United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
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Chinese in Washington: The Legacy of the Chinese Exclusion ACT
$24.99 Read moreHow the U.S. law targeting Chinese laborers impacted families for generations.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, after the railroads were completed and the gold mines exhausted, an economic downt
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Hackett Nicola, Trish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1467147729
- Language: English
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Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising
$24.00 Add to cartThe dangers of “progressive policing” as told through a study of Portland, Oregon.
Policing the Progressive City tells the story of how Portland’s “law and order” has been shaped for over two hundred y
- Author: Williams, Kristian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1849354286
- Language: English
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Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War Into the Progressive Era
$39.95 Add to cartFollowing the discovery of gold in 1862 at Auburn and Canyon City, new communities and prospects were established in eastern Oregon. Just as the lure of free land attracted homesteaders and livestock
- Author: Willingham, William F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645479
- Language: English
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Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal: A History and Guide
$24.95 Add to cartHow one canal reshaped Seattle’s history, economy, and environment
Seattle’s waterways are central to the city’s identity, and none more so than the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard (Hiram M. Ch
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 029575494X
- Language: English
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Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartBrings to life Grays Harbor’s fiery legacy of class conflict
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime w
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754001
- Language: English
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Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from Behind the Handlebars
$24.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction
The rise of an improbable bike culture in the Emerald City
Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by
- Author: Fucoloro, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753218
- Language: English
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon: A Living Legacy
$28.99 Read moreThe Civilian Conservation Corps transformed Oregon’s landscapes, building lasting parks, roads, trails, and forest infrastructure.
Amid the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt … [more below]
- Author: Voelz, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1634995279
- Language: English
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Secret Tacoma: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Staudinger, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681066173
- Language: English
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Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle’s Waterfront
$34.95 Add to cartThe powerful story of a place shaped by trade, conflict, and continuous transformation
From canoes on the beach at Dzidzilalich to steamships and piers, Seattle’s waterfront was the center of the ci
- Author: Ott, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1933245743
- Language: English
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True Tales of the Olympic Peninsula
$24.99 Add to cartA magnificent landscape of rugged peaks, impenetrable rainforest and wild coastlines, Washington’s Olympic Peninsula makes a perfect setting for the unexpected.Dive into the stories of pioneers who cr
- Author: Turner, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154628
- Language: English
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Secret Bend, Oregon: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Savage, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065584
- Language: English
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Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape in Text and Images
$34.95 Read moreEnhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country’s beauty and expanse, starting with its First Peoples. Depending on the season, the four Plateau
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1638640262
- Language: English
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High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West
$24.95 Add to cartNestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West
- Author: Bach, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645282
- Language: English
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The Birth of Seattle Rap
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the Seattle streets to studio beats.
In the early 1980s, a subterranean shift in Seattle’s music scene began. Disco’s reign over parties and dance clubs faded, and hip-hop became the new attractio
- Series: Narrative
- Author: 132, Novocaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158240
- Language: English
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Abandoned Washington State: From Old Barns to Atom Bombs
$24.99 Read moreAbandoned Washington State presents a fascinating glimpse into history, through captivating photographs of places now abandoned. Each photograph has a story behind it, and it is through these thought-
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Frisk, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1634994787
- Language: English
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Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles
$24.95 Add to cartCaptured 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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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
$32.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by LitHub
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond–a g- Author: Fraser, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 593657225
- 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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Spirits Along the Columbia River
$21.99 Read moreThe breathtaking scenery of the Pacific Northwest hides a myriad of dark secrets.
From sightings of the Columbia River Sea Serpent, nicknamed Colossal Claude, to tales of Bigfoot encounters dating back
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150568
- Language: English
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Heaven on the Half Shell: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Read moreHeaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest’s beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and c
- Author: Gordon, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0295750782
- Language: English
