The Columbia River Empire
Author: Patrick Donan
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 88
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Author: Patrick Donan
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick Donan
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick Donan
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Donan
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Dow Beckham
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick Donan
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Ormond Case
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes history, industries, agriculture, logging and lumber, cultural life, and sports. Includes numerous aerial photographs.
Author: Donald Worster
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780195078060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Author: William Denison Lyman
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 618
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: D.C. Jesse Burkhardt
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2016-03-28
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1439655049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Columbia River Gorge is a land of scenic wonder, revered by tourists for its beauty and by recreationalists for its fishing, windsurfing, hiking, and rafting. The region is also a major transportation corridor, home to two vital east-west railroad routes: Burlington Northern Santa Fe on the Washington side of the Columbia River and Union Pacific on the Oregon side. Every day, dozens of freight trains--as well as Amtrak passenger trains--snake along on opposite banks of the wide river, and rail operations have become an integral part of the heartbeat of the gorge. The colorful images in this work celebrate the art and magic of the trains that move goods and passengers through this striking, rugged landscape.