An Article Index to the

Skamania County Heritage

Published by the
Skamania County Historical Society
P.O. Box 396
Stevenson, WA. 98648

(800) 991-2338
(509) 427-8211


Volume 1

No. 1 - July 1972

Bits of History by Jim Attwell
No. 2 - October 1972   Bits of History by Polly Attwell
No. 3 - January 1973    First Skamania County Schools  
No. 4 - March 1973 Little White Salmon Vacation Memories  
Volume 2
No. 1 - June 1973 Mt. Pleasant Pioneer, Caleb John Moore  
No. 2 - October 1973 History of Stevenson Methodist Church  
No. 3 - December 1973 Parrott Family History  
No. 4 - March 1974 The Garrisons in the Cascades  
Volume 3
No. 1 - June 1974 Bits of History by Jim Attwell
No. 2 - October 1974   Stories the Tombstones Do Not Tell;
Benjamin & Mary Frazer

The Dodson Slide
 
No. 3 - December 1974 A Long Time Ago We Fished on the River

The Origin of “Skamania” is Debatable

Early Mining in Skamania County
 
No. 4 - March 1974 Through the Cascades of the Columbia River 

 We Moved to Oregon in 1985

A Trip down the Columbia in 1852

We Went Down the River, We Might Have Gone Over the Falls!
by Willis Boatman


By Marcus McMillan
Volume 4
No. 1 - June 1975              The Mountains Of Home Valley were in Norway
                        
A Frightful Accident at Deadman’s Creek took nine lives

The Wreck of the Daisy Ainsworth in ’76
 
No. 2 - September 1975      First Automobile in Skamania County and other memories

The Log Drive on the White Salmon River in 1905
 
No. 3 - November 1975 St. Martin’s Hot Mineral Springs  
No. 4 - March 1976           The Gasoline Power Boat Comes to the Cascades of the Columbia

Stories the Tombstones Do Not Tell (John Bull)

Cuttings from Skamania County History
 
Volume 5
No. 1 - June 1976
Beacon Rock in the Gorge of the Columbia River

Climb Most Hazardous!

Beacon Rock: An Oregon State Park?
 
No. 2 - October 1976
Fact & Folklore in Fabric

Skamania County History told by the Seamstresses of the….
 
No. 3 - December 1976

Remember the Winter the Columbia River Froze?

The Winter of 1861-62,
Five Men Drowned Crossing the Columbia River

A Skamania Girlhood

by Captain Henry C. Coe
by Will Sams
by Esther Paulsen
No. 4 - March 1977 Mt. St. Helens, named by George Vancouver in 1792

Saint Helens Is a Singularly Perfidious Peak

We Climbed Mount Saint Helens in 1906
A Mountain Trip in 1865
 
Volume 6
No. 1 - June 1977 Frank Knapp 1883 - 1971  
No. 2 - October 1977 The Mystery of the Gravesite is Solved, Thomas McNatt  
No. 3 - December 1977 Mining in Western Skamania County

Early History of the Grange
 
No. 4 - March 1978 Phillip Doumitt Story, Part 1  
Volume 7
No. 1 - June 1978 Wood Scows Sailed the Columbia River 1870-1910  
No. 2 - September 1978 The Way I Remember It…  
No. 3 - December 1978 Early Settlers in Skamania County were from the Sandwich Island  
No. 4 - March 1979 Lewis and Clark in Skamania County 1805-06  
Volume 8
No. 1 - June 1979 Lewis and Clark in Skamania County 1805-06  
No. 2 - October 1979 Phillip Doumitt Story, Part 2  
No. 3 - December 1979 Up the Columbia to the Cascades and Beyond, Transportation 1850-1854  
No. 4 - March 1980 Skamania County Courthouse, 1945-49  
Volume 9
No. 1 - June 1980 Memories of the Store at Mt. Pleasant, 1921-26  
No. 2 - October 1980 Butler’s Landing on the Columbia

For a Courthouse (A Petition)
 
