Cultural Region/Pacific Northwest
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Walking my Dog, Jane
$25.00 Add to cartIn the late 1970s, workers laid a pile of gravel over the length of Alaska. This was the service road for the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, from the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free saltwat
- Author: Rozell, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 173394821X
- Language: English
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San Juan Islands Impressions
$9.95 Add to cartThe San Juan Islands of Washington state make up some of the country’s most breath-taking scenery. Carved by glaciers of long ago, the islands consist of a rugged beachfront, thousand-foot deep channe… [more below]
- Author: Gurche, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1560373822
- Language: English
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Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer
$21.99 Add to cartThe horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen’s reign of terror
As oil-boom money poured into Anchorage, Alaska the city quickly became a prime destination for the see- Author: Gilmour, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049489
- Language: English
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Sacajawea
$21.95 Add to cartIn the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Far Northwest between 1804 and 1806.
- Author: Howard, Harold P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0806115785
- Language: English
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History Volume 158
$29.95 Add to cartMore than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteenth century. This important work, the first composite
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #158
- Author: Ruby, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806121130
- Language: English
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The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
$18.99 Add to cart“Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting.”–National Geographic Adventure
The Thirtymile Fire in the North Cascade Range near the Canadian border of Washington began- Author: MacLean, John N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0805083308
- Language: English
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Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
$18.99 Add to cartAmerica’s favorite outdoor humorist is back with an outrageously fresh collection of stories. He introduces a variety of friends old and new, and takes readers to many exotic locales outdoors and indo
- Series: Holt Paperback
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805009124
- Language: English
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The Oregon Trail
$20.99 Add to cartKeen observations and a graphic style characterize the author’s remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies;… [more below]
- Series: Economy Editions
- Author: Parkman, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0486424804
- Language: English
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Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail
$24.95 Read moreFormer high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks
- Author: Waterston, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747501
- Language: English
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The Jackson County Rebellion: A Populist Uprising in Depression-Era Oregon
$29.95 Read moreThe Jackson County Rebellion explores a dramatic if little-known populist insurgency that captured national attention as it played out in rural Oregon. Jeffrey LaLande traces the rebellion’s roots bac… [more below]
- Author: Lalande, Jeffrey Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712292
- Language: English
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Pushed: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre
$18.95 Read moreA personal investigative journey into the so-called Chelan Falls Massacre of 1875.
“The particulars of the crime, Spagna’s work suggests, matter less than understanding how something awful can change- Author: Spagna, Ana Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1948814692
- Language: English
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
$18.95 Add to cartAfter the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued… [more below]
- Author: Sharfstein, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355659
- Language: English
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Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
$19.99 Read more**Winner of the 2021 Montana Book Award**
**Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona General Nonfiction Book Award**
**Finalist for the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction**
**A New York Times Edito- Author: Streep, Abe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250210690
- Language: English
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Northwest Trees
$26.95 Add to cart* Provides easy to use illustrated identification key based on the most reliable and non-technical features of each Northwest tree species.
* Features the latest knowledge on the ecology and human hi- Author: Arno, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: August 07 2007
- ISBN10: 1594850410
- Language: English
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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartTold with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle o… [more below]
- Author: Marquis, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282885
- Language: English
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Truman of St. Helens: The Man and His Mountain
$14.95 Add to cartAt 8:32am, Sunday, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington State with the explosive force of more than 20 million tons of TNT. It remains the most deadly and economically destructive volc… [more below]
- Author: Rosen, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0914019724
- Language: English
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Charles M. Russell: The Life and Legend of America’s Cowboy Artist
$21.95 Add to cartThis first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell examines the colorful life and times of Montana’s famed Cowboy Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell read thrilli
- Author: Taliaferro, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 03 2003
- ISBN10: 080613495X
- Language: English
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Idaho Impressions
$12.95 Add to cartInterspersed with the breathtaking landsacpe and nature photographs are images conveying some of Idaho’s cultural history; recreation, such as white water rafting, kayaking and skiing; and community a… [more below]
- Author: Howard, Leland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1560372974
- Language: English
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Seattleness
$24.95 Add to cart“Visually rich with infographics, deep-dive data and more than 50 narratives about what makes Seattleites tick, this beautifully illustrated [book] will delight and educate newcomers and mossbacks ali… [more below]
- Series: Urban Infographic Atlases
- Author: Hatfield, Tera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1632174774
- Language: English
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Cashup Davis: The Inspiring Life of a Secret Mentor
$18.95 Add to cartEnamored by the western frontier, British immigrant Cashup Davis, his wife Mary Ann, and nine children became one of the first white families to settle on the Palouse’s spectacular rolling hills in ea
- Author: Burnside, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163864005X
- Language: English
