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Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"The story of the land in the Northwest flows from the cataclysmic ice-age floods. So it only follows that the stories of the people in this terrain are inextricably linked to the aftereffects of that great deluge. These are the genesis stories of a region. Included are the controversy over the provenance and ownership of a meteor that fell to earth in rural Oregon; the mystery of the aurora borealis as observed by 18th-century explorer David Thompson;...
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Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 158
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1988, c1981
Language
English
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
2004 Washington State Book Award Finalist
"Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores, of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that flourished well into the twentieth century. In Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest, Linda Carlson provides
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WestWinds Press
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
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"WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure--pioneering across the continent. Not only does the material represent half-forgotten history--which the author garnered from attics, libraries, state historical museums, and the reminiscences of Far Western Old-timers--but it is unique in presenting the woman's side of the story in this major American experience....
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Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The story of David Douglas, the premier botanical explorer in the Pacific Northwest and other areas of western North America. Douglas' discoveries include hundreds of western plants--most notably the Douglas Fir. The Collector tracks Douglas, from his humble birth in Scotland in 1799 to his botanical training under the famed William Jackson Hooker to his adventures in North America discovering "exotic" new plants for the English and European market....
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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In 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advanced parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast of North America. More than half of his men died violent deaths. The others survived starvation, madness, and greed to shape the destiny of a continent. At a time when the edge of American settlement barely reached beyond the Appalachian Mountains, two visionaries, President Thomas Jefferson and millionaire John Jacob Astor, foresaw that one day the...
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Amid an alarming rise in xenophobia, Ana Maria Spagna stumbled upon a story: one day in 1875, on a high bluff over the Columbia River, a group of local Indigenous people murdered a large number of Chinese Miners and pushed their bodies off a cliff into the river. The incident was dubbed the Chelan Falls Massacre. Despite having lived in the area for decades, Spagna had never before heard of this event. In Pushed, she sets out to discover what really...
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Publisher
[Village Books]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Through the peaks and valleys of both landscape and life, these three stories paint a triptych of insight into the people, places and still wild character of the rural Pacific Northwest. Rendered in colorful, evocative detail, each tale tells how wildness lends strength to us all, testing our courage and affording us hope in scaling the heights of our dreams."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher
Jim Hendrickson
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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This book contains 23 short tales about some strange places, events, people and things in Jefferson County, Washington state. Among the many stories in the book, you will discover fascinating facts about a haunted castle that is now a popular hotel, an annual pagan festival, a top secret military island, and a mysterious sea creature who lives in the waters off Jefferson County. The author, who currently resides there, has extensively researched
...15) The Northwest coastal explorer: your guide to the places, plants, and animals of the Pacific Coast
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"A fun, engaging, and full-color field guide to the marine life in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars buried in rising drifts, parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. An army of the Great Northern Railroad's men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains, but the storm was unrelenting. Suddenly the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche...
17) Boneshaker
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 1
Language
English
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Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighborhood outside the wall that's been built around the uninhabitable city. Life is tough with a ruined reputation, but she and her teenage son Ezekiel are surviving--until Zeke impetuously decides that...
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Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Among the Pacific Northwest's many treasures is the Evergreen State, a state rich in eerie events. Haunted Washington, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings, will leave readers delightfully frightened.
Haunted Washington includes dozens of stories, from the royal Native American ghost of Seattle's Pike Place Market to the haunted mansion that inspired horrormeister Stephen King's TV
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find.