dig apaws and other eatable herbs and plants while the men would hunt for game and soon have jerked venison and venison cooked on a camp fire and it was good too, so was the apaws, I know for I ate with them more than once when I was a little boy.
What a fine country this must of been before the white man came, and killed and destroyed all the good things the Indians had, the fish and game the bunch grass and all the rest is gone the Indians too. When I was a little boy I heard "Indian Tom" say white man crazy, kill-um deer, no eat- um.
George Wright descriptions