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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I -- APRIL, 1958
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Title page
Copyright and recognitions
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Table of Contents
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1 Committees and Acknowledgements
2 Forward
4 A Brief Chronological History of the Construction of Grand Coulee Dam
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9 The Original Inhabitants: The Indians
11 Old Ferries on the River
11 Keller Ferry
11 Plum Ferry
11 Seaton Ferry
12 Grant County Ferry
12 Stevenson Ferry
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13 Grand Coulee: From Boom Town to Home Town
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20 A Writer Views Grand Coulee During Construction Days
21 Grand Coulee Newspapers
24 Grand Coulee Post Office
25 Coulee Dam Post Office
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26 Coulee Dam Schools
27 Grand Coulee School Districts, Rural Area
28 The Earliest Grand Coulee School
29 Fiddle Creek School
30 First School
30 The North Star School
31 Washington School in Lincoln County
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32 Old Schools in the Grand Coulee
32 Alameda School on Alameda Flats
32 Sam Post Office and Store
32 Rex Grange
33 History of the Grand Coulee Schools
35 Steamboat Rock School
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37 Churches
37 Grand Coulee Community Methodist Church
38 Seventh Day Adventist Church
38 Assembly of God Church of Electric City
38 Church of the Nazarene
38 Catholic Churches
39 Leahy Mission Church
40 Episcopal Church
40 Zion Lutheran Church
41 Christian Science Society
41 Jehovah's Witnesses
43 Coulee Dam Community Church
43 Grand Coulee Community Church
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44 City and Towns
44 Elmer City
47 Delano
47 Lone Pine
48 Koontzville
48 Electric City
48 Fire Departments
48 Electric City Fire Department
49 Grand Coulee Fire Department
50 Coulee Dam Fire Department
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53 KFDR Radio
54 Utilities of the Rex-Delrio Areas
54 Electricity
54 Telephones
55 Douglas County Fire Protection District No. 3
56 Delrio
58 Delrio Grange
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60 Delrio Church and Cemetery
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61 Memories of Homestead Days
61 Roy R. Rankin
62 Florence Armbruster Peasley
63 Bill Meyer
64 Margaret Wallace Filton
65 Roy Cunningham
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66 William B. Pendell
66 Benjamin J. Alling
67 Hal Rice
68 Bill Summers
68 Max and Verna Cunningham
69 Mrs. George Stanard
69 Loren Pendell
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71 History of the Barry Area
72 Fiddle Creek Gang
72 Big Bar or Washington Flats
74 Waite Steveson
74 Florence Armbruster Peasley
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75 Mabel Sanderson
75 Lucy B. Heidt
75 Paul Filion
76 Alex Sanderson
77 Frank Sanford
77 Mabel Adair Sanford
78 John J. Sellers
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81 Across the Coulee
82 Sellers Landing
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84 Early Settlers and Reminiscences
84 Fred Weber
85 George Trefry
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88 Emry Vance
92 George Trefry
92 Mae Rinker Snodgrass
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93 The Thoren Family
94 "Pop" Wallis
94 Streets in Grand Coulee
95 The First Town Band
96 Pluvius Irrigation Company
96 Sheminski's Vineyard on the Columbia
96 Rattlesnake Canyon
97 Fleet-Schrock Ranch
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98 Alameda Flats
101 Widby and Jennie Crider
101 Mrs. Louis Eylar
102 Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McKee
103 Joe (William Joseph) Price
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104 Cora Seaton Rinker
105 Roy Harper
105 Bess Seaton Dumas
106 Pauline and Bernard White
107 The Nilles, Campbell and Leahy Families
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108 Wesley Rinker
109 Ida Shaffer
110 Emmett Shaffer
111 Garnet Taylor Rinker
112 Mrs. George Trefry
113 Mrs. Charlie Trefry
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115 Northrup Canyon and Steamboat Rock
116 Rod Hopkins
117 Dora Walton Phillips
118 Ed Klobucher
119 LaFollette Cemetery
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120 The Osborne Brothers -- Oscar and Charles
121 Harry Fulton
123 Do You Remember When
124 Ed Schrock -- A Venture in Ranching
126 Thomson Ranch
127 The Herdrich - Birchell Place
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128 Weber's "Lazy Triangle Plus" Ranch
131 The shooting of Bill Stubblefield
132 Albert and Matilda Macho
133 Mrs. John Schweighardt
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135 Hans and Matilda Lange
137 Miss Lical Park
139 Death of "Wild Goose" Bill Condon
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144 Wild Goose Bill and Barton Parks
145 Bibliography
146 Jay Sellers Trip Through Box Canyon
148 From Squaw Creek to Strahl Canyon -- Dorothy Strahl Holbert
PART II -- SUMMER OF 1976:
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152 Reflections
153 The Grand Coulee Dam Area Bicentennial Association
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157 The Third Powerplant of Grand Coulee Dam
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160 The Years of Transition: 1957 - 1976
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164 The Grand Coulee Blue Rock Worm
166 From U. S. to Us
169 Bibliography
170 49 Hillside Trailer Camp
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172 Towns:
172 Lone pine
173 Osborne
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176 Grand Coulee
177 Mayors of Grand Coulee
177 Mayors of Coulee Dam
178 Grand Coulee To Have A Birthday
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181 Elmer City
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188 Businesses: Rawe and Rauch hardware
188 Browne's Department Store
189 Maytag Shop
189 Loepp Furniture and Appliances
189 Button Jewelers
190 Grayce's
