Anecdotes, biographies, observations, stories, and general information by the author from his time as gate tender to the Federal Irrigation Reservoir at Bumping Lake in the North Cascades.
Copyright 1965 by Jean E. Boyd.
Printed in the United States of America by Franklin Press, Inc., Yakima, Washington.
If you like local history you'll love this book. Friendship with William Douglas and Mr. Fife; stories of Goose Prairie and Bumping Lake; snow shoe and cross country ski trips into Naches in the dead of winter for supplies; description of local animals and birds. Nelson has a winsome writing style and by the end you feel like you are friends with all the characters of our own Yakima Valley history.