The latest issue of COLUMBIA Magazine- Spring 2012

Table of Contents

From the Director, page 2
Introductions
By Jennifer Kilmer

History Commentary, page 3
A young Washingtonian's introduction to the civil rights movement.
By Robert Keller

Before SIFF, page 5
The dawn of film culture in Seattle and the Puget Sound region.
By Jeff Katz

History Album, page 9
Ella Shepard Bush.

David Douglas, page 10
An early 19th–century naturalist whose insights and observations about the Pacific Northwest still carry weight today.
By Jack Nisbet

Image Collections Online, page 14
Let's Play Ball!

Nest of Dangers, page 15
Captain Edward Belcher's 1839 expedition to chart the depths at the mouth of the Columbia River.
By Mike Rees

Let the Law Takes Its Course, page 20
In 1891 Walla Walla was a "modern" town with a Wild West hankering for justice.
By Terrell D. Gottschall

Columbia Reviews, page 28

Retrospective Reviews, page 30
Cogawea, the Half-Blood by Mourning Dove.
By Peter Donahue

Additional Reading, page 31

From the Collection, page 32

Remembering the Titanic.

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