Copyright ©2003 by Jack Nisbet
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Cover design: Bob Suh
Interior design and composition: Stewart A. Williams
Cover map: David Thompson. “Map of North America from 84° West,” 1804. Map courtesy of
    The National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.
Cover illustration: John Kirk. Ornithology of the United States of North America. Plate 1. 1839,
    “California Vulture.” Illustration courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Ewell Sale
    Stewart Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
All interior illustrations by Marjorie C. Leggitt except for:
this page: “Head of a Vulture” from the Journal of Meriwether Lewis, February 17, 1806, Codex J. p. 80.
Production editor: Heidi A. Schuessler
Copy editor: Don Graydon

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Nisbet, Jack, 1949—
       Visible bones : journeys across time in the Columbia River country / Jack Nisbet.
    p. cm.
ISBN 1-57061-376-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 10: 1-57061-524-1 / ISBN 13: 978-1-57061-524-5 (paperback)
eBook ISBN: 978-1-57061-953-3
Columbia River Valley—Description and travel. 2. Columbia River Valley—History.. 3. Columbia
River Valley—Antiquities. 4. Natural History—Columbia River Valley. 5. Fossils—Columbia River
Valley. I. Title.

F853.N57 2003
979.7—dc21

2003045609

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