Before the Northwest sported trains and roads alongside its rivers, steamboats took the curious and the settlers as far inland as the water could take them. Gulick describes the boats and the people who plied the rivers from Idaho to Alaska in the early days of white settlement, focusing on the career of the irascible William Polk Gray, who turned from his aspirations to be a missionary medical man to become a skilled fresh-water mariner. Gray and only a few dozen others like him managed

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The most eager Beaver Home-made steamboats Columbia River Gorge Gold rush to British Columbia Colonel Wright explorer steamboat Willie Gray, rapids swimmer Glory days on the river Doc Baker's rawhide railroad Wreck of the Daisy Ainsworth. Suicide of the pony engine Running rapids The ice-breaker and fixing creator mistakes Shipwrecks and river disasters Cascade Locks and the Eureka Mine The wreck of the Imnaha Upper river survey Captain Gray in Alaska Captain Gray's retirement years