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COLUMBIA: Summer 2003; Vol. 16, No. 2

Table of Contents

From the Editor   2

History Commentary   3
Opposite ends of the pole: two geographic histories of Washington's trees.
By Jana Dean

Shaken but Still Standing    6
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Washington's Legislative Building has weathered three major earthquakes.
By Darlene A. Croteau

Atoms for Peace    11
How WSU's Nuclear Radiation Center came into being and why it still exists.
By Darlene A. Croteau

1001 Curious Things    17
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For over a century, Ye Old Curiosity Shop has offered visitors a glimpse of things rare, weird, and wonderful.
By Kate Duncan

Hunting for Empire    24
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As hunters and "men of science," Lewis and Clark laid claim to America.
By Daniel Herman

History Album    31
Car camping—the great escape.

Boeing's Flying Boat    32
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Tracing the fate of the B314, Pan Am's largest and last Clipper.
By Kenneth L. Calkins

From the Collection    37
Home on the range.

The Kennedy Train    38
The trials and tribulations of leading a wagon train over the Oregon Trail.
By Everell Cummins

Columbia Reviews    44

Correspondence & Additional Reading   46

To Our Members    47


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