River of Memory is a captivating read on the Columbia River before it was tamed by the 14 hydraulic dams that confine its flow today. Layman takes the reader on a journey from the river’s mouth on the Pacific coast of Oregon to its headwaters at Columbia Lake in eastern British Columbia. Magnificent black-and-white photographs of the river in its natural state—taken before the 1930s—give the reader a feel for the majesty of this great river. Accompanying Layman’s narrative are the wor
October 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Cup-Spinning Scene: How Did They Do It?
- The Boys at the Bar
- Rawhide
- Track Of The Cat
- Cheyenne
- The Wild Wild West
- F Troop
- Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
- Spirit Car
- Bitter Wind
- Come Sundown
- Smonk
- The Skinning Knife
- The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880
- When Silver was King: Arizona’s 1880s Silver King Mine
- River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
- Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide
- Charles F. Lummis: Editor of the Southwest
- The Western Godfather
- Stuck to Her Dream