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# Submerged Stories, Breaching History
- URL: https://www.adamsowards.net/submerged-stories-breaching-history/
- Published: 2022-07-01T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T16:21:56.000Z
- Author: Adam M. Sowards
- Tags: essays, essay, publication, wild roof journal, 2022, ghost landscapes, snake river, nez perce, history, wawawai

"Submerged Stories, Breaching History," *Wild Roof Journal*, Issue 15 (July 2022): 15-22\. 

> All places contain ghost landscapes when you see them as a historian does, which is to say, how I do. Buried beneath today’s scenic vista lies all of the yesterdays, layered one upon another, accreting with passing memories and moments. I obsess over this interplay of place and time. It is where I live, where I think; it is how I chart the world. And I wonder how anyone could plot their universe otherwise. Even if it does mean being constantly confronted by loss.

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