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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
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B Street tells stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was the place to play and let off steam for the white workingmen who had faced the hard times of the Depression. It was a raucous playground that denied blacks and most dark-skinned Indians access to the frivolity, good times, and pretty ladies that...
Author
Publisher
Washington State University Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
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Indian inhabitants laid out the basic travel routes in central Washington's Grand Coulee country probably 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. In the early 1800s, the semi-nomadic Sinkiuse and other Native Americans continued to use these routes through the spectacular coulees. Following in their footsteps came a host of white explorers and frontiersmen - at first in a trickle, then in greater numbers by mid-century. Forgotten Trails is a compilation of the...
Author
Publisher
Washington State University Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand Coulee Dam and the story of its construction is a vital, animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working to build something spectacular. These visionaries accomplished their objective against the backdrop of the worst economic depression in the nation's history. The dam and the extensive irrigation network it supports stand today as a monument to their dreams and labors....
17) Ruby, town girl
Author
Series
Children of the Quincy Valley volume 2
Publisher
Quincy Valley historical Society
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
Ruby's self-told story is woven around the history of the actual residents, who struggled to live through the effects of the Great Depression and country-wide drought. Yet, hope remains, as related in the movement to bring irrigation water to the farms in this fertile area. The culmination of that hopes is seen in 1933 with the onset of construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. Ruby's story portrays the hope for water, along with dozens of historic photographs.--back...
Publisher
John M. Kemble
Pub. Date
©2023
Language
English
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"This booklet is a culmination of collected history and field explorations. With a little imagination this booklet has many uses, and hopefully encourages the readers to explore the world around them, the amazing Grand Coulee." -- excerpt from second page.
Publisher
American Experience
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee in the wake of the Great Depression and the Native people whose lives were changed alongside historians and engineers, the film explores how the tension between technological achievement and environmental impact hangs over the project's legacy.
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