The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . ver, 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 a
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . ver, 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 fell a prizeto the nation that neglected it. Spain and Russia wished to own it. Great The Witchs Head, an Indian picture rock atthe old native village of Wishram, northside of the Columbia near Celilo Falls. TheIndians believe that if an unfaithful wifepasses this rock, its eyes follow her withmute Village of Indian Tepees, Umatilla Reservation, near Pendleton, Oregon. Many of these Indians arerich landowners, but they prefer tents to houses. THE RIVER 51
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