Author: Duwain Whitis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981939582
Category :
Languages : en
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Whitewater boating guidebook for the Snake River in Hells Canyon and the lower Salmon River with topographic maps and mile-by-mile descriptions

Author: Carole Simon-Smolinski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781881090076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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This book remains the definitive history of the deepest of all American gorges.

Author: Violet Wilson Shirley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478701279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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This is one helluva narrative about one helluva woman who believed that Hells Canyon was her heaven. You'll be captivated by Violet Wilson Shirley's stories about ranch life in the deepest part of Hells Canyon. The Pete and Ethel Wilson family lived exemplary lives. Could we survive and scratch out a productive life in this rugged terrain with rattlesnakes, fickle weather, steep slopes, and animal predators constantly challenging our bodies and minds? Could we successfully raise eight children? After she retired, Violet returned to the canyon as a U.S. Forest Service volunteer at the Kirkwood visitor center. She contributed time almost every year between 1986 and 2004. Violet's spirit is chiseled into the cliffs and slopes of Hells Canyon and floats above the rapids of Snake River as it plunges through that spectacular gorge. - Tracy Vallier

Author: Grace Jordan
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803251076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a United States senator), his wife Grace, and their three small children-moved to an Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon, deepest scratch on the face of North America. "Cut off from the world for months at a time, the Jordans became virtually self-sufficient. Short of cash but long on courage, they raised and preserved their food, made their own soap, and educated their children."-Sterling North, New York World-Telegram "Home Below Hell's Canyon is valuable because it writes a little-known way of life into the national chronicle. We are put in touch with the kind of people who set the country on its feet and in the generations since have kept it there. . . . Primarily it is a book of courage and effort tempered by the warmth of those who trust in goodness and practice it."-Christian Science Monitor "The thrilling story of a modern pioneer family. . . . An intensely human account filled with fun, courage and rich family life."-Seattle Post Intelligencer

Author: Tim Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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NORTHWEST.

Author: Duwain Whitis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977674961
Category : Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (Idaho and Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: John Carrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960356607
Category : Hells Canyon
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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Author: Bill Bonnichsen
Publisher: Idaho Geological Survey
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Structural
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: Pamela Royes
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619028832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell's Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent's world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces Pam to the vanishing culture of the wandering shepherd and together they embark on a four–year sojourn into the wilderness. From the back of a horse, Pam leads her packstring of readers from overlook to water crossing, down trails two thousand years old, and from the vantages she chooses for us, we feel the edges of our own experiences. It is a memoir of falling in love with a place and a man and the price extracted for that love. Written with deep lyricism, Temperance Creek is a work of haunting beauty, fresh and irreverent and rooted in the grit and pleasure of daily life. This is Pam's story, but the courage and truth in the telling is part of our human experience. Seen through a slower more primary mirror, one not so crowded with objectivity, Pam's memoir, is a kind of home–coming, a family reunion for shooting stars.

Author: John Carrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960356621
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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