Pacific Northwest

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467134842Author Cornelia Gallen-KimmellFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467131018Author Scott BlackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467125055Author Tracy J PrinceFormat HardbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 454g

Offers a comprehensive exploration of Seattle's cuisine from geographical, historical, cultural, and culinary perspectives. From glaciers to geoducks, from the Salish Sea with swift currents sweeping wild salmon home from the Pacific Ocean to their...

Many of the events that took place along the Oregon Trail are well known--the perils the Applegate family faced as they rafted down the raging Columbia River, the plight of the Donner Party as they found themselves snowbound and starving at Truckee Lake...

From an unexpected mudslide that blanketed an entire town to the massive manhunt for an infamous prison escapee, It Happened in Washington looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Evergreen State. Sail the seas along Washington's...

Residents and visitors in today's Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topography to accommodate their changing visions. In Too...

Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO) Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History Association Seattle would not exist without animals. Animals have played a vital...

Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad...

Walking Washington's History: Ten Cities, a follow-up to Judy Bentley's bestselling Hiking Washington's History, showcases the state's engaging urban history through guided walks in ten major cities. Using narrated walks, maps, and historic photographs,...

Every winter settlers of the U.S. and Canadian Mountain West could expect to lose dozens of lives to deadly avalanches. This constant threat to trappers, miners, railway workers-and their families-forced individuals and communities to develop knowledge,...

Immigrants from South Asia first began settling in Washington and Oregon in the nineteenth century, but because of restrictions placed on Asian immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century, the vast majority have come to the region...

Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, however, Oregon's citizens - rural and urban - would find...

Anderson Island in Puget Sound exists as a kind of tiny, autonomous world. Sharply defined by bitterly cold water, deep enough to float a destroyer; by dense fog; and by dangerous tide rips caused by the narrow channels, it is a community without an...

Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with...

Jay Fox (1870-1961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant, whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, historian Greg Hall traces Fox's unorthodox life to shed light on the shifting dynamics in US labor...

Jay Fox (1870-1961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant, whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, historian Greg Hall traces Fox's unorthodox life to shed light on the shifting dynamics in US labor...

Drought. Wildfire. Extreme flooding. How does climate change affect the daily work of scientists? Ecological restoration is often premised on the idea of returning a region to an earlier, healthier state. Yet the effects of climate change undercut that...

"We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead-NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!" With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103664Author L. Burton BrenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980243604Author Dick PintarichFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint New Oregon PublishersPublisher New Oregon PublishersWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467124874Author Jeff AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 499g

Since before Seattle voters decided in 1902 to build their own lighting plant, City Light has been a source of fierce civic pride for its independence from "foreign" corporations, its impressive public works projects, and its consistently low electricity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625450630Author Kate Navarra ThibodeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467132657Author Virginia H. WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738576053Author Clark HumphreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467124089Author Tom HemphillFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467115568Author Alan H. ArchambaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467115322Author Scott BlackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974256856Author Lorraine McConaghyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Shoreline Historical MuseumPublisher Shoreline Historical MuseumWeight(grams) 658g

Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region's beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical...

On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of...

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Oregon, with compelling legends of the Beaver State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con...

A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Northwest.Book InformationISBN 9780762760305Author Elizabeth GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 18g

A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the Emerald City, It Happened in Seattle describes everything from the battle of Seattle in 1856 to the Nisqually earthquake of 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780762743681Author...

It Happened on the Oregon Trail includes twenty-nine unusual, remarkable, little known events that happened along the trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley. From Rufus K. Porter's brilliant plan to fly people to Oregon in hot...

Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins...

Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad...

New Land, New Lives captures the voices of Scandinavian men and women who crossed the Atlantic during the early decades of the 20th century and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Based on oral history interviews with 45 Danes, Finns, Icelanders,...

Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of the richest farmlands in the nation. This work is the story of its transformation. Meinig traces all of the...