COLUMBIA Magazine Topical Index

Arts & Entertainment

• A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles' 1964 Seattle Concert gave Seattleites a taste of "Beatlemania."
• Helmi: Letters from Elma - Nellie Cornish said to me, "Whoever becomes an artist dedicates himself to a lifetime of hard work." Someone also said, "Artists and saints are akin"-both possess infinite patience. -Helmi Juvonen.
• Ten Dollars a Song - Woody Guthrie sells his talent to the Bonneville Power Administration.
• Centralia's Union Mural - "The Resurrection of Wesley Everest" Depicts Labor's Side of the Centralia Massacre.
• The Artistic Views of Gustavus Sohon - This series of images provides graphic details of Colonel George Wright's "savage campaign" of 1858.
• Indian Trade Blankets in the Pacific Northwest - From a humble and utilitarian beginning as a trade good and article of clothing to a prized status symbol and valuable collector's item.
• Painting for Time - The art colony at Nespelem sought to portray Native Americans as "living history".
• Miss Kitty Takes to the Road - The Barretts of Wimpole Street in Seattle.

Biography

• T. F. McElroy - Pioneer Publisher of Washington's First Newspaper.
• Witness to History - The Life and Times of Ralph Chaplin.
• The Water Rises - Clarence C. Dill's Battle for Grand Coulee Dam.
• Nettie Craig Asberry - A Pillar of Tacoma's African American Community.

Columbia River & Environmental History

• Great River of the West - Two Ways of Seeing the Columbia- Reflections on "an Officially Designated Cultural Landscape".
• Upriver by Steamer to Idaho - Reflections on the evolution of a water highway.
• The Water Rises - Clarence C. Dill's Battle for Grand Coulee Dam.
• Through the "Magnificent Gateway" - The Columbia River and Early Emigrant Travel
• River of Memory: The Columbia, Wild and Free - What was the Columbia like before the dams?
• The Elwha Dam - Economic gain wins out over saving salmon runs, as hatcheries deliver developers from the onus of preserving fish runs.
• 1949: Year of Decision on the Columbia River - The year a turning point was reached for the development of the Columbia Basin.
• The Great Columbia Flood: An Epic Geologic Event that Shaped Landforms and Ideas - A Seattle schoolteacher-turned-geologist came up with a radical theory to explain eastern Washington's erratic boulders.

Cultural Diversity, Ethnicity and Race Relations

• The Promised Land - Spokane's Hutterite Community - A Place Where History Lives.
• Segregation in Spokane - Longtime Black Residents Recount the Injustices and the Victories.

Early Settlers

• Massacre on the Oregon Trail - The emigrants were nearly to their home in the Northwest when disaster struck.
• Almost Columbia, Triumphantly Washington - The pioneer spirit and political audacity combine to create a Washington Territory, just in time.
• T. F. McElroy - Pioneer Publisher of Washington's First Newspaper.
• Through the "Magnificent Gateway" - The Columbia River and Early Emigrant Travel
• Lessons From an Old Road - Traces still remain of Frederick Dent's wagon road between Dallesport and the Yakima Valley.
• The Adventures of a Pioneer Judge and His Family - Good-bye Cleveland—hello Cathlamet and life on the northwestern frontier.
• January Harvest - Bringing in the ice "crop" in the Inland Northwest.

Economic Development

• Just Passing Through - The Spokane Tourist Experience in the Late 19th Century
• After the Fire - The Influence of H. H. Richardson on the Rebuilding of Seattle, 1889-1894.
• A Mountain Calling - The Tacoma Eastern Railroad-Linking Puget Sound and Mount Rainier National Park.
• Sea of Fire - The Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889.
• The Water Rises - Clarence C. Dill's Battle for Grand Coulee Dam.
• Migration of a Cultural Landscape Pattern - Leavenworth and Pacific Northwest Fabricated Communities.
• The Hanford Site - Washington's Largest Battlefield and Its Lessons
• Capitol Hill - A New Seattle Neighborhood, Courtesy of J. A. Moore
• January Harvest - Bringing in the ice "crop" in the Inland Northwest.
• Highway History - The 1933 Road Survey through the Northern Cascades.
• How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? - Washington's country life reformers were part of a national effort to reduce the migration of young people from rural to urban areas.

