Basalt Books
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Hardhat Days: My Re-Education in Seattle’s Shipyards
$22.95 Add to cartFollowing weeks of fruitless 1970s job-hunting, new college graduate Mike Nolan was broke and miserable, sleeping on his sister’s couch. As a last resort, he signed on as a shipyard laborer, and disco
- Author: Mike Nolan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1638640327
- Language: English
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Believing in Indians: A Mixed-Blood Odyssey
$24.95 Add to cartComing of age in an era of assimilation and cultural erasure, Tony Tekaroniake Evans’ third-grade teacher informed his class that Indians no longer exist. How could this be when his grandmother spoke
- Author: Evans, Tony Tekaroniake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1638640297
- 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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Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford Pinchot
$24.95 Add to cartGifford Pinchot, Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS) from 1905 to 1910, marveled at the Cascades’ old growth trees. Yet sadly, despite what its namesake championed, no current visitor to
- Author: Schenck, Rand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1638640254
- Language: English
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The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay
$19.95 Read moreIn 1859 Great Britain and the United States almost went to war over the Northwest boundary when an American farmer shot a British pig. That July, U.S. Army Captain George E. Pickett looked down the gu
- Author: Vouri, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640025
- Language: English
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Nightmare on the Scottie: The Maiden Voyage of a Doomed King Crabber
$18.95 Read moreAlthough Mobile, Alabama’s Bender Shipyard built shrimp boats and oil rig supply vessels for the Gulf of Mexico, until they finished the Scottie in December 1969, they had never constructed a vessel d
- Author: Orsini, Stephen D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: June 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640009
- Language: English
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Global Nomad: My Travels Through Diving, Tragedy, and Rebirth
$22.95 Read moreAs a youngster growing up in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, suburb, Tom Haig ran wild with the neighborhood’s kids. By seventh grade, the thirst for adventure and fearlessness he learned from them led him to
- Author: Haig, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640033
- Language: English
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Cashup Davis: The Inspiring Life of a Secret Mentor
$18.95 Read moreEnamored by the western frontier, British immigrant Cashup Davis, his wife Mary Ann, and nine children became one of the first white families to settle on the Palouse’s spectacular rolling hills in ea
- Author: Burnside, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163864005X
- Language: English
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Getting Elected Is the Easy Part: Working and Winning in the State Legislature
$24.95 Read moreAcross the nation every two years, first-time lawmakers enter state legislatures–institutions steeped in tradition, arcane procedures, and unwritten rules. Although dozens of publications advise cand
- Author: Keiser, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1638640114
- Language: English
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Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch
$19.95 Read moreLike many Pacific Northwest sheep herders, Sebastian Etulain emigrated from Europe’s Basque country. He arrived in Yakima in May of 1921, convinced that hard work could overcome a lack of formal educa
- Author: Etulain, Richard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1638640076
- Language: English
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The Last Lookout on Dunn Peak: Fire Spotting in Idaho’s St. Joe National Forest
$22.95 Read moreSome summers are destined to generate cherished memories. For married high school sweethearts Don and Nancy Hammond, they happened in 1972 and 1973, when Don’s lifelong dream of being a United States
- Author: Hammond, Nancy Sule
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: August 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1638640084
- Language: English
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Surviving the Sand: My Family’s Struggle to Farm the Pasco Desert
$18.95 Add to cart“Dad’s eyes danced. His grin held happiness…hope. ‘We’re home!’ he announced. Mom stared out the pickup window. Silent. Lifeless…Tufts of skinny grass and small grayish green bushes surrounded us.
- Author: Heavirland, Helen Lingscheit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640041
- Language: English
