Introduction / Paul Lindholdt -- Encounters and excursions. Of nudity and violence, waking and water / Tod Marshall ; The river's lasting legacy / Becky Kramer ; Swimming the Big Eddy / Tim Connor ; River lessons / Julie Titone ; Two fly-fishing love stories / Bob Bartlett ; Latah Creek / Chris Kopczynski ; When the river comes toward me / Nance Van Winckel ; The urban outdoors / Jess Walter -- Culture, history, society. What is the name of our river? / stem̓ łu? sk[superscript w]esc łu? qe ntx̣[superscript w]etk[superscript w]? / Barry G. Moses (Sulustu) ; Nature and industry in early Spokane: the lumber versus trout debat / J. William T. Youngs ; The river gives us our way of life / Margo Hill ; How Spokane, once a pollution denier, became a model for the nation / William Stimson ; People's park, summer 1974 / Beatrice Lackaff ; The Spokane River Centennial Trail / Guadalupe Flores ; Aboveground tank farms and our aquifer / John Roskelley ; An indian named Lokout / Paul Lindholdt ; Two poems / Sherman Alexie ; Writing on water: Sherman Alexie's poetry on Salmon and Spokane Falls / Chad Wriglesworth -- Beneath the surface. Spokane River anthology / Sara L. Walker, Stan Gough, and Jerry R. Galm ; First post: Spokane House, 1810-1825 / Jack Nisbet ; Aboriginal and historic sport fisheries / Allan T. Scholz ; Mining, climate, and the giant salmonfly / Camille McNeely and Carmen A. Nezat ; More than a bathtub full of rocks / Stan Miller ; Pigments, PCBs, and the Spokane River / Don Fels ; Spokane River instream flows / Rachael Paschal Osborn ; The Spokane riverkeepers / Rick Eichstaedt, Bart Mihailovich, and Jerry White ; Waters of life / William S. Skylstad ; The once and future river / Gred Gordon.