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The Spokane River.

Lindholdt, Paul.

The Spokane River. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (297 pages)

Cover -- the Spokane River -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Encounters and Excursions -- Of Nudity and Violence, Waking and Water -- The River's Lasting Legacy -- Swimming the Big Eddy -- River Lessons -- Two Fly-Fishing Love Stories -- Latah Creek -- When the River Comes toward Me -- The Urban Outdoors -- Culture, History, Society -- What Is the Name of Our River? / stem̓ łuʔ skʷesc łuʔ qe ntx̣ʷetkʷ? -- Nature and Industry in Early Spokane: The Lumber versus Trout Debate -- The River Gives Us Our Way of Life -- How Spokane, Once a Pollution Denier, Became a Model for the Nation -- People's Park, Summer 1974 -- The Spokane River Centennial Trail -- Aboveground Tank Farms and Our Aquifer -- An Indian Named Lokout -- Two Poems -- Writing on Water: Sherman Alexie's Poetry on Salmon and Spokane Falls -- Beneath the Surface -- Spokane River Archaeology -- First Post: Spokane House, 1810-1825 -- Aboriginal and Historic Sport Fisheries -- Mining, Climate, and the Giant Salmonfly -- More Than a Bathtub Full of Rocks -- Pigments, PCBs, and the Spokane River -- Spokane River Instream Flows -- The Spokane Riverkeepers -- Waters of Life -- The Once and Future River -- Further Reading -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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