Robert E. Ficken

Rufus Woods, the Columbia River, & the Building of Modern Washington Robert E. Ficken

Rufus Woods, for more than forty years publisher of the Wenatchee Daily World, has often been called the "High Priest of the Columbia River." No person deserves the title more. From the editorial platform of the World, Woods tirelessly promoted Wenatchee and north central Washington. For decades he pegged his brightest hopes for the region's future on a huge Columbia River dam in the isolated Grand Coulee region. Woods got his dam, but not the Wenatchee boom he desired. A lively biography of one of the Northwest's most influential publishers.