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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bruce Barcott |
| ISBN: | 1570610053 : 9781570610059 |
| OCLC Number: | 29846604 |
| Description: | xxii, 329 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Origin of the Columbia River / Red-Arm (Nespelem) -- Love songs ; A boy's song ; A girl's song ; War song / Kwakwaka 'Wakw songs -- Coyote and monster / Wayi'Latpu (Nez Percé) -- Coyote and the cedar tree ; Coyote builds Willamette Falls and the magic fish trap / Louis Labonte (Clackma Chinook) -- Excerpts from: World encompassed by Sir Francis Drake / Francis Fletcher -- Purchase his pilgrims / Michael Lok -- Gulliver's travels / J. Swift -- For honor and country : the diary of Bruno de Hezeta -- Voyage to the Pacific Ocean / James Cook -- Voyage of discovery to the north Pacific Ocean and round the world, 1791-1795 / George Vancouver -- Peter Puget's journal -- Original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition / Meriwether Lewis, William Clark -- Adventures on the Columbia River / Ross Cox -- Astoria / Washington Irving -- Letters of Narcissa Whitman -- Prairie flower / Sidney Walter Moss -- Amelia Knight's journal / Amelia Stewart Knight -- Chief Seattle's 1854 speech -- Chief Jo Hutchins's 1869 speech -- An Indian's view of Indian affairs / Chief Joseph. -- Canoe and the saddle / Theodore Winthrop -- Northwest coast / James G. Swan -- Ascent of Takhoma / Hazard Stevens -- Picturesque California / John Muir -- American notes / Rudyard Kipling -- Atlantis arisen / Frances Fuller Victor -- Coeur d'Alene / Mary Hallock Foote -- Second Missouri compromise / Owen Wister -- Blow-out at Jenkin's grocery / Ella Higginson -- Happy Valley / Anne Shannon Monroe -- I.W.W and the golden rule / Walter V. Woehlke -- Everett Massacre / Walker C. Smith -- Desert of wheat / Zane Grey -- Britt Smith / Anna Louise Strong -- Paul Bunyan / James Stevens -- Year of the big freeze / Hathaway Jones -- Toilers of the hills / Vardis Fisher -- Land of plenty / Robert Cantwell -- Honey in the horn / H.L. Davis -- Holy old Mackinaw / Stewart Holbrook -- Biggest thing on earth / Richard Neuberger -- Big Rock Candy Mountain / Wallace Stegner -- Egg and I / Betty Macdonald. -- Nisei daughter / Monica Sone -- The island / Nard Jones -- No-no boy / John Okada -- Of men and mountains / William O. Douglas -- Last wilderness / Murray Morgan -- Lady and the lumberjack / Olive Barber -- Dharma bums / Jack Kerouac -- Night highway niney-nine / Gary Snyder -- New life / Bernard Malamud -- Travels with Charley / John Steinbeck -- Long old road / Horace Cayton -- Sometimes a great notion / Ken Kesey -- The rose / Theodore Roethke -- Real west marginal way : a poet's autobiography / Richard Hugo -- Elegy for a forest clear-cut by the Weyerhaeuser Company / David Wagoner. -- Another roadside attraction / Tom Robins -- Housekeping / Marilynne Robinson -- Boxes / Raymond Carver -- Amplitude / Tess Gallagher -- River way / David James Duncan -- Winterkill / Craig Lesley -- Geek love / Katherine Dunn -- Writing life / Annie Dillard -- Hunting Mister heartbreak / Jonathan Raban -- Good rain / Timothy Egan -- Living by water / Brenda Peterson -- Stepping westward / Sallie Tisdale -- Business of fancydancing / Sherman Alexie -- Overstory : zero / Robert Heilman -- Settling / Denise Levertov. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Bruce Barcott. |
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