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COLUMBIA: Summer 1998; Vol. 12, No. 2

Table of Contents

From the Editor   2

History Commentary:    3
Thoughts on a boxcar graffiti artist.
By Herb Blisard

Oregon's Carlisle:   6
A history of Chemawa Indian School.
By Cary C. Collins

A Century of Services for the Mentally Ill:   11
Washington's state-run psychiatric programs: an overview.
By William R. Conte

History Album:   18
Red Cross to the rescue.

Oysterville Remembered:   19
Memories of growing up on the tide flats of Shoalwater Bay.
By Willard R. Espy

Ezra Meeker's Quest for Klondike Gold:   24
Puget Sound's pioneer "hop king" turned gold digger.
By Howard Clifford

From the Collection:   30
The engine that could.

Vic Meyers:   31 Not your run-of-the-mill candidate for mayor.
By Patrick Diviney

Clallam County's Spruce Railroad:   36
A monument to the war effort made obsolete by the armistice.
By Mary L. Stough

Yakima Canutt:   38
The cowboy way . . . led this Colfax cowboy to Hollywood.
By Michael Allen

Correspondence:   44

Additional Reading:   45

Columbia Reviews:   46
Recent books of interest in Northwest history.
Edited by Robert C. Carriker

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