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  • Tacoma's Salmon Beach

    by Roger Cushman Edwards ...
    Series series Images of America
    Perched on the shores of the Tacoma Narrows, the community of Salmon Beach overlooks the spectacular Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Built as a series of fishing shacks on the beach, Salmon Beach took on a more permanentflavor after Henry O. Foss towed his two-story boathouse from the city to the tidelands south of Point Defiance. After electricity was introduced in 1934, more comfortable cottages were ... Read more

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  • The Plains Indian Wars: Indian War of 1864, War-Path & Bivouac, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka Or Wyoming Opened, & Northwest Indian Fights & Fighters" (4 Volumes In 1)

    by Eugene F. Ware, John F. Finerty, Henry B. Carrington, Margaret I. Carrington, Cyrus T. Brady ...
    "The Plains Indian Wars: Indian War of 1864, War-Path & Bivouac, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, & Northwest Indian Fights & Fighters" (4 Volumes In 1) by Eugene Ware, John Finerty, Henry Carrington, and Cyrus Brady is an inside, eyewitness look at the Indian Wars that raged on the Plains from 1865-80. The 4 books show these bloody struggles from point of view of both the white man & Indian culture & tradition.Book ... Read more

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  • Black Spokane

    The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest

    by Dwayne A. Mack ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bretz's Flood

    The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood

    by John Soennichsen ...
    The masterful story of the scientific rebel who dared to think outside the box—and changed the course of geologic historyThe land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts—in geologic terms, it is a wholly unique place on the earth. In the 1920s, legendary geologist and professor J Harlen Bretz peered back in time to answer the riddle of how this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Landscapes of Promise

    The Oregon Story, 1800-1940

    by William G. Robbins ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning.Robbins ... Read more

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  • Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook: Portland Edition, Volume 1

    by Tiffany Harelik ...
    Portland's celebrated food cart chefs create artisan meals by combining world influences and the finest local ingredients. Tiffany Harelik brings her Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook series to Oregon to capture the histories and recipes of these creative and passionate entrepreneurs. Meet the local chefs, explore the food cart scene and sample from a savory array of gourmet dishes. From Alligator and ... Read more

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  • Seattle's 1962 World's Fair

    by Bill Cotter ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    In the late 1950s, Seattle's civic and business leaders were worried about the city losing its dominant position as a trading partner with the lucrative Pacific Rim nations. Interested in showing off all that the city and state had to offer in the hope of gaining new business, their unlikely solution was a world's fair, the first to be held in the United States since 1940. Other cities across the ... Read more

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  • Seattle's Music Venues

    by Jolie Dawn Bergman ...
    The varieties of music venues in Seattle have been as vital and vibrant for the people of the Emerald City as the genres that have graced these famous halls. These houses of music have nurtured the entertainment legacy of this region. Each holds a beautiful, haunting, and unique history that has helped shape the Pacific Northwest�s musical culture, which, in turn, has helped shape our community. ... Read more

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  • Walking Washington's History

    Ten Cities

    by Judy Bentley ...
    Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities, a follow-up to Judy Bentley’s bestselling Hiking Washington’s History, showcases the state’s engaging urban history through guided walks in ten major cities. Using narrated walks, maps, and historic photographs, Bentley reveals each city’s aspirations.She begins in Vancouver, established as a fur trade emporium on a plain above the Columbia River, and ends ... Read more

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  • Haunted Snohomish

    by Deborah Cuyle ...
    Series series Haunted America
    Take a paranormal tour of this Pacific Northwest town . . . photos included!Historic Snohomish has enough ghostly tales for a town twice its size. A policeman named Henry, who died on the floor of the Oxford Tavern, haunts the popular watering hole alongside nearly twenty other impish spirits. Incarcerated for everything from public drunkenness to coldblooded murder, former inmates still crowd the ... Read more

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  • The Perilous West

    Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail

    by Larry E. Morris ...
    Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark’s safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn – Ramsay Crooks ... 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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