Columbia Great River Of The West

Author : Professor of History William L Lang,Robert Carriker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0295802766

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Great River of the West by Professor of History William L Lang,Robert Carriker Pdf

In the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and in ways both profound and mundane its history is the history of the region. In Great River of the West historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, Chinook Jargon, and ethnobotany on the Columbia to literary and family history, the creation of an engineered river, and the inherent mythic power of place. Since first contact between Euro-Americans and Native peoples during the late 18th century, the river's history has been characterized by dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes. The remarkable set of essays in Great River of the West investigate these changes by highlighting important episodes in the history of the river. Readers meet mariners who challenge the Columbia River bar, a family torn by insanity, Native people who preserve fishing traditions, and dam-builders who radically change the Columbia.

Author : Earl Roberge
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012263136

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Columbia, Great River of the West by Earl Roberge Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959886610

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Great River of the West: the Columbia River by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0312169876

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River of the West by Robert Clark Pdf

Provides a portrait of the river and the people who lived and died on its banks, including conquered native peoples, European adventurers, missionaries, and emigrants from the drought-ridden Midwest

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperCollins West
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0062585169

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River of the West by Robert Clark Pdf

The Columbia River is the great river of both the American West and of the American imagination. From the glacial floods that began to shape it twelve thousand years ago to its discovery, conquest, and colonization by the English, Spanish, and Americans, the river's story encompasses not only the full range of American history but a geography of myth, hope, and tragedy: the impact of conquest on the native peoples; the idea of a United States reaching to the Pacific; the material and spiritual quests of European adventurers, New England missionaries, and emigrants from the drought-ridden plains of the Midwest; and hydropowered New Deal dreams of peace and prosperity. In River of the West, the Columbia unfolds itself in stories of the people who lived and died on its shores; "discovered" and claimed it for their country; or depended on its dam-generated power or bountiful salmon. Portraits of the shaman Smohalla, leader of the "renegade" Indians who refused to settle on the reservations, and Christian missionary Narcissa Whitman, who was mutilated and murdered by the tribe she had come to redeem (a tribe nearly destroyed by the diseases brought by white settlers), plumb the perspectives of the indigenous river peoples, the dreams of explorers and settlers, and the drama that resulted when the two met. Detailing Franklin Delano Roosevelt's stirring speeches urging the construction of the Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams, Clark evokes the "hydro-socialism" that brought dust-bowl refugees and Woody Guthrie to the lush Northwest and went on to create boomtowns as the dams powered a huge portion of the nation's World War II manufacturing effort. And, through the accounts of five imprisonedIndian fishermen, Clark reveals the tragic story of how the dams made salmon extinct on two-thirds of the Columbia and flooded ancient fishing grounds, stripping Indians of their livelihood and traditional way of life. Dramatic, often profound, and always riveting, River of the West is an unforgettable portrait of the West's greatest waterway. Providing material and spiritual sustenance for at least two dozen native river peoples; the impetus for countless expeditions by explorers - and exploiters - from around the world; central to the national visions of both Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Delano Rooseve

Author : John A. Harrison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467107686

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Columbia River, The by John A. Harrison Pdf

The Columbia River is the dominant river system of the Northwest United States. It is a river of many uses--hydropower, fisheries, and irrigation--and was known by many names--Columbia's River, the Big River, and even River in the Chickadee Territory. It is the fourth-largest river by volume in North America, draining parts of seven states and the province of British Columbia. Because of its unique location close to the ocean, its tall mountain ranges, its steep drop from headwaters to the ocean, its deep and solid canyon, and its huge volume of clear, cold water, the Columbia River evolved as one of the great salmon and hydropower rivers of the world. And therein lies the chief paradox of the Columbia--the conflict of its natural history with its human history. Today, the river is an "organic machine," in the words of historian Richard White, part nature, part machine. This book briefly explores the natural and human histories of the river through photographs from historical archives, government agencies, and personal collections.

Author : William D. Layman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124057212

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River of Memory by William D. Layman Pdf

"River of Memory honors a place and time now gone from view. It restores an unfettered Columbia through more than ninety historical photographs that capture the river as it once appeared. This visual record is complemented with the words of early explorers, surveyors, and naturalists who wrote about specific places along the river and with new works by contemporary American and Canadian writers and poets."--Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959872043

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Great River of the West (DVD). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emily Stehr
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1720015333

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Interesting History of the Columbia River by Emily Stehr Pdf

Interesting History of the Columbia River Definition of Columbia River

Author : William Dietrich
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Simon & Schuster
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002642336

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Northwest Passage by William Dietrich Pdf

. Native Americans clung to the Columbia as the root of their culture, colonizers came in search of productive land and an efficient trade route, and industrialists seeking energy transformed the region's wild beauty.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Idaho Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004423196

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Columbia River by Anonim Pdf

"Published in conjunction with the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Columbia River: Gateway to the West makes a significant contribution to the saga of the Pacific Northwest by viewing its main currents in terms of one of the great waterways of American history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Roop,Connie Roop
Publisher : Calkins Creek Books
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590784303

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River Roads West by Peter Roop,Connie Roop Pdf

Explores the role of rivers as roads in the exploration and westward expansion of America since precolonial times, discussing the histories of the Hudson, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, and Colorado rivers, the Rio Grande, and the Erie Canal.

Author : Blaine Harden
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393316904

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River Lost by Blaine Harden Pdf

Details the destruction of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest by well-intentioned Americans who saw only the benefits of the dam-building, power plant and irrigation projects, not realizing the longterm effects of killing the river.

Author : John Kirk Townsend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081820890

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Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c by John Kirk Townsend Pdf

Author : David L. Nicandri
Publisher : Washington State University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0874224144

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River of Promise by David L. Nicandri Pdf

River of Promise focuses on often-overlooked yet essential aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition: locating the headwaters of the Columbia and a water route to the Pacific Ocean; William Clark's role as the partnership's primary geographic problem-solver; and the contributions of Indian leaders in Columbia River country. The volume also offers comparisons to other explorers and a provocative analysis of Lewis's 1809 suicide. Originally published by The Dakota Institute.