Washington State University Press
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Lewis and Clark Trail Maps: A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volume I: Missouri River Between Camp River DuBois (Illinois) and Fort Mandan (North Da
$30.00 Read moreThe Lewis and Clark Expedition bicentennial is producing an unprecedented flurry of interest in the United States, and an array of commemorative activities are being planned in the regions visited by
- Series: Cartographic Reconstruction #1
- Author: Plamondon II, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 13 2000
- ISBN10: 087422232X
- Language: English
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Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times
$24.95 Read moreSix weeks after the 1929 stock market crash, Frank Bruce Robinson created a self-help religion he called Psychiana. An ingenious mass-marketing pioneer, he sold a correspondence course promising healt
- Author: Schrand, Brandon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224047
- Language: English
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We Are Aztlán!: Chicanx Histories in the Northern Borderlands
$29.95 Read moreMexican Americans/Chicana/os/Chicanx form a majority of the overall Latino population in the United States. In this collection, established and emerging Chicanx researchers diverge from the discipline
- Author: García, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: March 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223474
- Language: English
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Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages
$27.95 Add to cartThroughout the mid-1800s, outsiders, including many Euro-Americans, arrived in what is now northwest Washington. As they interacted with Samish, Lummi, S’Klallam, Sto: lo, and other groups, some of th
- Author: Wellman, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: May 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223466
- Language: English
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Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas-Fir Forest
$16.95 Read moreThe word “unique” is overused. But in the case of Not Just Trees, that description is accurate.
Not Just Trees is the gracefully written story of life in an ancient Oregon Coast Range forest. Covering
- Author: Dirks-Edmunds, Jane Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 16 1999
- ISBN10: 0874221706
- Language: English
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Inventing Idaho: The Gem State’s Eccentric Shape
$26.95 Add to cartAs Idaho’s State Historian, the question Keith Petersen heard most was, “How did Idaho get such a strange shape?” That curiosity is fitting, because those peculiar borders have held enormous influence
- Author: Petersen, Keith C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224187
- Language: English
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Spirit in the Rock: The Fierce Battle for Modoc Homelands
$27.95 Read moreThe Modoc fought the U.S. Army in what would be the most expensive Indian conflict in American history. The hostilities were fierce, bloody, and unjust. In this riveting narrative, Modoc warriors, arm
- Author: Compton, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223504
- Language: English
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David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest
$24.95 Read moreStarting in 1825, David Douglas made the first systematic collections of flora and fauna across many parts of the greater Pacific Northwest. Colleagues in Great Britain then attached his name to more
- Author: Nisbet, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 874224276
- Language: English
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Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore
$18.95 Read moreOn a snowy morning in January 1910, the Alaska Steamship Company liner Farallon ran aground on Black Reef in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. Thirty-eight men escaped in the ship’s lifeboats and reached the
- Author: Lloyd, Steve K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0874221943
- Language: English
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The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness
$29.95 Add to cartMeriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to desc
- Author: Jenkinson, Clay S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224160
- Language: English
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A Muckleshoot Poetry Anthology: At the Confluence of the Green and White Rivers
$10.00 Read moreWhen Susan Landgraf received an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate in 2020, her project proposal included teaching more than a dozen workshops on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation that would culmina
- Author: Landgraf, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224284
- Language: English
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The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820
$24.95 Add to cartBefore Hudson’s Bay Company domination, two companies attempted large-scale corporate trapping and vied to command Northwest fur trade. On one side were the North West Company’s Montreal entrepreneurs
- Author: Keith, H. Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0874223407
- Language: English
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Back on Track: Sound Transit’s Fight to Save Light Rail
$22.95 Read moreObserving its busy stations today, it is difficult to picture Seattle and Puget Sound without Sound Transit. Or to imagine how close the transportation agency came to folding. Back on Track reveals it
- Author: Wodnik, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0874223695
- Language: English
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John Mullan: The Tumultuous Life of a Western Road Builder
$32.95 Read moreJohn Mullan’s celebrated construction project–a 625-mile link that connected the Missouri and Columbia rivers–established the West Point graduate as an accomplished road builder. After completing th
- Author: Petersen, Keith C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0874223210
- Language: English
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Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region
$29.95 Read moreLike the rest of the American West, the mid-Columbia region has always been diverse. Its history mirrors common multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In the late 1880s, Chinese railroad
- Series: Hanford Histories #3
- Author: Bauman, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0874223822
- Language: English
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Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park
$29.95 Read moreRemote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic, with stunning alpine meadows and jagged peaks that soar beyond ten thousand feet, North Cascades National Park is one of the Pacific Northwest’s crown jewel
- Author: Danner, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223520
- Language: English
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Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World
$22.95 Read moreOn the eve of World War II, news of an astonishing breakthrough filtered out of Germany. Scientists there had split uranium atoms. Researchers in the United States scrambled to verify results and furt
- Author: Williams, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0874223075
- Language: English
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Wagons to the Willamette: Captain Levi Scott and the Southern Route to Oregon, 1844 1847
$29.95 Read moreAfter the death of his beloved wife, a devastated Levi Scott and his youngest surviving son left Iowa for Oregon. Their overland journey–rife with quarrels, stolen horses, arduous river fords, con ar
- Author: Scott, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0874223334
- Language: English
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Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot
$34.95 Read moreBorn to T’siyiak, a champion horse racer and Com-mus-ni, the daughter of Chief Wiy?iikt, Kamiakin helped relatives tend his family’s rapidly expanding herds. He wintered in tule mat lodges in the Kitt
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0874222974
- Language: English
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River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartIn the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark’s
- Author: Nicandri, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224152
- Language: English
