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Show 4541 Freeman- D 2560 the river, and a voyage through the Alamo river, which takes the drainage of the Imperial Valley to Salton Sea, two hundred feet below see level. Q Your book on the Roof of the Rockies, what did that deal with? A That was first published as an article for the National Geographic, under the title of Mother of Rivers, The Columbia ice fields to the roof of the Rockies is the only place in the world in which three major rivers head, leaving to three major oceans, the Columbia to the Pacific, the Athabasca to the Arctic, the Saskatchewan Lake Winnepe, Hudson Bay, and the Atlantic. Q Did that deal with historical matters of the west? A Only slightly, where I mentioned possibly the survey of the Canadian Pacific- no, I should say not. Q The Nearing North, what did that deal with? A That was the book I just mentioned, my study of the Canadian rivers in relation to earlier history and present-day development. Q Waterways of Western Wanderings. A That was the one I mentioned in connection with the Ohio and the Missouri and the Mississippi, the way they had figured in the earlier explorations and the later commercial development. |