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COLUMBIA: Spring 2005; Vol. 19, No. 1

Table of Contents

To Our Members   2

History Commentary   3
"It Takes Humor As Well As Whimsy to Name Names"
By Austin Post

Nineteen Forty-Nine   8
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The year a turning point was reached for development of the Columbia River Basin.
By William L. Lang

History Album   16
Miss Columbia.

Sold Our Canoes for a Few Strands of Beads   17
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The changing role of canoes on the Columbia River stretch of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
By Bob and Barbara Danielson

From the Collection   28
The Tacoma Japanese Telephone & Address Directory.

Tsugiki, a Grafting   29
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Reflections of an immigrant generation taking root in a new land.
By Gail Nomura

The Great Columbia Flood   40
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A Seattle schoolteacher-turned-geologist came up with a radical theory to explain eastern Washington's erratic boulders.
By Tom Mullen

Notices/Additional Reading   45

Columbia Reviews   46