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Great river of the West : essays on the Columbia River

Title
Great river of the West : essays on the Columbia River / edited by William L. Lang & Robert C. Carriker.
Publication
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Lang, William L.
  • Carriker, Robert C., 1940-
  • Center for Columbia River History.
Description
181 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Subjects
Note
  • "In association with the Center for Columbia River History."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A Resurgent Columbia River: An Introduction / William L. Lang and Robert C. Carriker -- What Ever Happened to the First Peoples of the Columbia? / Eugene S. Hunn -- "Dr. McKay's Chinook Address May 11 1892": A Commemoration in Chinook Jargon of the First Columbia River Centennial / Henry Zenk -- Riverplaces as Sacred Geography: The Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the Mid-Columbia River / William D. Layman -- On the Columbia: The Ruling Presence of This Place / James P. Ronda -- "This perilous situation between hope and despair": Meetings along the Great River of the West / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- "They have no father, and they will not mind me": Families and the River / Lillian Schlissel -- Changing Cultural Inventions of the Columbia / Richard W. Etulain -- What Has Happened to the Columbia? A Great River's Fate in the Twentieth Century / William L. Lang.
ISBN
0295977779 (alk. paper)
LCCN
99041255
OCLC
ocm41967220
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries