Washington State University Press 2005

Awards

American Library Association, Best of the Best University Publications of 2005

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Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America

Purple Flat Top: In Pursuit of a Place

Singing Grass, Burning Sage: Discovering Washington's Shrub-Steppe

Visible Bones: Journey Across Time in the Columbian River Country

The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest

David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work

Ancient Places

The Dreamer and the Doctor

Experience the sweep of human and natural history on the Columbia Plateau through the eyes of intrepid explorer and cartographer David Thompson, who established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada, systematically surveyed the entire 1,250-mile course of the Columbia River, and subsequently distilled his mathematical notations into the first accurate maps of a vast portion of the northwest quadrant of North America.