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COLUMBIA: Spring 1995; Vol. 9, No. 1

Table of Contents

From the President 2

History Commentary 3
Shoot-out at the P(olitically) C(orrect) Corral.
By Michael Allen

Regulars and Militia 6
The changing role of the post-frontier militia in Washington.
By Kent D. Richards

The Politics of Transportation 13
How Washington's state government got into the ferry business.
By George W. Scott

Washington's Public Architecture 20
For over a century, state planners and architects have been " building for the future."
By Norman J. Johnson

The Wreck of the Crown City 24
This Puget Sound-based merchant freighter risked crew and cargo in 1942 while participating in the war effort.
By Harold F. Osborne

Hanford's Historic Reactors 31
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The story of Hanford's early years in one of constant change.
By Michele S. Gerber

From the Collection 37
Hudson's Bay Company recruitment poster.

"Whole Kingdoms for the Sake of a Harbor"
A route to the Pacific Northwest via the 49th parallel and the Oregon Treaty negotiations.
By Daniel Clayton

Correspondence/Additional Reading 45

Columbia Reviews 46
Recent books of interest in Northwest history.
Edited by Robert C. Carriker