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  • Influential Women of Spokane

    Building a Fair City

    by Nancy Driscol Engle ...
    While known as the home of Father's Day, Spokane benefited from its share of trailblazing women. In 1886, Mother Joseph, a pioneering architect, constructed the first Sacred Heart Hospital. After fire destroyed thirty-six blocks in 1889, Anna Stratton Browne and her friends raised $10,000 to build a home for needy children that operated for six decades. And in early 1908, May Hutton became ... Read more

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  • All God's Children

    by Rene Denfeld ...
    James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group -- they called themselves a "family" -- was arrested for a string of violent murders.While Nelson sat in prison, the society he had helped form grew into a national phenomenon. Street families spread to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Sources of the River, 2nd Edition

    The Artwork of Ray Troll

    by Ray Troll ...
    In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. ... Read more

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  • Looking for Betty MacDonald

    The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I

    by Paula Becker ...
    Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Bootleggers and Borders

    The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-U.S. Borderland

    by Stephen T. Moore ...
    Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920—ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition—U.S. tourists and dollars promptly headed north and Canadian liquor went south. Despite repeated efforts, Americans were unable ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Murder in Linn County, Oregon

    The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings

    by Cory Frye ...
    This true crime account of a Prohibition liquor raid gone wrong illuminates "a dark and violent stretch in Linn County history" ( Corvallis Gazette-Times).On June 21, 1922, Linn County sheriff Charles Kendall and Reverend Roy Healy drove out to the town of Plainview to arrest a moonshining farmer named Dave West. By the end of the day, all three men were dead. First responders found Sheriff ... Read more

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  • Hidden History of Civil War Oregon

    by Randol B. Fletcher ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Many Oregonians think of the Civil War as a faraway event or something that happens when the Ducks and the Beavers tangle. Few know that the state raised two Union regiments or that more than ten thousand Union and Confederate veterans made their way to Oregon after the war. In fact, the Beaver State has impressive Civil War ties, including the battle death of Senator Edward Baker, the Long Tom ... Read more

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  • Around Florence

    by Judy Fleagle ...
    Series series Images of America
    Florence, located midway on the Oregon coast, has North America�s largest stretch of dunes to the south and the most photographed headlands on the Pacific coast to the north. Although Florence is on the coast, it is a river town located on a bend of the Siuslaw River. Before the railroad arrived in 1916, the town was cut off and dependent upon ocean-going ships. The Siuslaw did not make it easy ... Read more

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  • Before Seattle Rocked

    A City and Its Music

    by Kurt E Armbruster ...
    Seattle is a music town with rich, deep roots that have influenced the culture and identity of its civic life for decades. In a society that appreciates music but is ambivalent toward the profession of making it, the importance and contribution of Seattle's musicians have been routinely overlooked in historical accounts of the city. Kurt Armbruster fills that gap in this far-reaching and ... Read more

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  • Remembering the Modoc War

    Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence

    by Boyd Cothran ...
    On October 3, 1873, the U.S. Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon’s Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only U.S. Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the end of the Modoc War of 1872–73. But as Boyd Cothran demonstrates, the conflict’s close marked the beginning of a new struggle over the memory of ... Read more

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  • Cannon Beach

    by Deborah Cuyle ...
    Series series Images of America
    Cannon Beach is a small town nestled off Highway 101 along the Oregon coast. It has been called one of the "World's 100 Most Beautiful Places" by National Geographic and one of "The 100 Best Art Towns in America" by author John Villani. Located 80 miles west of Portland and 25 miles south of Astoria, the town is surrounded by the Oregon Coast Range, ocean beaches, and rivers. Only four miles in ... Read more

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  • South Tacoma

    by Darlyne Reiter ...
    Series series Images of America
    Nestled snuggly against Lakewood on the southern side of Tacoma, South Tacoma is a vibrant neighborhood comprised of old and new. What was once a prairie where elk and deer roamed was first called Excelsior, later renamed Edison, and finally became known as South Tacoma in 1895. Beginning in the mid-1800s, the area was comprised of cemeteries used to bury Tacoma�s deceased, but in 1890, Northern ... Read more

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