How the Gorge was won

An act of nature created it. An act of Congress protected it. Three new books tell the story of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area

Why the entire world now depends on the Columbia River

On the 25th anniversary of his seminal book, A River Lost, Blaine Harden is still explaining life on the Columbia

The fraud that inspired the settling of the Pacific Northwest

Murder at the Mission, a new book by Blaine Harden, examines the Whitman Massacre and upends one of the West’s most enduring legends

The Music of Bees: Lessons from a Columbia Basin beekeeper

A new novel from Eileen Garvin examines the plight of honeybees and their keepers in the Columbia River Gorge

The Other Oregon: Book reveals Eastern Oregon as you’ve rarely seen it

Our conversation with historian Thomas Cox covers a lot of ground, including reasons the Greater Idaho movement is “nonsense” and why Samuel Boardman is still an Oregon hero