Exploration (see also Lewis & Clark)

• The Wilkes Expedition in the Pacific Northwest - The Wilkes expedition of 1838 to 1842 provides a window through which to view the region at a crucial time in its history.
• Cook's Last Voyage: A Fruitless Search for the Fabled Northwest Passage - When James Cook sailed Endeavour to the Pacific in 1768 there were still a number of outstanding questions left to answer about this vast uncharted ocean.

Government, Politics, & Law

• Almost Columbia, Triumphantly Washington - The pioneer spirit and political audacity combine to create a Washington Territory, just in time.
• Statehood for Washington - Politics, railroads and resources influenced the struggle.
• Everything Rolled Downhill - A Brief History of the Okanogan County Courthouse.
• A Public-Private Stewardship for Washington's Legislative Building? YES! - A public-private partnership needed to preserve the Legislative Building.
• Grays Harbor County Courthouse - A Crown for the "Maid of Wynooche."
• The Run from Farm to Farm - As Fort Steilacoom becomes Western State Hospital.
• Ellensburg's Tree of Justice - "Vigilante Law" Leads to a Double Lynching.
• The Creation of Washington Territory - Securing Democracy North of the Columbia
• Mission in a Monument - Rehabilitating the Washington State Legislative Building in the Wake of the Nisqually Earthquake.
• History Commentary - Elected Office and the Case of Mark Litchman, One of Washington's Jewish Political Pioneers
• A Lady in the Senate: The Political Career of Reba Hurn - Reba Hurn became the first woman elected to the Washington State Senate.

Labor

• Centralia's Union Mural - "The Resurrection of Wesley Everest" Depicts Labor's Side of the Centralia Massacre.
• Witness to History - The Life and Times of Ralph Chaplin.

Lewis & Clark

• Lewis and Clark - They were not legends in their own time.
• What Really Happened to Meriwether Lewis? - The suicide explanation is not generally believed down on the Natchez Trail.
• Harbingers of Change - European Influences in the Aboriginal Northwest as Seen through the Journals of Lewis and Clark
• What the Lewis and Clark Expedition Means to America - Historian Dayton Duncan on how the Corps of Discovery's expedition shaped America.
• The Legacy of the Lewis and Clark Expedition - The journey of Lewis & Clark has left a remarkable legacy to the Pacific Northwest.
• Self-Destruction on the Natchez Trace - Meriwether Lewis's Act of Ultimate Courage
• The Sacagawea Mystique: Her Age, Name, Role and Final Destiny - A biographical essay on Sacagawea, the Shoshoni Indian woman member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as background information prefacing the issuance of the new Sacagawea dollar.
• Seneca Falls to Celilo Falls - Ruminations of a Traveling Historian
• The Vote: "Station Camp," Washington - An historic vote takes place on the shore of the Columbia River.
• A Lasting Legacy, Part I - The Lewis and Clark Place Names of the Pacific Northwest
• A Lasting Legacy, Part II - The Lewis and Clark Place Names of the Pacific Northwest
• A Lasting Legacy, Part III - The Lewis and Clark Place Names of the Pacific Northwest
• A Lasting Legacy, Part IV - The Lewis and Clark Place Names of the Pacific Northwest
• Knowing Your "Place" - Lewis & Clark and the Invention of American Realism
• Following in Their Footsteps - The birth and infancy of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, 24 years old in November 2002.
• Hunting for Empire - Lewis & Clark claim a continent for science.
• Provision Camp - Lewis and Clark restock and reconnoiter before resuming their journey back up the Columbia River.
• Lewis and Clark's Indian Presents - Following the confusing paper trail of how much and what kinds of gifts and trade goods the Corps of Discover carried west.
• "So Vast an Enterprise"—Lewis & Clark Revisited - Historian James P. Ronda discusses the Lewis & Clark expedition in the context of a great American road trip.
• "Grouse of the Lewis & Clark Expedition" - Lewis and Clark included numerous descriptions of the grouse in their journals.
• Old Rivet - The Surviving Member of the Corps of Discovery in the Northwest.
• Long Iron: The Black Powder Arms of Lewis & Clark - A look at the role of firearms on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
• Searching for Point Lewis: Piecing Together the Location of a Lost Landmark - A history sleuth solves the mystery of William Clark's lost landmark.
• Sold Our Canoes for a Few Strands of Beads: The Lewis & Clark Canoes on the Columbia River - The changing role of canoes on the Columbia Riber stretch of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
• Twisted Hair, Tetoharsky, and the Origin of the New Sacagawea Myth - Unraveling the Sacagawea myths.
• Adventures in Ichthyology: Pacific Northwest Fish of the Lewis and Clark Expedition - Lewis and Clark made if a challenge for future fish experts to identify all the varieties of fish encountered during the expedition.

