United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
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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 Read moreThe 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 Read moreAn 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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The Columbia River
$23.99 Read moreThe Columbia River is the dominant river system of the Northwest United States. It is a river of many uses–hydropower, fisheries, and irrigation–and was known by many names–Columbia’s River, the Bi… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Harrison, John a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1467107689
- Language: English
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Murder & Mayhem in the Willamette Valley
$23.99 Read moreBeneath the bucolic scenery of Oregon’s Willamette Valley lies a dark and sinister past. Beneath the bucolic scenery of Oregon’s Willamette Valley lies a dark and sinister past.
The 150-mile swath of… [more below]- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Chambers, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151742
- Language: English
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A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity: The Fight to Bring Lolita Home
$21.99 Add to cartOn August 8, 1970, the Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound were herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island by explosives, spotter planes and speedboats in a coordinated effort to capture seven young w… [more below]
- Author: Pollard, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140376
- Language: English
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Early Skiing on Snoqualmie Pass
$24.99 Add to cartRelive the exciting early days of skiing when Snoqualmie Pass was the epicenter of the sport. Ski jumping tournaments attracted world-class competitors to Cle Elum, Beaver Lake on the Summit and the M… [more below]
- Series: Sports
- Author: Lundin, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 16 2017
- ISBN10: 146713774X
- Language: English
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It’s Always Uphill from the Dock
$40.00 Add to cartHere is a look at the Puget Sound islands throughout history-the San Juan Islands, Whidbey Island, Bainbridge and Vashon Islands, and many others. Featured are the people who have come to the islands
- Author: Irish, Ann B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1941890415
- Language: English
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