Sunday, February 19, 2012

FROM PIONEERS TO POWER - post 2


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TABLE OF CONTENTS


PART I -- APRIL, 1958

post 1:
        Title page
        Copyright and recognitions

post 2:  (you are here)
        Table of Contents

post 3:
   1   Committees and Acknowledgements
   2   Forward
   4   A Brief Chronological History of the Construction of Grand Coulee Dam

post 4:
   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

post 5:
 13   Grand Coulee: From Boom Town to Home Town

post 6:
 20   A Writer Views Grand Coulee During Construction Days
 21   Grand Coulee Newspapers
 24   Grand Coulee Post Office
 25   Coulee Dam Post Office

post 7:
 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

post 8:
 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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post 9:
 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

post 10:
 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

post 11:
 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

post 12:
 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

post 14:
 71   History of the Barry Area
 72      Fiddle Creek Gang
 72      Big Bar or Washington Flats
 74      Waite Steveson
 74      Florence Armbruster Peasley

post 15:
 75      Mabel Sanderson
 75      Lucy B. Heidt
 75      Paul Filion
 76      Alex Sanderson
 77      Frank Sanford
 77      Mabel Adair Sanford
 78      John J. Sellers

post 16:
 81   Across the Coulee
 82   Sellers Landing

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  84   Early Settlers and Reminiscences
  84      Fred Weber
  85      George Trefry

post 17:
  88      Emry Vance
  92      George Trefry
  92      Mae Rinker Snodgrass

post 18:
  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

post 19:
  98      Alameda Flats
101      Widby and Jennie Crider
101      Mrs. Louis Eylar
102      Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McKee
103      Joe (William Joseph) Price

post 20:
104      Cora Seaton Rinker
105      Roy Harper
105      Bess Seaton Dumas
106      Pauline and Bernard White
107      The Nilles, Campbell and Leahy Families

post 21:
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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post 22:
115      Northrup Canyon and Steamboat Rock
116      Rod Hopkins
117      Dora Walton Phillips
118      Ed Klobucher
119          LaFollette Cemetery

post 23:
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

post 24:
128      Weber's "Lazy Triangle Plus" Ranch
131      The shooting of Bill Stubblefield
132      Albert and Matilda Macho
133      Mrs. John Schweighardt

post 25:
135      Hans and Matilda Lange
137      Miss Lical Park
139      Death of "Wild Goose" Bill Condon

post 26:
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:

post 27:
152   Reflections
153   The Grand Coulee Dam Area Bicentennial Association

post 28:
157   The Third Powerplant of Grand Coulee Dam

post 29:
160   The Years of Transition:  1957 - 1976

post 30:
164   The Grand Coulee Blue Rock Worm
166   From U. S. to Us
169   Bibliography
170   49 Hillside Trailer Camp

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post 31:
172   Towns:
172       Lone pine
173       Osborne

post 32:
176       Grand Coulee
177       Mayors of Grand Coulee
177       Mayors of Coulee Dam
178       Grand Coulee To Have A Birthday

post 33:
181       Elmer City

post 34:
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

post 35:
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

post 36:
201   Grand Coulee Public Library
203   Coulee Dam (Mason City) Schools
204       Edward L. Greene Memorial Field and Scholarship
205   Grand Coulee Schools

post 37:
206   Fiddle Creek School

post 38:
212   Schools of the Area

post 39:
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

post 40:
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

post 41:
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

post 42:
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

post 43:
242   Cemeteries:
242       Spring Canyon Cemetery
242       Aisle of Flags at Spring Canyon Cemetery
243       Tombstone Inscriptions in Delrio Cemetery

post 44:
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

post 45:
253   Farming:
254       Farms Threatened by Bombing Range

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post 46:
256   Memories of Coulee Country:  Bachelor in Barker Canyon - Old Man Barker
258       Buckley Springs - Si Buckley, Bachelor-Homesteader

post 47:
261       Old Ferries in this Area
263       Monument in the Sage - Thomas Douglas Stimson

post 48:
265       Plum Point History Recalled
266       Boats Chug Where Indian Drums, Chants Prevailed
267       Legendary Stones Disappear
268       Stage Stops and Old Freight Roads

post 49: 
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

post 50:
274       Glider Shadows on the Coulee Walls
275       The Slide
275       Ranching and Rodeoing Homesteader Style
277       First Lady Dolls

post 51:
277   Did You Know That

post 52:
283   Pioneers of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
283       Margaret Seaton Taschereau  (mother of C. S.)

post 53:
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}

post 54:
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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