A Contemporary Bibliography about the Columbia River and its Estuary
Over the past decade, we have benefited tremendously from a burgeoning, retrospective literature about the origins, discoveries and changes of Columbia River. We recommend the following books and articles as but a threshold to a wealth of writing about this unprecedented river, estuary and landscape:
Allen, J. and M. Burns. 1986. Cataclysms on the Columbia. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Clark, R. 1995. River of the West: Stories from the Columbia. Harper Collins West, New York, NY. 406 pp.
Cone, J. 1995. A Common Fate: Endangered Salmon and the People of the Pacific Northwest. Henry Holt & C., New York, NY. 340 pp.
Cone, J., and S. Ridlington (editors). 1996. The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR. 374 pp.
Dietrich, W. 1995. Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY. 448 pp.
Harden, B. 1996. A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. W. W. Norton & Co., New York, NY. 271 pp.
Hunn, E. 1990. Nch'I-Wana "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and their Land. Univ. Washington Press, Seattle, WA.
Li, K. 1993. Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment. Island Press, Washington, DC. 243 pp.
Martin, I. 1994. Legacy and Testament: The Story of Columbia River Gillnetters. Washington State University Press, Pullman, WA. 184 pp.
Nisbet, J. 1994. Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson across Western North America. Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA. 280 pp.
Nokes, J. 1992. Columbia's River: The Voyages of Robert Gray, 1787-1793. Washington State Historical Society.
Reisner, P. 1986. Cadillac Desert. Viking, New York, NY.
White, R. 1995. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill and Wang, New York, NY. 130 pp.
References of a more scientific nature can be found under Further Reading and the CRETM-LMER bibliography.
