Record Details
Prologue
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Prologue |
| Relation | Power and the Pacific Northwest |
| Date | 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 214.679 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | ProIogue The Pacific Northwest, at the coming of early explorers, was a vast wilderness through which the Columbia River surged unfettered to the sea. The basin of the Columbia covers 258,000 square miles, a territory which now includes the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and portions of British Columbia, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. As were the earliest of civilizations clustered along the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, and Yangtze Rivers, the Columbia Basin, 12,000 years ago,... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1926 |
