Frederic Homer Balch
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Frederic Homer Balch (1861 - 1891) was an American author from the Pacific Northwest, best known for The Bridge of the Gods: A Romance of Indian Oregon, the only work published during his brief life.
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Frederic Homer Balch (1861 - 1891) was an American author from the Pacific Northwest, best known for The Bridge of the Gods: A Romance of Indian Oregon, the only work published during his brief life. Balch was the first Northwest writer to make Native Americans major characters and the first to celebrate the Northwest landscape, its primal forest, great rivers, and volcanic mountains.
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deceased
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Lived 1861 to 1891 · aged 29
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