Book Description
Whitewater boating guidebook for the Snake River in Hells Canyon and the lower Salmon River with topographic maps and mile-by-mile descriptions
Author : Duwain Whitis
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780981939582
Whitewater boating guidebook for the Snake River in Hells Canyon and the lower Salmon River with topographic maps and mile-by-mile descriptions
Author : Grace Jordan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 1954-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803251076
During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a United States senator), his wife Grace, and their three small children-moved to an Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon, deepest scratch on the face of North America. "Cut off from the world for months at a time, the Jordans became virtually self-sufficient. Short of cash but long on courage, they raised and preserved their food, made their own soap, and educated their children."-Sterling North, New York World-Telegram "Home Below Hell's Canyon is valuable because it writes a little-known way of life into the national chronicle. We are put in touch with the kind of people who set the country on its feet and in the generations since have kept it there. . . . Primarily it is a book of courage and effort tempered by the warmth of those who trust in goodness and practice it."-Christian Science Monitor "The thrilling story of a modern pioneer family. . . . An intensely human account filled with fun, courage and rich family life."-Seattle Post Intelligencer
Author : Duwain Whitis
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (Idaho and Or.)
ISBN : 9780977674961
Author : John Carrey
Publisher :
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Hells Canyon
ISBN : 9780960356607
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (Or. and Idaho)
ISBN :
Author : R. Gregory Nokes
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :
Provides an account of the massacre of over thirty Chinese gold miners on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, a crime that has remained unsolved since 1887, and provides evidence that indicates the killers were a gang of seven rustlers and schoolboys who were never prosecuted for the murders.
Author : Kirk Anderson
Publisher : Kirk Anderson Collection
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780977442744
This must have coffee table book is a photographic exploration of 1200 miles following the Snake River from its source in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, across the Snake River Plain of Idaho, into North America's deepest gorge, Hells Canyon, bordering Oregon and eventually crossing the fertile plains of Washington State to its confluence with the Columbia River, Kirk chases the elusive elements of weather, season, and breathtaking locations through four states and over four years to produce a photographic monologue celebrating the largest river in the American West.
Author : Karl Boyd Brooks
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0295989769
In the years following World War II, the world’s biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho. Karl Boyd Brooks tells the story of the dam controversy, which became a referendum not only on public-power expansion but also on the environmental implications of the New Deal’s natural resources and economic policy. Private-power critics of the Hells Canyon High Dam posed difficult questions about the implications of damming rivers to create power and to grow crops. Activists, attorneys, and scientists pioneered legal tactics and political rhetoric that would help to define the environmental movement in the 1960s. The debate, however, was less about endangered salmon or threatened wild country and more about who would control land and water and whether state enterprise or private capital would oversee the supply of electricity. By thwarting the dam’s construction, Snake Basin irrigators retained control over water as well as economic and political power in Idaho, putting the state on a postwar path that diverged markedly from that of bordering states. In the end, the opponents of the dam were responsible for preserving high deserts and mountain rivers from radical change. With Public Power, Private Dams, Karl Brooks makes an important contribution not only to the history of the Pacific Northwest and the region’s anadromous fisheries but also to the environmental history of the United States in the period after World War II.
Author : Violet Wilson Shirley
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781478701279
This is one helluva narrative about one helluva woman who believed that Hells Canyon was her heaven. You'll be captivated by Violet Wilson Shirley's stories about ranch life in the deepest part of Hells Canyon. The Pete and Ethel Wilson family lived exemplary lives. Could we survive and scratch out a productive life in this rugged terrain with rattlesnakes, fickle weather, steep slopes, and animal predators constantly challenging our bodies and minds? Could we successfully raise eight children? After she retired, Violet returned to the canyon as a U.S. Forest Service volunteer at the Kirkwood visitor center. She contributed time almost every year between 1986 and 2004. Violet's spirit is chiseled into the cliffs and slopes of Hells Canyon and floats above the rapids of Snake River as it plunges through that spectacular gorge. - Tracy Vallier
Author : Fred Barstad
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Backpacking
ISBN : 9781585921201
Information about some of the finest trails through Hells Canyon, a National Recreation Area of cavernous gorges, timbered plateau, ridgetop meadows, and mountain wilderness.