Washington State University Press
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Chasing Wildlife Secrets: A Biologist’s Journey
$29.95 Add to cartProfessional wildlife biologist Scott McCorquodale observed the natural world from a unique and intimate perspective. His compelling, dramatic, and detailed accounts describe forty years of research o
- Author: Scott McCorquodale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0874224365
- Language: English
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Seattle’s Streetcar Era: An Illustrated History, 1884-1941
$40.00 Add to cartSeattle’s population was growing rapidly during the 1880s, but steep hills and shorelines impeded residential development, pushing expansion northward and creating a long, narrow corridor ideal for a
- Author: Bergman, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224071
- Language: English
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Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles
$24.95 Read moreCaptured 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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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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Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology
$21.95 Add to cartEssential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct volume. This landmark collection features essays by note
- Author: Stratton, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 087422277X
- Language: English
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Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest Volga Germans (Revised, Expanded)
$24.95 Add to cartHardship to Homeland recounts Volga Germans’ unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to Russia and across the Atlantic. Burdened by war and debt, life was extremely difficult for impoverish
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223628
- Language: English
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An Eye for Injustice: Robert C. Sims and Minidoka
$21.95 Add to cartAs wartime hysteria mounted following the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, and the U.S. government began forcibly relocating all West
- Author: Stacy, Susan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0874223768
- Language: English
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You Have Been Randomly Selected: A Life Dedicated to Turning Research Findings Into Practical Applications
$34.95 Read moreSome scholars label the sample survey–the idea that small, randomly selected, well-designed samples can provide accurate estimates of large population attributes–as the most important social science
- Author: Dillman, Don A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224306
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wonder: An Ecologist’s View of Wild Alaska
$24.95 Add to cartThe grizzly paused in knee-deep water, staring straight at the man behind the camera. Abruptly he bolted, racing full tilt toward Thomas Bancroft, his eyes glued to the photographer’s face. The bear k
- Author: Bancroft, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224314
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wonder: An Ecologist’s View of Wild Alaska
$40.00 Add to cartThe grizzly paused in knee-deep water, staring straight at the man behind the camera. Abruptly he bolted, racing full tilt toward Thomas Bancroft, his eyes glued to the photographer’s face. The bear k
- Author: Bancroft, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224357
- Language: English
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Remote Wonders: An Explorer’s Guide to Southeast Oregon
$19.95 Add to cartAt first glance the landscape looks desolate–a barren realm of basalt rims, high cold deserts, dry lakes, and vast expanses of grass and sage. In fact, it is a place where petite flowers bloom on roc
- Author: Adams, Melvin R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: October 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0874223326
- Language: English
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Wheat Country Railroad: The Northern Pacific’s Spokane & Palouse and Competitors
$50.00 Add to cartRailroad development and competition played a critical role in eastern Washington and northwest Idaho’s agricultural and population growth. Sweeping opportunity lured transportation moguls into the fe
- Author: Beach, Philip F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 087422361X
- Language: English
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Not as Briefed: From the Doolittle Raid to a German Stalag
$31.95 Read moreFrom Tokyo to Berlin, WSU art graduate Ross Greening painted and wrote a one-of-kind record of action in WWII. Entering combat in April 1942, he piloted a B-25 in the Doolittle bombing raid on Japan a
- Author: Greening, Colonel C. Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0874222591
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: The Spirit of the CCC
$19.95 Add to cartOn March 21, 1933, with the nation in darkest despair because of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in forestry, th
- Author: Hill, Edwin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 07 1990
- ISBN10: 0874220734
- Language: English
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Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times
$24.95 Add to cartSix 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 Add to cartMexican 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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Lewis and Clark Trail Maps: A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volume II: Beyond Fort Mandan (North Dakota/Montana) to Continental Divide and Snake Ri
$30.00 Add to cartIn Volume II, Martin Plamondon presents a cartographic reconstruction of the Corps of Discovery’s trek across the northwestern United States in 1805-06. Beginning a short distance above Fort Mandan, 1
- Series: Cartographic Reconstruction #2
- Author: Plamondon II, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0874222427
- 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 Add to cartThe 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
