قراءة كتاب The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce

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The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce

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Lyman William Denison

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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The Era of the Pioneers, their Ox-Teams, and their Flatboats 159 CHAPTER VIII Conflict of Nations for Possession of the River 179 CHAPTER IX The Times of Tomahawk and Firebrand 202 CHAPTER X When the “Fire-Canoes” Took the Place of the Log-Canoes 234 CHAPTER XI Era of the Miner, the Cowboy, the Farmer, the Boomer, and the Railroad-Builder 249 CHAPTER XII The Present Age of Expansion and World Commerce 265 PART II.—A JOURNEY DOWN THE RIVER CHAPTER I In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies 273 CHAPTER II The Lakes from the Arrow Lakes to Chelan 290 CHAPTER III In the Land of Wheat-Field, Orchard, and Garden 313 CHAPTER IV Where River and Mountain Meet, and the Traces of the Bridge of the Gods 332 CHAPTER V A Side Trip to some of the Great Snow-Peaks 352 CHAPTER VI The Lower River and the Ocean Tides 374 Index 399

ILLUSTRATIONS

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St. Peter’s Dome, Columbia River, 2300 Feet High	Frontispiece
Copyright, Kiser Photograph Co., 1902.

Mount Adams from the South	74
Photo. by W. D. Lyman.

Capt. Robert Gray	76

The “Columbia Rediviva”	76

Mount Hood from Lost Lake