Washington State University Press
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Chasing Wildlife Secrets: A Biologist’s Journey
$29.95 Add to cartProfessional wildlife biologist Scott McCorquodale observed the natural world from a unique and intimate perspective. His compelling, dramatic, and detailed accounts describe forty years of research o
- Author: Scott McCorquodale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0874224365
- Language: English
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Seattle’s Streetcar Era: An Illustrated History, 1884-1941
$40.00 Read moreSeattle’s population was growing rapidly during the 1880s, but steep hills and shorelines impeded residential development, pushing expansion northward and creating a long, narrow corridor ideal for a
- Author: Bergman, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224071
- Language: English
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Man of Treacherous Charm: Territorial Justice Edmund C. Fitzhugh
$32.95 Read moreIn 1857, coal mine manager Edmund C. Fitzhugh killed a drunken trespasser in his garden. Though Fitzhugh was under indictment for murder and only marginally qualified for the position, U.S. president
- Author: Wellman, Candace A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0874224225
- Language: English
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Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles
$24.95 Read moreCaptured from Great Depression-era Seattle newspapers, this narrative history of the city’s business, labor, and political life traces a turbulent decade that scarred a generation and defined years of
- Author: Ramsey, Bruce A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: January 31 2025
- ISBN10: 0874224322
- Language: English
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Becoming Walla Walla: The Transformation of Cayuse Country, 1805-1879
$27.95 Add to cartThe first Euro-Americans to trek through the verdant Walla Walla Valley were uniformly impressed with its prospects for colonization. The Cayuse remained the valley’s primary inhabitants until diverse
- Author: Crockett, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224330
- Language: English
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Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology
$21.95 Read moreEssential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct volume. This landmark collection features essays by note
- Author: Stratton, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 087422277X
- Language: English
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Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest Volga Germans (Revised, Expanded)
$24.95 Read moreHardship to Homeland recounts Volga Germans’ unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to Russia and across the Atlantic. Burdened by war and debt, life was extremely difficult for impoverish
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223628
- Language: English
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An Eye for Injustice: Robert C. Sims and Minidoka
$21.95 Read moreAs wartime hysteria mounted following the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, and the U.S. government began forcibly relocating all West
- Author: Stacy, Susan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0874223768
- Language: English
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You Have Been Randomly Selected: A Life Dedicated to Turning Research Findings Into Practical Applications
$34.95 Read moreSome scholars label the sample survey–the idea that small, randomly selected, well-designed samples can provide accurate estimates of large population attributes–as the most important social science
- Author: Dillman, Don A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224306
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wonder: An Ecologist’s View of Wild Alaska
$24.95 Read moreThe grizzly paused in knee-deep water, staring straight at the man behind the camera. Abruptly he bolted, racing full tilt toward Thomas Bancroft, his eyes glued to the photographer’s face. The bear k
- Author: Bancroft, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224314
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wonder: An Ecologist’s View of Wild Alaska
$40.00 Read moreThe grizzly paused in knee-deep water, staring straight at the man behind the camera. Abruptly he bolted, racing full tilt toward Thomas Bancroft, his eyes glued to the photographer’s face. The bear k
- Author: Bancroft, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224357
- Language: English
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Winnetou
$19.95 Read moreKarl May’s German-language novel of the American West has been a perennial favorite in Europe since its release in 1892. The story of the German-born frontiersman Old Shatterhand and his Apache compan
- Author: May, Karl F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 087422179X
- Language: English
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Remote Wonders: An Explorer’s Guide to Southeast Oregon
$19.95 Read moreAt first glance the landscape looks desolate–a barren realm of basalt rims, high cold deserts, dry lakes, and vast expanses of grass and sage. In fact, it is a place where petite flowers bloom on roc
- Author: Adams, Melvin R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: October 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0874223326
- Language: English
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Wheat Country Railroad: The Northern Pacific’s Spokane & Palouse and Competitors
$50.00 Read moreRailroad development and competition played a critical role in eastern Washington and northwest Idaho’s agricultural and population growth. Sweeping opportunity lured transportation moguls into the fe
- Author: Beach, Philip F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 087422361X
- Language: English
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Not as Briefed: From the Doolittle Raid to a German Stalag
$31.95 Read moreFrom Tokyo to Berlin, WSU art graduate Ross Greening painted and wrote a one-of-kind record of action in WWII. Entering combat in April 1942, he piloted a B-25 in the Doolittle bombing raid on Japan a
- Author: Greening, Colonel C. Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0874222591
- Language: English
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Captain Cook’s Final Voyage: The Untold Story from the Journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts
$34.95 Read moreMaritime historian and researcher James K. Barnett transcribed two extraordinary, little-known journals from Captain James Cook’s third exploratory voyage. They offer remarkable eyewitness accounts at
- Author: Barnett, James K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223571
- Language: English
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The Structure of Twana Culture: With Comparative Notes on the Structure of Yurok Culture
$18.75 Read moreThis remarkable account of Washington’s Twana Indians contains the most complete body of information compiled on any Native American group in the southern coast Salish region. The Structure of Twana C
- Series: Washington State University Press Reprint
- Author: Elmendorf, William W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 23 1992
- ISBN10: 0874220874
- Language: English
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Wired for Success: The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, 1892-1985
$31.95 Read moreThis lavishly illustrated story of technology, people, and commerce describes the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway’s hauling of vast amounts of copper ore from Butte Hill, Montana, westward to smelte
- Author: Mutschler, Charles V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0874222524
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: The Spirit of the CCC
$19.95 Read moreOn March 21, 1933, with the nation in darkest despair because of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in forestry, th
- Author: Hill, Edwin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 07 1990
- ISBN10: 0874220734
- Language: English
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Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier
$19.95 Read moreAt the remarkable age of 65, Nimrod O’Kelly–loner, former blacksmith–made the arduous trek from Missouri on the Oregon Trail in 1845 and became one of the first to stake a claim in the lush Willamet
- Author: Lansing, Ronald B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 087422280X
- Language: English
