Record details

• ISBN: 9780520266155
• ISBN: 0520266153
• Physical Description: 1 atlas (240 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 33 cm
• Publisher: Berkeley ; University of California Press, ©2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Maps on lining papers.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Mapping Washington and Oregon -- The First Inhabitants -- The Northwest Imagined -- Origan -- The First Explorations -- Gray's Columbia -- Oregon Overload -- The Fur Traders -- Alexander Ross's Map -- Hudson's Bay Company Forts -- Promoters and Missionaries -- The Oregon Question -- An Island Peninsula -- The Middle of the Channel -- The Oregon Trail -- Settling the Willamette -- Early Portland -- Paths to Statehood -- Indian Wars -- Southern Gold -- Moving North -- Surveying the Coast -- Steamboats and Rail Roads -- Military Wagon Roads -- The Railroad Comes to the Northwest -- The Northern Pacific -- Seattle's Own Railroad -- Walla Walla's Railroad -- The Northern Pacific Land Grant -- Coal for Railroad and City -- The Oregon Railway -- Connecting with California -- Orphan Road -- Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern -- Building an Empire -- Gold and Silver -- Portland Preeminent -- The Gothenburg Plan -- The Hutchinson Maps -- Seattle Ascendant -- The Big Exposition -- Lake Washington Ship Canal -- Communities of the Northwest -- Tacoma -- Puyallup -- Olympia -- Bremerton -- Everett -- A Tale of Four Cities -- Anacortes -- Port Angeles -- Port Townsend -- Spokane -- Yakima -- Walla Walla -- Eugene and Springfield -- More Cities of Oregon -- Cities That Never Were -- National Parks and National Forests -- Wheat and Lumber -- Selling Oregon -- Early Irrigation Projects -- Navigating Puget Sound -- A Pacific Harbor -- Opening the Oregon Coast -- Railroad Expansion and Decline -- The Longest Tunnel -- Developing a Road System -- A Floating Bridge -- Galloping Gertie -- A Planned City -- The Dirty Thirties -- Water and Power -- War in the Northwest -- Making Atomic Bombs -- Apples, Apples -- Aviation Northwest -- The Cold War -- A World's Fair -- Superhighways -- Floating Bridges to Everywhere -- The Northwest Environment -- Map Catalog and Sources -- Other Illustrations -- Further Reading.

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