No. 3 - December 1980             Jake & John Franz

Mail Carrying in Skamania County in 1902

1901 Students

Woodward Hot Springs

Skamania County Paradise
 
No. 4 - March 1981                 W.A. and Harriet Chandler Woodruff of Mt. Pleasant  
Volume 10
No. 1 - June 1981 My Family Came to Stevenson in 1906 by Ruth States Knapp
No. 2 -  October 1981  The Fort Rains Rifle by John E. Boys
No. 3 - December 1981 Stories the Tombstones Do Not Tell: Phillip Samuel Corwine Wills  
No. 4 - March 1982 A Search for McClellans’s Trail Across Skamania County 1853, Part 1  
Volume 11
No. 1 - June 1982 A Search for McClellan’s Trail Across Skamania County 1853, Part 2  
No. 2 - September 1982 A Search for McClellan’s Trail Across Skamania County 1853, Part 3  
No. 3 - December 1982 A Search for McClellan’s Trail Across Skamania County 1853, Part 4  
No. 4 - March 1983 Beaver: The First Steamboat on the Columbia, by Anna E. Reynolds
Volume 12
No. 1 - June 1983 Metzgers, Father and Son, Spanned 100 Years of Carson History  
Volume 13
No. 2 - September 1983

One Hundred Years of Rail Transportation Down the…

The Skamania County Segment of The Oregon Trail

 
No. 3 - December 1983 The Carson, Washington Lumber Flume, by Ivan Donaldson
No. 4 - March 1984 The Skaar Spring by Ivan Donaldson
Volume 14
No. 1 - June 1984 Carson-Wind River Valley Water Supply  
No. 2 - September 1984 The St. Helens Mining District: A Condensed History  
No. 3 - December 1984 History of the Wind River Lumber Company…,
Part 1
 
No. 4 - March 1985 History of the Wind River Lumber Company…,
Part 2
 
Volume 15
No. 1 - June 1985 A History of Carson by Elsie Bloomquist
No. 2 - September 1985 Charley Smith, Riverman  
No. 3 - December 1985 Phoebe Yeo Remembers  
No. 4 - March 1986 Early Sawmills near Stevenson by Jim Attwell
Volume 16
No. 1 - June 1986 Reminiscences of the Cayuse War by Amos Underwood
No. 2 - September 1989 The Enigma of the Phoenix Button, Part 1 by Emory Strong,

No. 3 - December 1986           

The Enigma of the Phoenix Button,
Part 2

California Condor
by Emory Strong

by Roy Craft
No. 4 - Spring 1987 The Stories Behind The 1989 Centennial Quilt  
Volume 16
No. 1 - June 1987 Underwood by Keith McCoy
No. 2 - September 1987 Ryan-Allen Lumber Co., Stevenson 1922-1932,
Part 1
 
No. 3 - December 1987 Ryan-Allen Lumber Co., Stevenson 1922-1932,
Part 2
 
No. 4 - March 1988 Indian Mary by Ida Williams Altringer
Volume 17
No. 1 - June 1988 Program/Report of Historical Committee of County Survey…  
No. 2 - September 1988 Skamania County Early History, Part 1  
No. 3 - December 1988 Skamania County Early History, Part 2  
No. 4 - March 1989 Wilderness Exile: Democrats Can’t Get the Best of Ole Peterson, Part 1  
Volume 18
No. 1 - June 1989 Wilderness Exile: Democrats Can’t Get the Best of Ole Peterson, Part 2  
No. 2 - September 1989 Historical Notes From a Home Valley Homestead, Part 1  
No. 3 - December 1989 Historical Notes From a Home Valley Homestead, Part 2  
No. 4 - March 1990 The Life story of Herbert Allyn Miller, Part 1  
Volume 19
No. 1 - June 1990 The Life story of Herbert Allyn Miller, Part 2  
No. 2 - September 1990 The Life story of Herbert Allyn Miller, Part 3  
No. 3 - December 1990 The Life story of Herbert Allyn Miller, Part 4  
No. 4 - March 1991 The Life story of Herbert Allyn Miller, Part 5  
Volume 20
No. 1 - June 1991 The Life story of Herbert Allyn Miller, Part 6  
No. 2 - December 1992 Memories of Home Valley, Part 1  
No. 3 - March 1993 Memories of Home Valley, Part 2  
No. 4 - June 1993 History of Thomas Monaghan and Margaret Connally  
Volume 21
No. 1 - September 1993 Wishram: A Rail Town  
     
     
This Index was created by Jeffrey L. Elmer in September 2002

Photocopies of some or all of these Newsletters can be obtained from the following locations:
Contact the location for copy costs and availability.

   
Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, Stevenson, WA.                                          (has a complete set)
Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, Stevenson, WA.                                          (has a complete set)
Stevenson Community Library, Stevenson, WA.                                              (has a complete set)
Ft. Vancouver Library System, Mill Plain Branch, Vancouver, WA.                  (has a complete set)
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR                                                          (has a complete set)
Clark County Genealogical Society, Vancouver, WA.                                           (has only a partial set)
Washington State Library, Tumwater, WA.                                                           (has only a partial set)

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