United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
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Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
$29.95 Read moreFrom the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle’s urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Asaka, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0295750677
- Language: English
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Newberg
$24.99 Read moreNewberg has experienced significant growth in the last century, with a notable uptick in the 1990s. This growth can largely be attributed to increased employment and education opportunities. George Fo… [more below]
- Series: Past and Present
- Author: Mansfield, Britta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160679
- Language: English
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The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish
$19.95 Read moreWith bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se’alth and his allies fished and lived in
- Author: Cummings, Bj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0295750987
- Language: English
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Washington’s Fisher Scones: An Iconic Northwest Treat Since 1911
$23.99 Read moreA Delicious Pacific Northwest Legacy.
Fisher Scones, a Pacific Northwest tradition, were introduced at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. This sweet treat, slathered with butter and… [more below]- Series: American Palate
- Author: Erickson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 146715301X
- Language: English
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The Rise of Washington State University Football: The Erickson & Price Years
$24.99 Read moreThe rise of the crimson and gray.
In 1987, Dennis Erickson arrived in Pullman, Washington to take over the struggling Washington State University football program. Under his leadership, the Cougars e… [more below]- Series: Sports
- Author: Donahue, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152919
- Language: English
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Battle for the Columbia River: The Rise of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company
$23.99 Read moreA war over riches on the Columbia River.
While the Civil War raged, a group of captains, merchants, bankers and gamblers in the Pacific Northwest formed the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. The first… [more below]- Series: Transportation
- Author: Ostler, Mychal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154083
- Language: English
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Owyhee Trails: The West’s Forgotten Corner [With Battery]
$14.95 Add to cartThe high desert of the Owyhee Mountain region has a history rich in native conflicts, settlers braving its harsh deserts, miners searching for fortune in its rugged mountains and boomtowns springing u… [more below]
- Author: Hanley, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: December 01 1973
- ISBN10: 0870042815
- Language: English
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Logging Oregon’s Coastal Forests
$24.99 Read moreFor the first 60 years of the 20th century, logging dominated the physical, economic, and social landscape of the Oregon coast. Millions of trees fell to axes and saws. Millions of dollars bought land… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Beach, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160474
- Language: English
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Exploring Maritime Washington: A History and Guide
$23.99 Add to cartAn authoritative guide to Washington’s nautical heritage.
Discover the popular destinations and hidden gems along Washington’s coastline, from the Mukilteo Lighthouse to the Wedding Rocks petroglyphs… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Ebel, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467150576
- Language: English
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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway
$18.00 Add to cartA vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history–and present—of one of the most notorious stretches of water in… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163378
- Language: English
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Haunted Puget Sound
$21.99 Read moreThe Puget Sound region is known for its idyllic scenery–and for harboring the paranormal.
From the spirits of frontiersmen and adventurers to specters of soldiers and sailors, chilling tales abound…. [more below]- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1467157848
- Language: English
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Whidbey Island: Reflections on People & the Land
$31.99 Add to cartFor generations, Whidbey Island’s vivid beauty has made it a home for those drawn in by a rural landscape and thriving communities. Whether native tribes, pioneers, vacationers or retirees, all have e… [more below]
- Author: Guss, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 10 2014
- ISBN10: 1540209334
- Language: English
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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
$19.95 Add to cartAs more and more pioneers braved the harsh, unforgiving conditions of moving West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific N… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Jan Mackell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1493038095
- Language: English
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Oregon Coast Highway
$24.99 Add to cartBy the time the final links in the Oregon Coast Highway were made in 1936, the highway stretched 394 miles from Astoria to the border of California. It had taken 12 years to complete the construction … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Wilt, Laura E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1467103373
- Language: English
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Oregon Search & Rescue: Answering the Call
$24.99 Read moreOregon’s long tradition of volunteer search and rescue dates back to the territorial days, when Good Samaritans and mountain men came to aid those in need. On the coast, surfmen of the U.S. Life-Savin
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Voelz, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 146715525X
- Language: English
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Timber: Toil and Trouble in the Big Woods
$14.99 Read moreHas anyone today any conception of the grandeur, the extent, the million board feet a day production…the entire meaning of the forests of the Pacific Northwest-the “Big Woods”? The photographs alone… [more below]
- Author: Andrews, Ralph W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: January 20 1997
- ISBN10: 0887400361
- Language: English
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On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author whose beloved books inspired the hit television show, The Deadliest Catch, a thrilling, true adventure tale in the Alaskan seas.
In 2004, during a brutal storm, a Malaysian c- Author: Walker, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0312604599
- Language: English
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Point Roberts Backstory
$34.95 Add to cart- Author: Swenson, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 598
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0692931686
- Language: English
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Wicked Portland:: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town
$21.99 Add to cartTucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a combination rough-and-… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: John, Finn J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1609495780
- Language: English
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Fire Lookouts of Oregon
$24.99 Add to cartThe first lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires. As the importance of fire prevention grew, a lookout construction boom result… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Hill, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1467134864
- Language: English
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