These maps illustrate the two assumptions underlying the Columbia Basin Project. The first illustrates what local boosters viewed as the benefit to the region within a seven-mile radius surrounding the Grand Coulee Dam. The second birdseye view encompasses a larger region from Spokane to the Pacific Ocean, and from Everett to Portland. (Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries. Immediate vicinity map courtesy of the Bureau of Reclamation.)

Return to Lesson nineteen.