Northwest Passage

William Dietrich, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for his coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, is the author of Natural Grace: The Charm, Wonder, and Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants, The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest, and popular fiction.

Introduction to the 2016 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Picnic in the Coulee

2. The River of Imagination

3. Vagrant and Most Dangerous

4. Beginning and End

5. The Sculpted River

6. Comcomly’s Head

7. In Heathen Lands to Dwell

8. The River That Was

9. Out Here

10. The Inland Empire

11. The Electric Revolution

12. The Biggest Thing on Earth

13. The House of Lies

14. The Salmon Gauntlet

15. The Poisoned River

16. Cloudville

Epilogue

A Columbia River Chronology

Major Dams of the Columbia Basin

Bibliography

Index