Author: Columbia River Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645508427
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1949, thirteen existing members of the Daughters of the American Revolution came together to start a new DAR chapter. They came from different areas of the country and from different backgrounds. They also had various skills and interests. Their common bond was a desire to form a DAR chapter in the government-town of Richland, Washington. "The Columbia River Wellspring" is a collection of short biographies of these women. In addition to their biographies, this book includes snippets from some of the original Columbia River Chapter's early scrapbooks, vignettes of certain DAR Committees that were of importance to these women, and timeline highlights. These thirteen women, the Organizing Members of the Columbia River Chapter, truly are the wellspring of the Chapter. It is an honor to share their stories. Information in this book was compiled by the Founding Daughters Project Committee of the Columbia River Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in celebration of the Chapter's 70th year.
The Columbia River
Author: JoAnn Roe
Publisher: Fulcrum Group
ISBN: 9781555911027
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A travel guide to the sights, activities, lodgings, meals and history of Columbia River.
Publisher: Fulcrum Group
ISBN: 9781555911027
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A travel guide to the sights, activities, lodgings, meals and history of Columbia River.
A River Lost
Author: Blaine Harden
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393039368
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington, could not have existed without massive irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, once considered patriots, stand accused of killing the river. As Blaine Harden traveled the Columbia-by barge, car, and sometimes on foot-his past seemed both foreign and familiar. A personal narrative of rediscovery joined a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a once-wild river now tamed to puddled remains. Part history, part memoir, part lament, "this is a brave and precise book," according to the New York Times Book Review. "It must not have been easy for Blaine Harden to find himself turning his journalistic weapons against his own heritage, but he has done the conscience of his homeland a great service."
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393039368
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington, could not have existed without massive irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, once considered patriots, stand accused of killing the river. As Blaine Harden traveled the Columbia-by barge, car, and sometimes on foot-his past seemed both foreign and familiar. A personal narrative of rediscovery joined a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a once-wild river now tamed to puddled remains. Part history, part memoir, part lament, "this is a brave and precise book," according to the New York Times Book Review. "It must not have been easy for Blaine Harden to find himself turning his journalistic weapons against his own heritage, but he has done the conscience of his homeland a great service."
WELLSPRING
Author: EDWARD H. HAWKINS
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Columbia River Wellspring
Author: Columbia River Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645508427
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1949, thirteen existing members of the Daughters of the American Revolution came together to start a new DAR chapter. They came from different areas of the country and from different backgrounds. They also had various skills and interests. Their common bond was a desire to form a DAR chapter in the government-town of Richland, Washington. "The Columbia River Wellspring" is a collection of short biographies of these women. In addition to their biographies, this book includes snippets from some of the original Columbia River Chapter's early scrapbooks, vignettes of certain DAR Committees that were of importance to these women, and timeline highlights. These thirteen women, the Organizing Members of the Columbia River Chapter, truly are the wellspring of the Chapter. It is an honor to share their stories. Information in this book was compiled by the Founding Daughters Project Committee of the Columbia River Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in celebration of the Chapter's 70th year.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645508427
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1949, thirteen existing members of the Daughters of the American Revolution came together to start a new DAR chapter. They came from different areas of the country and from different backgrounds. They also had various skills and interests. Their common bond was a desire to form a DAR chapter in the government-town of Richland, Washington. "The Columbia River Wellspring" is a collection of short biographies of these women. In addition to their biographies, this book includes snippets from some of the original Columbia River Chapter's early scrapbooks, vignettes of certain DAR Committees that were of importance to these women, and timeline highlights. These thirteen women, the Organizing Members of the Columbia River Chapter, truly are the wellspring of the Chapter. It is an honor to share their stories. Information in this book was compiled by the Founding Daughters Project Committee of the Columbia River Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in celebration of the Chapter's 70th year.
The Columbia River
Author: William Denison Lyman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Columbia River
Author: William Denison Lyman
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This work presents a complete history of the Columbia River system from pre-discovery to the early 20th century. It is an exciting history with beautiful descriptions of the landscapes and exploration. The author aimed to bring to his reader a lively sense of the romance, heroism, and adventure that belong to this incredible stream and the regions of the North-west.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This work presents a complete history of the Columbia River system from pre-discovery to the early 20th century. It is an exciting history with beautiful descriptions of the landscapes and exploration. The author aimed to bring to his reader a lively sense of the romance, heroism, and adventure that belong to this incredible stream and the regions of the North-west.
The Columbia River Basin
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Down the Columbia
Author: Lewis R. Freeman
Publisher: Dixon Price Pub
ISBN: 9781929516186
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Originally published in 1921, Freeman's account of his journey down the Columbia river depicts in detail the natural beauty of the area and provides a glimpse at life along the river during the 1920's. The narrative traces his voyage from the headwaters of the Columbia to the run past Palisade Rock
Publisher: Dixon Price Pub
ISBN: 9781929516186
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Originally published in 1921, Freeman's account of his journey down the Columbia river depicts in detail the natural beauty of the area and provides a glimpse at life along the river during the 1920's. The narrative traces his voyage from the headwaters of the Columbia to the run past Palisade Rock
The Columbia Unveiled
Author: Madison Johnson Lorraine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Great River of the West
Author: Professor of History William L Lang
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295802763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295802763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.