More ideas on origin of 'siskiyou'

[David Robertson]

About Siskiyou County, California:

"The county was created on March 22, 1852, and named after the mountain
range. The origin of the word siskiyou is not known. One version is that it
is the Chinook Indian word for "bob-tailed horse." Another version, given
in an argument before the state Senate in 1852, is that the French name Six
Callieux, meaning "six-stone," was given to a ford on the Umpqua River by
Michel La Frambeau and a party of Hudson's Bay Company company trappers in
1832, because six large stones or rocks lay in the river where they
crossed. Still others attribute the name to a local tribe of Native
Americans."

FROM http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Siskiyou_County,_California

--Dave R,
who notes that the French might be 'six cailloux' & that the man's name
might be La Framboise

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