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COLUMBIA: Spring 1997; Vol. 11, No. 1
Table of Contents
From the President: 2
History Commentary: 3
A board member looks back at the Society's last 10 years.
By Charles Twining
They Staggered as if They Were Drunk: 6
The Yakutat Bay earthquakes of September 1899.
By William Alley
Uncle Sam's Response to the Great Depression: 14
A pictorial record of the New Deal program that put unemployed Washingtonians on the job.
By Carlos A. Schwantes
Oceanography Comes to the University of Washington: 20
Thomas G. Thompson and the creation of the first marine sciences school in the Northwest.
By Victor B. Scheffer with Richard M. Strickland
Mary Richardson Walker: 26
A glimpse into the life of one of the Oregon Country's first women missionaries.
By Joyce W. Prairie
Negotiations or Dictations?: 32
Why did Isaac Stevens's Chehalis River treaty council fail to produce a signed agreement?
By Cary C. Collins
History Album: 40
Motorcycle madness.
Wooden Money: 41
The Depression-era scrip from Tenino that became famous around the world.
By Arthur Dwelley
Correspondence/Additional Reading: 45
Columbia Reviews: 46
Recent books of interest in Northwest history.
Edited by Robert C. Carriker
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