The book is one of the few published accounts of the early years of the Columbia Basin reclamation project, which turned the dry land of east central Washington into highly productive crop land.Īnd it may be the best told of any of those, said former Idaho State Historian Keith C. That’s how Helen Lingscheit Heavirland describes the family’s struggle to wrest crops from the desert just north of Pasco, Wash., in the 1950s in her new book “Surviving the Sand.” It is published by Washington State University Press. The Lingscheit family had little money but an abundance of grit when they moved to the desert just north of Pasco in 1954 to take advantage of water flowing from the Grand Coulee Dam into Columbia Basin canals.īut at times it seemed like the Lingscheit family was watering the sand of the Columbia Basin project with sweat and tears.
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