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The Spokane River /
"From Lake Coeur d Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrain rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading and gathering place for Native peoples for thousands of years. With bountiful trout, accessible sw...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; the Spokane River; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Encounters and Excursions; Of Nudity and Violence, Waking and Water; The River's Lasting Legacy; Swimming the Big Eddy; River Lessons; Two Fly-Fishing Love Stories; Latah Creek; When the River Comes toward Me; The Urban Outdoors; Culture, History, Society; What Is the Name of Our River? / stem̓ łuʔ skʷesc łuʔ qe ntx̣ʷetkʷ?; Nature and Industry in Early Spokane: The Lumber versus Trout Debate; The River Gives Us Our Way of Life; How Spokane, Once a Pollution Denier, Became a Model for the Nation
- People's Park, Summer 1974The Spokane River Centennial Trail; Aboveground Tank Farms and Our Aquifer; An Indian Named Lokout; Two Poems; Writing on Water: Sherman Alexie's Poetry on Salmon and Spokane Falls; Beneath the Surface; Spokane River Archaeology; First Post: Spokane House, 1810-1825; Aboriginal and Historic Sport Fisheries; Mining, Climate, and the Giant Salmonfly; More Than a Bathtub Full of Rocks; Pigments, PCBs, and the Spokane River; Spokane River Instream Flows; The Spokane Riverkeepers; Waters of Life; The Once and Future River; Further Reading; List of Contributors; Index