Monday's postcard, and how to find and experience the 'Bretz' hills
May 1, 2023
Blooming Camas in a scabland bog near the Spokane/Lincoln County line
Teardrop Hills
A poem of geography, with the signature of a catastrophe
A century ago the geologist J Harlen Bretz—then on the faculty of the University of Chicago—was holed up in Spokane with a contingent of his students. His purpose, with their help, was to map what Bretz, in a late 19…
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