A Columbia River reader
By: edited by William L. Lang.
Contributors: Lang, William L.; Washington State Historical Society.; Center for Columbia River History.
Publisher: The Center for Columbia River History
Published: 1992
Place of publication: [Vancouver, Wash.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Columbia River -- History.; Oregon -- History.; Washington (State) -- History.
Notes: "A publication of the Washington State Historical Society"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 83).
Table of contents: title: The natural river. Tales of coyote : eastern Washington traditions / as told by Martin Louie, Sr.; title: Native place names on the Columbia Plateau / by Eugene S. Hunn; title: Riverworlds : the sweep of cultures and the Columbia / by James P. Ronda; title: Encounter on the Columbia : an inner history of trade and its consequences / by William L. Lang; title: The women of Fort Vancouver / by John A. Hussey; title: The manipulated river. The Columbia before it was tamed : how a raging river was opened to steamboat traffic / by William D. Layman.; title: Engineering the Cascades Canal and Locks, 1876-1896 / by William F. Willingham; title: Wheat sacks out to sea : the early export trade from the Walla Walla Country / by Donald W. Meinig; title: The new settlers on the Yakima project, 1880-1910 / by C. Brewster Coulter; title: The mystique of Grand Coulee Dam and the reality of the Columbia Basin Project / by Paul C. Pitzer; title: The Coon-Neuberger Debates of 1955 : "Ten dam nights in Oregon" / by Bert E. Swanson and Deborah Rosenfeld.; title: (Cont.) Longview : the career of a Washington model city / by Carl Abbott; title: Historical access to the Hanford record : problems in investigating the past / by Michele A. Stenehjem.