A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia

"A River Lost is superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill."—Washington Post Book World After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington, could not have existed without massive irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams...