The Columbia

America's Great highway through the Cascade Mountains to the sea. With twenty-six plates and other illustrations. CONTENTS: Formation of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada Ranges -- Formation of the Columbia River and the Gorge -- Early Life in the Columbia River Basin -- The Fur Traders -- Early Missionaries -- Life at Fort Vancouver -- The Struggle to Posses the Land -- Transportation on the Columbia -- The Columbia River Highway -- The Bees-Wax Ship -- Whitman Massacre -- Flatheads -- Indians and River Called Multnomah -- Indian Beads and Mediums of Exchange -- Coinage of Gold into Beaver Money -- Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce.