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pages xviii-xix

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026k http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,653
Title pages xviii-xix
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-03
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Description Drake and Anson are sharing your night watches, so on the Columbia it is Thompson and Cox and Lewis and Clark who come to be your guiding spirits. At the head of every one of the major rapids you land just as you know they must have landed, and it is as through their eyes that you survey the work ahead. And when, rather against your better judgment, you decide to attempt to run a winding gorge where the sides are too steep to permit lining and where a portage would mean the loss of a...

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