E. W. Wright’s Lewis & Dryden’s Marine History of the Pacific Northwest serves as an exhaustive chronicle of the maritime exploration, shipbuilding, and navigational enterprises that physically connected the region's vast coastlines and interior waterways. The extensive narrative maps the early nautical expansion from the treacherous coastal approaches of the Columbia River bar and the rugged shores of British Columbia's Vancouver Island, deep into the sheltered, bustling harbors of Washington's Puget Sound. By documenting the golden age of steamboat navigation, Wright traces the vital aquatic highways that penetrated the inland frontier, stretching up the turbulent Willamette, Columbia, and Fraser rivers, and pushing as far east as the perilous rapids of Idaho’s Snake River. Ultimately, this foundational text illustrates how the interconnected marine geography of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Idaho dictated the economic and cultural settlement of the entire Pacific Northwest.

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Originally published Portland, Or. : Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., 1895Listed in: The Washington 89 / by George H. TweneyDigitized verion of 1895 ed. available online through the Washington State Library Internet website on the Classics in Washington History page https://www.sos.wa.gov/library/publications_detail.aspx?p=44

Originally published Portland, Or. : Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., 1895Listed in: The Washington 89 / by George H. TweneyDigitized verion of 1895 ed. available online through the Washington State Library Internet website on the Classics in Washington History page https://www.sos.wa.gov/library/publications_detail.aspx?p=44