The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . lA. 3 54 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. Tumwater, the falls of the Columbia at Celilo; total drop, twenty feet at low water. In Summer,when the snow on the Bitter Root and Rocky Mountains is melting, the river rises often more thansixty feet. Steamboats have then passed safely down. Wishram, an ancient Indian fishing village,was on the north bank below the falls, and Indians may often still be seen spearing salmon from theshores and islands here. The tremendous problems of its development, due to its topography, its r
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . lA. 3 54 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. Tumwater, the falls of the Columbia at Celilo; total drop, twenty feet at low water. In Summer,when the snow on the Bitter Root and Rocky Mountains is melting, the river rises often more thansixty feet. Steamboats have then passed safely down. Wishram, an ancient Indian fishing village,was on the north bank below the falls, and Indians may often still be seen spearing salmon from theshores and islands here. The tremendous problems of its development, due to its topography, its re-moteness, its magnificent distances, and its lack of transportation, demandedmen of sturdiest fiber and intrepid leading. No pages of our history tella finer story of action and initiative than those which enroll the names ofMcLoughlin, the great Companys autocratic governor, not unfitly calledthe father of Oregon, and Whitman, the martyr, with the frontier leaderswho fashioned the first ship of state launched in the Northwest, and theircontemporaries, the men who built the first towns, roads, schools, mills,
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