Afloat and Awash in the Old Northwest

by Marge Davenport

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093827404X
• ISBN13: 9780938274049
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Paddlewheel Press
• Length: 222 Pages

Customer Reviews

Great History Book

History is full of the unbelievable and hilarious. Culled from news paper articles the Author puts together a series of short articles detailing exploits related to the the waterways of Oregon and Washington. One of my favorites, the story of Captian Edgar Wakeman who stole the steamer New World in New York and sailed into the the Oregon Territory. Some other stories include how the North Bend got wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River, but instead of getting destroyed the tide pushed it across a spit of sand into the bay beyond where it was salvaged, repaired and sailed for another ten years. Or the story of the Chester which ran along the Cowlitz River in Washington and had a draft of only a few inches and would frequently load directly into wagons pulled up beside it. The author did a great job researching and compiling this. Lots of black and white pictures presumedly taken from news papers of the time adorn this book and make for an interesting read. I think this would be a good book to get children and young teens interested in history, or good supplemental material for a history teacher.