Among my favorite games to play with my kids is estimating the age of enormous trees we spot in the woods, and then bestowing ...

Two warring factions try to be the first to connect a railroad from the Columbia Gorge to the booming timber town of Bend.

Alfred Downing created accurate sketches of the banks and riverbed of the Columbia River. In 1880, he created a reasonably accurate outline sketch of the Waterville Plateau. He ...

We children used to warble, "Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam | Where the deer and the antelope play | Where seldom ...