The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce

by William Denison Lyman

The
Columbia River

Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery
Its Commerce

By
William Denison Lyman
Professor of History in Whitman College,
Walla Walla, Washington

With 80 Illustrations and a Map

G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1909

Copyright, 1909
BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

TO MY PARENTS
Horace Lyman and Mary Denison Lyman
PIONEERS OF 1849, WHO BORE THEIR PART IN LAYING THE
FOUNDATIONS OF CIVILIZATION UPON THE BANKS OF
THE COLUMBIA, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR

I see the living tide roll on, It crowns with rosy towers The icy capes of Labrador, The Spaniard’s land of flowers; It streams beyond the splintered ridge That parts the northern showers. From eastern rock to sunset wave, The Continent is ours. Holmes.

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