The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens (1912) (14760317416)

Identifier: guardiansofcolum00wi (find matches)
Title: The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, John H. (John Harvey), b. 1864
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Publisher: Tacoma, J.H. Williams
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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Grant Castle and Palisades of the Columbia, on north side of the river below The Dalles. Cascade Mountains, the severe cold of a northern winter is tempered by theChinook winds from the Pacific. A period of freezing weather is shortlyfollowed by the melting of the snow upon the distant mountains; by nightthe warm Chinook sweeps up the Columbia canyon and across the passes, andin a few hours the mildness of spring covers the land. Such a phenomenon inevitably stirred the Indian to an attempt to in-terpret it. Like the ancients of other races, he personified the winds. TheYakima account of the struggle between the warm winds from the coast andthe icy blasts out of the Northeast will bear comparison with the Homeric THE RIVER 47
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The Dalles of the Columbia, lower channel, east of Dalles City. The river, crowded into a narrow flume,flows here at a speed often exceeding ten miles an hour. tale of Ulysses, buffeted by the breezes from the bag given him by the wind-god Aeolus. Five Chinook brothers, said the Yakima tradition, lived on the great river.They caused the warm winds toblow. Five other brothers lived atWalla Walla, the meeting place ofthe waters. They caused the coldwinds. The grandparents of themall lived at Umatilla, home of thewind-blown sands. Always there waswar between them. They swept overthe country, destroying the forests,covering the rivers with ice, or melt-ing the snows and causing floods.The people suffered much because oftheir violence. Then Walla Walla brothers chal-lenged Chinook brothers to wrestle. Speelyei, the coyote god, should cabbage RocU, a huge freak of nature standing in. • o 7 ^jjg open plain four miles north of The Dalles, judge the contest. He should cut Apparently, the lav