The tugboat Lincoln and its four barges full of wheat approach The Bridge of the Gods on the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington in early August.
September 26, 2022
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A journey down the Snake and Columbia
PORTLAND, Ore. — In 1976, Herschel Slavens, then nearly 80, sat down to write about his life, including the time he found himself nearly penniless and looking for work in the early 1920s. “We didn’t have hardly any money so we stopped in Kennewick, Washington, and I got a job working for my cousin … who had a trucking company hauling wheat from a field to a warehouse on the Columbia River,” Slavens wrote in an unpublished memoir he shared with members of his family.