Washington State University Press
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Spirit in the Rock: The Fierce Battle for Modoc Homelands
$27.95 Add to cartThe Modoc fought the U.S. Army in what would be the most expensive Indian conflict in American history. The hostilities were fierce, bloody, and unjust. In this riveting narrative, Modoc warriors, arm
- Author: Compton, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223504
- Language: English
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David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest
$24.95 Add to cartStarting in 1825, David Douglas made the first systematic collections of flora and fauna across many parts of the greater Pacific Northwest. Colleagues in Great Britain then attached his name to more
- Author: Nisbet, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 874224276
- Language: English
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Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore
$18.95 Add to cartOn a snowy morning in January 1910, the Alaska Steamship Company liner Farallon ran aground on Black Reef in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. Thirty-eight men escaped in the ship’s lifeboats and reached the
- Author: Lloyd, Steve K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0874221943
- Language: English
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The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness
$29.95 Add to cartMeriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to desc
- Author: Jenkinson, Clay S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224160
- Language: English
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A Muckleshoot Poetry Anthology: At the Confluence of the Green and White Rivers
$10.00 Add to cartWhen Susan Landgraf received an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate in 2020, her project proposal included teaching more than a dozen workshops on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation that would culmina
- Author: Landgraf, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224284
- Language: English
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The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820
$24.95 Add to cartBefore Hudson’s Bay Company domination, two companies attempted large-scale corporate trapping and vied to command Northwest fur trade. On one side were the North West Company’s Montreal entrepreneurs
- Author: Keith, H. Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0874223407
- Language: English
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Back on Track: Sound Transit’s Fight to Save Light Rail
$22.95 Add to cartObserving its busy stations today, it is difficult to picture Seattle and Puget Sound without Sound Transit. Or to imagine how close the transportation agency came to folding. Back on Track reveals it
- Author: Wodnik, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0874223695
- Language: English
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John Mullan: The Tumultuous Life of a Western Road Builder
$32.95 Add to cartJohn Mullan’s celebrated construction project–a 625-mile link that connected the Missouri and Columbia rivers–established the West Point graduate as an accomplished road builder. After completing th
- Author: Petersen, Keith C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0874223210
- Language: English
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Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region
$29.95 Add to cartLike the rest of the American West, the mid-Columbia region has always been diverse. Its history mirrors common multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In the late 1880s, Chinese railroad
- Series: Hanford Histories #3
- Author: Bauman, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0874223822
- Language: English
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Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park
$29.95 Add to cartRemote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic, with stunning alpine meadows and jagged peaks that soar beyond ten thousand feet, North Cascades National Park is one of the Pacific Northwest’s crown jewel
- Author: Danner, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223520
- Language: English
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Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World
$22.95 Add to cartOn the eve of World War II, news of an astonishing breakthrough filtered out of Germany. Scientists there had split uranium atoms. Researchers in the United States scrambled to verify results and furt
- Author: Williams, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0874223075
- Language: English
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Wagons to the Willamette: Captain Levi Scott and the Southern Route to Oregon, 1844 1847
$29.95 Add to cartAfter the death of his beloved wife, a devastated Levi Scott and his youngest surviving son left Iowa for Oregon. Their overland journey–rife with quarrels, stolen horses, arduous river fords, con ar
- Author: Scott, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0874223334
- Language: English
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Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot
$34.95 Add to cartBorn to T’siyiak, a champion horse racer and Com-mus-ni, the daughter of Chief Wiy?iikt, Kamiakin helped relatives tend his family’s rapidly expanding herds. He wintered in tule mat lodges in the Kitt
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0874222974
- Language: English
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River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartIn the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark’s
- Author: Nicandri, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224152
- Language: English
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Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niim?puu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1847 two barrels of “Indian curiosities” shipped by missionary Henry Spalding to Dr. Dudley Allen arrived in Kinsman, Ohio. The items inside included exquisite Nez Perce shirts, dresses, baskets, a
- Author: Bond, Trevor James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224055
- Language: English
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The Restless Northwest: A Geological Story
$19.95 Add to cartThe Restless Northwest provides a brief, easy-to-follow overview of the geologic processes that shaped the Northwest.
One of the attractions of the Northwest is its varied terrain, from the volcanic Ca
- Author: Williams, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0874222508
- Language: English
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Wild Place: A History of Priest Lake, Idaho
$27.95 Read moreRemote and rugged, Idaho’s Priest Lake remains a wild place, with brutal winters and an upper lake accessible only by foot, mountain bike, or boat. Even so, beginning in the 1890s a wide cast of homes
- Author: Smith, Kris Runberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 11 2015
- ISBN10: 874223296
- Language: English
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The Evergreen Collection: Exceptional Stories from Across Washington State
$24.95 Add to cartWhile working for Washington State Magazine, eleven journalists traveled throughout the region to interview farmers, chefs, wine tasters, mountain climbers, scientists, and more. The resulting stories
- Author: Clark, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0874224233
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
$32.95 Read moreBetween 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the
- Author: Nisbet, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0874222850
- Language: English
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This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of the infamous murder and robbery of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder and his companions during the 1860s gold rush is legendary in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Ladd Hamilton constructs
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science;846
- Author: Hamilton, Ladd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0874221072
- Language: English
