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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026fg http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,783
Title pages image-257
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-16
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Description Image captions: RAFT IN TOW OF LAUNCH NEAR MOUTH OF SAN POIL (above)
IKE AT THE SWEEP BELOW HELL GATE (below) --page break-- he was ready for action—standing with crooked elbow at his crank, waiting an hour or more for the raft to shoot round the bend the next second, struck me as so ludicrous that I had to sit down myself to laugh without risk of rolling into the river. When I finally got my breath and sight back, I found Earl's ready mind had hit upon the idea of using the hickory...

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