Farthest Reach
OREGON AND WASHINGTON
by
NANCY WILSON ROSS
Text © 1941 by Nancy Wilson Ross
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Farthest Reach: Oregon and Washington was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York in 1941. Published by WestWinds Press®, an imprint of Graphics Arts Books®, Portland, Oregon, in 2015 with new typography and design, but without the original fold-out map and photographs.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ross, Nancy Wilson, 1901-1986
Farthest reach : Oregon and Washington / Nancy Wilson Ross.
pages cm
Originally published: 1941.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-941821-43-5 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-1-941821-61-9 (e-book)
ISBN 978-1-941821-79-4 (hardbound)
1. Oregon—Description and travel. 2. Washington (State)—Description and travel. I. Title.
F881.R67 2015
917.9504—dc23
2014043261
Front cover illustration: iStock.com/© kristyewing
Design: Vicki Knapton
Published by WestWinds Press®
An imprint of
P.O. Box 56118
Portland, Oregon 97238-6118
503-254-5591
Contents
I What Is the Pacific Northwest?
The River of Fable That Really Existed
SECTION II—SOME PLACES AND PEOPLE
III Among the Basques with a Scotchman
VI Gold, Uncivic Potatoes, and a Centenarian
VII Enterprise—A Lost Hat—The Canyon of Hell
IX Grande Ronde Country: An American Family
XI Walla Walla: Missionaries, Vigilantes, and a Rawhide Railroad
XII Yakima Valley: Two Towns, Irrigation, and Indians
XV Grand Coulee Dam: Man’s Biggest Job to Date
SECTION IV—MORE PLACES AND PEOPLE
I The Islands and the Land To and From
III Olympic Peninsula: Big Trees—Sacred Elk— Ghost Towns
Olympia
Salem