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“The Dalles” as a book category centers on stories shaped by the Columbia River Gorge’s wind-carved basalt, fierce narrows, and the river town that grew at this crossroads. It gathers fiction and nonfiction that braid Indigenous presence and sovereignty, fur trade and wagon-train passages, salmon economies, railroads, dams and power, timber and orchards, and the reinventions of a working river community. The river itself often acts as a character, with motifs of bridges, portage, rapids, and windstorms anchoring narratives that range from historical epics and environmental or labor histories to coming-of-age memoirs, mysteries set against cliff and current, and lyrical travel and nature writing. Across voices—from Native authors to pioneer descendants and contemporary newcomers—recurring themes include thresholds and passage, extraction versus stewardship, small-town grit, and the resilience required to live at the edge of a powerful waterway.

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