The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 50 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. epic. Its story is outside the purposeof this volume. But it is worth while,in closing our brief glance at the field,to note that this story has been trueto its setting. Rich in heroism andromance, it is perhaps the most typical,as it is the latest, chapter in thedevelopment of the West. For thisland of the river, its quarter-millionsquare miles stretching far northwardto Canada, and far eastward to theYellowstone, built about with colossalmountains, laced with splendid water-ways, je
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 50 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. epic. Its story is outside the purposeof this volume. But it is worth while,in closing our brief glance at the field,to note that this story has been trueto its setting. Rich in heroism andromance, it is perhaps the most typical,as it is the latest, chapter in thedevelopment of the West. For thisland of the river, its quarter-millionsquare miles stretching far northwardto Canada, and far eastward to theYellowstone, built about with colossalmountains, laced with splendid water-ways, jeweled with beautiful lakes,where upheaval and eruption, earth-quake and glacier have prepared a homefor a great and happy population, hasalready been the scene of a drama ofcurious political contradictions andremarkable popular achievement. The Columbia River basin, aloneof all the territories which the UnitedStates has added to its original area,was neither bought with money norannexed by war. Its acquisition wasa triumph of the American nations looked with longing to this Northwest, but it
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