PRIMARY SOURCES
Archives and Special Collections at Eastern Washington University
The Archives & Special Collections Department holds several types of material which may support this proposal. These include archival records and papers; published United States Documents; and maps.
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
SPC 006-0628. Hubert "Hu" Blonk Papers. Mr. Blonk started his journalism career at the newspaper in Grand Coulee, Washington, but soon moved on to the Wenatchee Daily World, where he remained until his retirement as managing editor. He covered the construction of Grand Coulee Dam for the World. His files include his own photographs and negatives, and numerous prints of government photographs documenting the construction of the dam.
SPC 972-0006. Washington Water Power Co. Records. Contains material on the issues around hydroelectric power generation in the inland northwest, including the controversy over private versus public development of these resources, and some of the public utility district elections in the region. Background material on the possibility of a dam at Grand Coulee are contained.
SPC 976-0030. John Fahey Papers. A small portion of the Fahey papers deals with his research on the Spokane tribe. Most of Mr. Fahey's papers are at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
SPC 982-0163. Edmund T. Becher Papers. Mr. Becher taught history in the Spokane Public Schools, and gathered extensive files of notes on regional history.
SPC 971-0002. Washington Brick & Lime Co. Records. Minute Books. The company manufactured bricks, terra cotta sewer pipe and architectural ornamentation at their plant at Clayton, Washington.
SPC 976-0027. H. K. Hossom Papers. Includes material gathered by Dr. Hossom on one of the public utility district elections held in eastern Washington.
SPC 980-0122. Alexander Joss Papers. Includes several photographs of wheat harvesting in the Columbia Basin in the 1930s.
SPC 988-0293. Otis W. Freeman Papers. Dr. Freeman taught geography and geology at the Cheney State Normal School / Eastern Washington College of Education (EWU). His dissertation was on the human geography of the channeled scablands, he thanks J. Harlan Bretz for his assistance in his acknowledgements. Dr. Freeman's teaching and research materials held include nearly 300 glass lantern slides, including many of the Grand Coulee area in the 1920s, before work began on Grand Coulee Dam.
SPC 998-0492. U.S. Army Fort Colville Records. A small collection of two folders of letter book pages found in one of the former post buildings after it was sold to civilian settlers.
SPC 008-0667. Dale F. Stradling Papers. Professor Stradling taught geography at Eastern Washington State College / EWU. Among his research materials are 35 mm slides of the physical geography of the upper Columbia region.
SPC 013-0711. Michael J. Denuty Papers. Mr. Denuty graduated from EWSC (EWU) with a journalism degree. His passion was railroad history, and his papers include an extensive collection of notes, documents, post cards and historic photos from the 1880s to 1930s, plus his own photographs documenting railroad development and operations in the region spanning 1964 - 2010. This collection has not been fully processed, but I can get you into the materials on the railroads in the upper Columbia region.
U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Full set of the War Department railroad survey set from the 1850s is held here. We also have some of the annual reports and bulletins of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology here, which may cover some of the tribes in the region.
The Congressional Record
Treaties related to Columbia River fishing privileges.
MAPS
Topographic maps of eastern Washington and north Idaho. Fair coverage of the region in 30 minute quadrangles, very good coverage in 15 minute quadrangles, and very good coverage with recent 7.5 minute quadrangle sheets for the region.
Some federal maps of the area from the Pacific Railroad Survey volumes are here, as are some pre WWII county maps for eastern Washington counties.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Primary Sources
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation: Upper Columbia Book of Legends, compiled by Jennifer Ferguson (prepared for the Bonneville Power Administration and the Bureau of Reclamation, 2007).
Kane, Paul. Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again (Toronto: The Radisson Society of Canada, Ltd., 1925) [Originally published in 1859].
Keun, Odette. A Foreigner Looks at the TVA (New York: Longmans, Green and Col, 1937).
Lilienthal, David E. TVA: Democracy on the March (New York: Harper and Row, 1944).
Lilienthal, David E. The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, Vol. 1, The TVA Years, 1939-1945 (New York: Harper and Row, 1964).
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (New York: Random House, 1938).
1930s Eastern Washington newspapers
Articles
Allen, Cain. "Replacing Salmon" Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol 108, 2007
Chase, Stuart. "Great Dam," Atlantic Monthly, CLXII, pp. 593-9, 1938.
Loo, T. and Stanley, M. "An Environmental History of Progress: Damming the Peace and Columbia Rivers" The Canadian Historical Review 92, 3 pp. 399-426, 2011.
Ray, Verne F. "Native Villages and Groupings of the Columbia Basin," The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 2 (April 1936):99-152.
