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Roll On, Columbia

ROLL ON, COLUMBIA A Historical Novel BOOK ONE To the Pacific BILL GULICK UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO

Copyright 1997 by Bill Gulick International Standard Book Number 0-87081-425-7 Published by the UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI z39.48-1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gulick, Bill, 1916 Roll on, Columbia / by Bill Gulick. p. cm.To the Pacific: bk. 1) ISBN 0-87081-425-7 (alk. paper) I. Title. II. Series: Gulick, Bill, 1916- To the Pacific: bk. 1. PS3557.U43R651997 813'.54-dc21 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Roll On, Columbia Folk song by Woody Guthrie Green Douglas firs, where the waters cut through, Down her wild mountains and canyons she flew; Canadian Northwest to the ocean so blue; It's roll on, Columbia, roll on! Roll on, Columbia, roll on! Roll on, Columbia, roll on! Your power is turning Our darkness to dawn, So roll on, Columbia, roll on! Tom Jefferson's vision would not let him rest; An empire he saw in the Pacific Northwest; Sent Lewis and Clark and they did the rest; So roll on, Columbia, roll on! Roll on, Columbia, roll on! Roll on, Columbia, roll on! Your power is turning Our darkness to dawn, So roll on, Columbia, roll on! At Bonneville now there are ships in the locks; Waters have risen and cleared all the rocks; Shiploads of plenty will steam past the docks; It's roll on, Columbia, roll on! Roll on, Columbia, roll on! Roll on, Columbia, roll on! Your power is turning Our darkness to dawn, So roll on, Columbia, roll on!

And on up the river is the Grand Coulee Dam; The mightiest thing ever built by a man, To run the great factories and water the land; It's roll on, Columbia, roll on! Roll on, Columbia, roll on! Roll on, Columbia, roll on! Your power is turning Our darkness to dawn, So roll on, Columbia, roll on! Used by permission "Roll On, Columbia" Words by Woody Guthrie Music based on "Goodnight, Irene" by Huddie Ledbetter and John A. Lomax TRO 1936, 1957, 1963 Ludlow Music, Inc., New York, New York

Page vii Author's note In 1941, the Bonneville Power Administration paid folksinger Woody Guthrie $266.66 to spend a month writing twenty-six songs in praise of the development of government water and power projects. The ballad "Roll On, Columbia" was one of the songs he composed. Used as background music to the twenty-minute documentary movie on the building of Grand Coulee Dam, it has been heard by millions of visitors to the site since that time, so has proved to be a real bargain as a musical score. Though I never met Woody Guthrie, I long have been an admirer of his songs. As I researched and wrote this book, I came to realize that we had a number of things in common. We both were raised in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl and Depression years of the 1930s. I spent two years working for a private utility that was building electric lines to serve rural Oklahoma areas in need of power, flood control, navigation benefits, and irrigation water, just as he later worked for BPA, which was doing the same thing in the Pacific Northwest. Called a "Radical" in his day, all Woody Guthrie asked of the politicians was a job for a decent rate of pay. Coming to know construction workers as I did, I found them to be the salt of the earth and the strength of a nation in peace and war, just as he proclaimed them to be in his ballads. Some fifty years ago I settled in the heart of the Columbia River watershed near its juncture with its largest tributary, the Snake. Since then, all my writings have dealt with some aspect of the past, present, and future of the two rivers. During these years, I have followed, reported on, and taken part in controversy as to what uses should be made of the waters of the legendary "River of the West."

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