Military & War

• Our "Splendid Little War" - Washingtonians who volunteered for military duty during the Spanish American War ended up fighting in the Phillipines.
• Douglas A. Munro, a World War II Hero from Cle Elum - Douglas Munro received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest commendation that can be conferred by the United States government.
• San Juan Sheep War - British and American Interests Butted Heads in this Precursor to the Pig War.
• The Guns of Fort Worden - World War I Memories of a Young Guardsman in Washington's Coast Artillery.
• The Hanford Site - Washington's Largest Battlefield and Its Lessons
• The Artistic Views of Gustavus Sohon - This series of images provides graphic details of Colonel George Wright's "savage campaign" of 1858.
• Culpable Inefficiency in the Performance of Duty - The 1934 Collision between the Battleship USS Arizona and the Dockton Purse Seiner Umatilla.
• Its Equal I Have Never Seen: Custer Explores the Black Hills in 1874 - Custer in the Black Hills—an expedition to Paradise.

Native Americans

• Massacre on the Oregon Trail - The emigrants were nearly to their home in the Northwest when disaster struck.
• The Sacagawea Mystique: Her Age, Name, Role and Final Destiny - A biographical essay on Sacagawea, the Shoshoni Indian woman member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as background information prefacing the issuance of the new Sacagawea dollar.
• Hard Lessons in America - Henry Sicade's History of Puyallup Indian School, 1860 to 1920.
• Indian Trade Blankets in the Pacific Northwest - From a humble and utilitarian beginning as a trade good and article of clothing to a prized status symbol and valuable collector's item.
• River of Memory: The Columbia, Wild and Free - What was the Columbia like before the dams?
• Twisted Hair, Tetoharsky, and the Origin of the New Sacagawea Myth - Unraveling the Sacagawea myths.
• In a Familiar Yet Foreign Land: The Life and Memories of Henry Sicade, 1866-1938 - Reflections on the life of Henry Sicade, Puyallup tribal elder and "cultural broker."
• Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan - Ranald MacDonald™son of a Chinook princess and a Hudson's Bay Company official™yearned to visit Japan.

Sports and Recreation

• Coming Full Circle - The Development of Mount Rainier's Wonderland Trail, 1907-1939.
• The Seattle Pilots - Major League Baseball's First Venture in the Pacific Northwest.
• The Loser Who Won - The Story of the Legendary Gil Dobie, University of Washington football coach.
• "Irish Pat" McMurtry - The world heavyweight champion who might have been.
• Beisboleros - How a handful of pioneering Latinos made their way into major league baseball in the Pacific Northwest.

Women's History

• The Sacagawea Mystique: Her Age, Name, Role and Final Destiny - A biographical essay on Sacagawea, the Shoshoni Indian woman member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as background information prefacing the issuance of the new Sacagawea dollar.
• Helmi: Letters from Elma - Nellie Cornish said to me, "Whoever becomes an artist dedicates himself to a lifetime of hard work." Someone also said, "Artists and saints are akin"-both possess infinite patience. -Helmi Juvonen.
• Miss Kitty Takes to the Road - The Barretts of Wimpole Street in Seattle.
• Love Hennie - Writing Home about Pioneer Life on the Columbia, 1853-1854.
• Rescuing the Destitute - The Salvation in Spokane, 1891-1920
• Nettie Craig Asberry - A Pillar of Tacoma's African American Community.
• Twisted Hair, Tetoharsky, and the Origin of the New Sacagawea Myth - Unraveling the Sacagawea myths.
• A Lady in the Senate: The Political Career of Reba Hurn - Reba Hurn became the first woman elected to the Washington State Senate.

History Lab Learning Center

• Inquiry in Action - Building the Washington State Historical Society's History Lab.