190 Wright Chevrolet Company
191 Russell Drug
191 Vordahl's Variety
191 M & M Furniture and Music
192 Grand Coulee Cleaners
192 KFDR Radio
192 Wild Life Restaurant
193 Safeway
194 Gateway Tavern
194 Sears Catalog Sales Office
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196 Hospital
196 First Local Newspaper in 1933
197 Post Offices:
197 Alameda Post Office
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197 Barry Post Office
198 Delrio Post Office
198 Lella Post Office
198 Rex Post Office
198 Sam Post Office
198 Sanderson Post Office
198 Stowe Post Office
198 Wallace Post Office
199 Old Roosevelt Theatre
200 Rex Grange
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201 Grand Coulee Public Library
203 Coulee Dam (Mason City) Schools
204 Edward L. Greene Memorial Field and Scholarship
205 Grand Coulee Schools
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206 Fiddle Creek School
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212 Schools of the Area
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215 Teachers of Upper Douglas County:
215 District 3 - Rock Lake
216 District 5 - Battle Creek
216 District 9 - Meadow Springs
216 District 18 - Delrio
217 District 20 - Fiddle Creek
217 District 27 - Fiddle Creek
218 District 32 - Lone Pine
218 District 41 - Barry
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219 District 46 - Rex
220 District 57 - Alameda
221 District 60 - McIntosh
222 District 69 - Mountain View
222 District 95 - Pikes Peak
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223 District 112 - Delrio
223 District 119 - Mountain View
224 District 146 - Tipso
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225 Churches:
226 Coulee Dam Community Church
228 First Baptist Church
229 The Church of Christ
230 The Seventh Day Adventist Church
231 Christian Science Society
232 Jehovah's Witnesses
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233 Zion Lutheran Church
234 Assembly of God Church
234 First Baptist Church of Grand Coulee
235 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
236 United Methodist Church
238 St. Henry's and St. Benedict's Catholic Churches
240 St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church
240 Church of the Nazarene
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242 Cemeteries:
242 Spring Canyon Cemetery
242 Aisle of Flags at Spring Canyon Cemetery
243 Tombstone Inscriptions in Delrio Cemetery
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247 Recreation:
247 Coulee Dam National Recreation Area
248 Steamboat Rock State Park
249 Fishing Yesterday and Today in the Grand Coulee Dam Area
251 Hunting and Trapping in the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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253 Farming:
254 Farms Threatened by Bombing Range
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256 Memories of Coulee Country: Bachelor in Barker Canyon - Old Man Barker
258 Buckley Springs - Si Buckley, Bachelor-Homesteader
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261 Old Ferries in this Area
263 Monument in the Sage - Thomas Douglas Stimson
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265 Plum Point History Recalled
266 Boats Chug Where Indian Drums, Chants Prevailed
267 Legendary Stones Disappear
268 Stage Stops and Old Freight Roads
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269 They Remember '36 When River Froze at Grand Coulee Dam
269 Elmer Rauch
270 Rod Hartman
270 Hu Blonk
270 Ida Bartels
270 Dorothy Holbert
270 Jack Hilson
270 Bob Ludolph
270 Hayden McKee
271 Vern Canterbury
271 Cattle Stealing, Socials Spiced Delano's History
273 Naming the Delano District
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274 Glider Shadows on the Coulee Walls
275 The Slide
275 Ranching and Rodeoing Homesteader Style
277 First Lady Dolls
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277 Did You Know That
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283 Pioneers of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
283 Margaret Seaton Taschereau (mother of C. S.)
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285 Edna Zelia Whitney Alling
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286 The Sidney Ford Family
288 Marie Baines
[What follows has yet to be transcribed and posted}
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290 David Lewis, Enterprising Bachelor
292 William Barton Pendell
292 Gladys Pendell Meyers
295 Milton Cleghorn
296 Tillie Pozar
296 Dam's Taxi Dancer Days Recalled
298 Early Steamboat Rock
300 Lester Scott - A Bachelor Herdsman
303 Ed Funk, Bachelor of Fun
305 Albert Armbruster, Pioneer
308 Ed Armbruster, Pioneer
310 Wild Goose Bill Lived and Died Colorfully
311 Samuel Wilbur Condon
316 The Rice Brothers - Bob, Delbert and Ted
319 Oscar F. Osborne
325 Jed Pendell Reminisces
328 Bill Condon, Jr.
330 George Nanamkin
331 Matt Snyder
332 Horace W. Bozarth
338 Cull A. White
340 Peter Dan Moses
343 Sam Seaton (grandfather of C. S.)
346 Fred Rice, Sr., Family and Upper Douglas County
352 Florence Armbruster Peasley
355 Len Dillman, The Optimist
357 Len Dillman, Bachelor
359 Rebecca and Sam Steveson
362 The Fry Family
362 The Wyborney Family
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363 William Andrews, Steamboat Bill
365 C. D. Newland and the Green Hut
366 Sam and Clara Price
366 Melford and Emma Traver
367 Bill And Betty Beery
368 Susie Wilkerson
371 Jess L. Lewis
373 Rhea Dumas Coleman (cousin 1x removed of C. S.)
374 Floyd Sheely Retired from U. S. B. R.
376 Bob Gemmell - Legendary Old Grand Coulee - Gone, But Not Forgotten
378 Herman Friedlander
379 John Michaud
382 The Max Cunninghams
382 Theodora Banks Baird
384 Emil Gehrke - The Windmill Maker
386 Kaden Family of Alameda Flats
387 Little Audrey Trefry
388 Herb Buelen, Bachelor in Love
392 Memories of Coulee Country
395 William P. Thomson, Pioneer Homesteader
397 Hans Lang, Homestead Days
401 Memories of Coulee Country - Barker Canyon
403 Hans and Matilda Ann Lange, Wedding Journey in 1885
408 A Day to Remember
409 Wild Horses and Round-Up
413 Where Was It Map
414 Map Locations
415 Poem: Coulee Pat-A-Cake
416 Index
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