Ride in a bouncing stagecoach as it rattles over the broken terrain, up steep and slippery slopes, and down twisting ravines across Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, and into the staterooms and on the open-air decks of the thrashing sidewheelers and sternwheelers of the Columbia and Missouri Rivers. (408pp. index. illus. hardcover with dust jacket. Univ. of Washington Press, 2000.)