Taming the Mighty Columbia
The Columbia River, was a lifeway for Indian Tribes, a pathway for white explorers, a highway for steamboats and barges, and today a source of irrigation, hydr…
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Carving the Columbialocation_fillBetween 18,000 and 13,000 years ago, glaciers advanced and retreated over northern Washington. This ice formed…
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Chief Joseph Damlocation_fillBridgeport, WA was fading in into the surrounding fields and orchards, but was revived with the construction o… -
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Salmon Past and Presentlocation_fillThe Chief Joseph Fish Hatchery, being constructed by the Colville Tribe on this site, is part of an attempt to… -
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Grand Coulee Damlocation_fillLarger than all of the Pyramids of Giza put together, this mammoth concrete structure began as a dream in a sm… -
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Mason Citylocation_fillIn the depths of America's Great Depression, news of a huge construction project in Washington State brought a… -
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B Streetlocation_fillB Street was the busiest street in the Columbia River Basin during the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in… -
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Elephant in the Desertlocation_fillEven before the dam was complete, Grand Coulee attracted visitors eager to view this unique geological landsca… -
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A Town No Morelocation_fillBeneath the blue-green waters of Lake Roosevelt lie eleven drowning victims: the towns that were flooded by th… -
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The Gifford Odd Fellowslocation_fillAmicitia, amor et veritas. Friendship, love, and truth were the three founding principles of the Independent O… -
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How the West was Wateredlocation_fillThe landscape that lies under Lake Roosevelt today is part of a series of “benchlands,” flat regions separated… -
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The Fishery at Kettle Fallslocation_fillBeneath the placid waters of Lake Roosevelt at this location lies what was once one of the most important nati… -
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The Ceremony of Tearslocation_fillFor centuries, Kettle Falls was a fishing spot and a gathering place. When Grand Coulee Dam began constructio… -
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The Sharpening Stonelocation_fillSet on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River approximately 350 feet north of St. Paul's Mission near Kettle F… -
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Resurrection of St. Paul's Missionlocation_fillThe tribes that lived near the Columbia River were enthusiastic about the "blackrobes" and their teachings. So… -
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Buried and Forgottenlocation_fillMissionaries conducted their final service at St. Paul’s Mission on August 14, 1875. Without the stewardship o… -
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Fort Colvilelocation_fillOn March 26, 1821 two giant companies merged. The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), founded on May 2, 1670, bought o… -
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The Steamboat <em>Forty-Nine</em>location_fillThe population of the Upper Columbia Country exploded when gold was discovered along the banks of the Columbia… -
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The Boundary Commissionlocation_fillThe United States-Canadian border in the Pacific Northwest is clearly marked and border agents at defined cros… -
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Make Way for Rising Waterslocation_fillIn 1940, Congress mandated that the Bureau of Reclamation would be granted all the land that would be flooded … -
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Good Fishing on the Main Street of Marcuslocation_fillAs the Grand Coulee Dam grew higher in the 1930s, the water of the Columbia River rose behind it. 150 miles of… -
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The City of Kettle Fallslocation_fillWhat happened to the houses, stores, and buildings that were threatened by the rising water of Lake Roosevelt … -
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The Late, Great Meyers Fallslocation_fillIn 1862 Louther Meyers arrived in Colville Valley from his home in New York state, determined to make his fort…
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