Dissertations and Theses
Wriglesworth, Chad Duane. "Geographies of Reclamation: Writing and Water in the Columbia River Basin, 1855-2009" Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 2010.
Newspaper Articles
Leslie, Jacques. "Large Dams Just Aren't Worth the Cost," New York Times, 24 August 2014 (editorials, p. 5)
Moon, Freda. "In Search of Woody Guthrie's America," New York Times, 22 November 2013
Secondary Sources
Asthana, Vandana. "Development, Environmental Degradation and Marginalization of Women in South Asia" in Readings in Environmental Ethics: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. D.C. Srivastava (Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2005).
Barber, Katrine. Death of Celilo Falls (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005).
Billington, David P. and Jackson, Donald C., Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006).
Bohn, Fred C. and Holstine, Craig E. The People's History of Stevens County (Colville, Washington: Stevens County Historical Society, 1983).
Chance, David H. People of the Falls (Colville: Don's Printery, 1986)
Chance, David H. Sentinel of Silence: A Brief History of Fort Spokane (Pacific Northwest National Parks Association, 1981).
Cone, Joseph. A Common Fate: Endangered Salmon and People of the Pacific Northwest (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1996).
Downs, Vaughn L. The Mightiest of Them All: Memories of Grand Coulee Dam (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1993).
Galm, Jerry R., ed. An Overview and Assessment of the Cultural Resources in the Lake Roosevelt Basin of Northeastern Washington. Eastern Washington University Reports in Archaeology and History 100-83. Cheney, WA, 1994.
Galm, Jerry R. Prehistoric Trade and Exchange in the Interior Plateau of Northwestern North America. In Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America, edited by Timothy G. Baugh and Jonathan E. Ericson, pp. 275-305. (Plenum Press, 1994).
Holter, Darryl and Deverell, William. Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941 (Angel City Press, 2016).
Hunn, Eugene S. Nch'i-wana, "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989).
Jones, Nard. Still to the West (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1946)
Josephson, Paul. Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World (Washington, D.C., 2001).
Lang, William and Carriker, Robert, eds. Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999).
Martin, David. Austere Beauty: The Art of Z. Vanessa Helder (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.
Nye, David E. American Technological Sublime (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996).
Pacey, Arnold. Meaning in Technology (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2001).
Pisani, Donald J. Water and the American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
Phillips, Sarah T. This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Pinkham, Allen V. and Evans, Steve R. Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce: Strangers in the Land of Nimpiipuu (Washburn, North Dakota: The Dakota Institute, 2014).
Pinkham, Allen V. and Landeen, Dan. Salmon and His People (Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, 1999).
Pitzer, Paul. Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994).
Pursell, Carrol. American Technology (Cambridge: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001).
Ray, Verne F. Cultural Relations in the Plateau of Northwestern North America (Salinas, Calfornia: Coyote Press, 1939)>
Reyes, Lawney L. The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008).
Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985).
Tobey, Ronald C. Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
Ulrich, Roberta. Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999).
White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995).
Zeisler-Vralsted, Dorothy. Rivers, Memory and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers (New York: Berghahn, 2014):77-101.
Digital Resources (including oral histories)
The American Presidency Project. For specific papers related to the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
Center for Columbia River History. Columbia River oral histories, community histories, visual and print resources at http://www.ccrh.org
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Confederated Tribes' history, myths and realities at http://www.colvilletribes.com
Northwest Power and Conservation Council. Columbia River history with histories of first humans, treaties and Kettle Falls at https://www.nwcouncil.org/
Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects, University of Washington. Social aspects of Grand Coulee Dam, "Grand Coulee Dam: Leaving a Legacy" by Christian McClung at http://depts.washington.edu/depress/wa_new_deal.shtml
Roll on Columbia: The Documentary. University of Oregon.https://library.uoregon.edu/ec/wguthrie/development.html
Spokane Tribe of Indians. Spokane Tribe's claim to federal compensation from Grand Coulee Dam construction at http://spokanetribe.com/
Truman, Harry (1950), "Address at the Dedication of the Grand Coulee Dam," Harry S. Truman Library and Museum at http://trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/viewpapers.php?pid=749
United States Bureau of Reclamation Archives. Grand Coulee Dam films, photos and histories at http://www.usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/history/index.html
Washington State Digital Archives, Spokane Voices of the Pioneers Oral Histories, https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/500B14C41390B76461FBA104266EE268
Western Waters Digital Library. Grand Coulee Dam photographs of construction, original townsites, FDR's visit, landscape, workers and promotional materials at http://westernwaters.org
Woody Guthrie Archives. Woody Guthrie song lyrics at http://www.woodyguthrie.org/
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