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Upon Further Review: Race and the Outdoors

True tales from the most interesting place on earth.

Upon Further Review: Race and the Outdoors

Season 10 Episode 4 | 6m 34s | CC

Racism in the early outdoors movement — and among early 20th-century progressives — left a long-lasting imprint on Northwest wilderness recreation. Out & Back host Alison Mariella Désir and Mossback’s Northwest host Knute Berger look at the legacy of that phenomenon in light of new information after the airing of an episode that added to the story of an outdoor advocate.

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The Columbia: Beginning and End

Locating the Columbia River’s remote origins in British Columbia proved difficult.

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Ice, Fire and Those Dam Floods

Lava, glaciers and epic floods reshaped the Columbia River before the Grand Coulee Dam.

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Horseless Carriages, Ho!

Pioneers navigated the Northwest wilderness with a newfangled invention: the automobile.

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