Is that all it was, myth? perhaps Coyote's last trick.
Coyote’s Last Trick.
Finding Mines
What started as an email conversation with Bert Smith ended with me traveling down a dirt trail through a narrow canyon Southeast of Electric City. On either side of me huge granite boulders the size of mountains formed steep unpassable cliffs. I had just left Little Forrest and as I traveled down the path the... Continue Reading →
the old Soap Lake sign
Soap Lake Legend Soap Lake contains 17 minerals and an Ichthyol like oil. The only comparable water in the world is Boden Lake in Boden, Germany. Cowboys and settlers learned of the health-like qualities of the buoyant water from the indians, who for ages past sent their ailing to bathe in the great spirits "Smokiam"... Continue Reading →
Mystery of the two Osbornes
The city of Osborne sprung up with the Grand Coulee Dam just outside Electric City, where Osborne Bay sits today. The land was owned by Oscar Osborne and his wife Gladys but in the later years of his life he handed it over to his son, Thomas to manage and maintain. It was during this... Continue Reading →
Remembering Grand Coulee Dam’s fallen workers
It's a question that comes up from time to time: "If 81 men gave their life during the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, where is the memorial?" At one time there was a grand monument carved out of marble, on it a brass plaque engraved with the names of the first 46 men who... Continue Reading →
Cars of the Scenic Highway
where they are and what do they look like today.
Harvey Slocum and the Spirits of B Street
In 1920, two years after Rufus Woods and Billy Clapp's 1918 meeting in Ephrata that unveiled their plans for a record shattering Dam across the Columbia River, Prohibition ratified the Constitution making it (mostly) illegal to sell or purchase alcoholic beverages of any kind in the good old U.S. of A. Two seemingly unrelated events... Continue Reading →
Inspiration Point, Grand Coulee
What's in a name? Said so often it becomes a cliche'. But names give people, places and things their identity, even when you have the same name as someone else. Maybe if you forget the name, you forget the place, and it starts to fade away. Inspiration Point in Grand Coulee is one of... Continue Reading →
Little Virtual Museum in the Coulee 