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Road of Difficulties: Building the Lower Columbia River Highway
by Michael Taylor  Publisher Comments From Portland to the Pacific once ran a road that climbed mountains and crossed rivers, an engineering marvel and a scenic wonder that carried travelers across some of the most rugged land in the Northwest. But as the age of the Model T slipped away, so...
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Sacrificing the Salmon
by Michael Blumm Publisher Comments Salmon remain the cultural and economic soul of the Pacific Northwest, a species whose very life cycle largely defines the region. At the center of the salmon region lies the Columbia River, which once supported the world's largest salmon runs and which...
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Reach of Tide Ring of History: A Columbia River Voyage (Northwest Reprints)
by Sam Mckinney Synopsis Aboard a handmade boat, McKinney set out to rediscover the Columbia River of his youth. Combining the river's storied history, rich personal memories, and observations gleaned from the deck of the 16-foot Gander, this record of his voyage offers an...
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The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
by Richard White Publisher Comments The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human...
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Common Fate Endangered Salmon & the Peop
by Joseph Cone Synopsis Science writer Cone traces the dramatic history of the current salmon crisis....
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Hail, Columbia!: Robert Gray, John Kendrick, and the Pacific Fur Trade
by John Scofield Publisher Comments On the first day of October 1787, captains John Kendrick and Robert Gray, along with fifty other men ? sailors and tradesmen alike ? set sail from Boston, soon to be the first Yankees to lay eyes on the lush and resource-rich Northwest Coast of North...
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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
by Blaine Harden Synopsis This is a book about how well-intentioned Americans dammed up the Columbia, "Great River of the West", fulfilling dreams of cheap electricity and gardens flourishing in the desert. It is also a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of...
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The Columbia: Sustaining a Modern Resource
by Tim Palmer Publisher Comments In The Columbia, author and photographer Tim Palmer celebrates the beauty and natural resources of this grand region and shows why this watershed is so important to everyone who lives in or cares about the Northwest and the Northern Rockies. Focusing on...
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Columbia River: Gateway to the West (Images of America)
by Carlos A Schwantes Book News Annotation Takes readers on a voyage of discovery along the Columbia River and summarizes the history of the Columbia from its "discovery" in 1792 to the modern era of dams. A fast paced narrative and a wealth of color photos, many taken from boats, capture the...
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Legacy and Testament: The Story of Columbia River Gillnetters
by Irene Martin Synopsis Using oral histories, unpublished materials, and other little-known sources, Irene Martin provides a history of the Columbia's salmon gillnet fishery and of the gillnetters themselves. Martin addresses immigration and ethnicity, folklore and cultural...
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Coming to Stay: A Columbia River Journey
by Mary Dodds Schlick Publisher Comments Coming to Stay is the memoir of Mary Dodds Schlick, who in 1950 moved from the Midwest to the Colville Indian Reservation in north central Washington with her husband Bud, a forester for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. For over fifty years, she has...
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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments "A River Lost is superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill". -- Washington Post Book World "Harden's bold and well-supported commentary is a welcome addition to the literature of the majestic river". -- Kirkus Reviews After a...
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Adventures on the Columbia River
by Ross Cox Synopsis Ross Cox was a fur trader for the Pacific Fur Company. In 1811 he sailed from New York, around the Horn, to Hawaii, and on to the Columbia River, exploring inland to Montana along the Clark Fork and Flathead Rivers. For six years he lived on the frontier...
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Native River: The Columbia Remembered
by William D. Layman Publisher Comments In images and narratives, Native River recreates a vision of the mighty Columbia River as it appeared when it ran wild and free. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, maps, and photographs, many never before published, this finely crafted book focuses on...
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Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream
by Paul C Pitzer Synopsis In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand Coulee Dam and the story of its construction is a vital, animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working to build something spectacular. These visionaries accomplished their...
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The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History
by Joseph Cone Synopsis In this acclaimed volume, knowledgeable observers of salmon history select and comment on the documents that they feel most clearly reveal the causes of today's crisis. The eighty documents span a period of 140 years and address such issues as habitat...
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River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
by William D Layman Book News Annotation This text accompanies an exhibition by the same name, slated to appear at six museums in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia between April 2006 and September 2008. Following an introductory overview of the river and its history, the material is...
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Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country
by Jack Nisbet Publisher Comments How does one learn about a place's history? Historian and naturalist Jack Nisbet looks to the relics of a region to connect the present to the distant past. In the vast western territory defined by the Columbia River, Nisbet tracks the stories and...
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The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
by Jack Nisbet Book News Annotation Nisbet, a specialist on Thompson, has written a biography of the explorer and mapmaker that focuses on the five years he spent recording the lands and rivers of the Columbia River Plateau in the late 18th century. Drawing on Thompson's detailed...
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Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River (Culture and Environment in the Pacific West)
by Roberta Ulrich Publisher Comments Empty Nets is a disturbing history of broken promises and justice delayed. It chronicles a native people's fight to maintain their livelihood and culture in the face of an indifferent federal bureaucracy and hostile state governments. In 1939, the U.S...
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