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  • Stevens County

    by Kay L. Counts ...
    Series series Images of America
    Stevens County was first inhabited by a Paleo-Indian culture that occupied Kettle Falls along the Columbia River for 9,000 years. A gathering place for several Salish Indian tribes, the area called Shonitkwu, meaning �Falls of Boiling Baskets,� was an abundant resource for fishing�specifically salmon. Traveling downriver from Kettle Falls to the trading post Spokane House in 1811, Canadian fur ... Read more

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  • Tribes and Trappers: A History of Montana, Volume I

    Montana History Series, #1

    Series Book 1 - Montana History Series
    Montana's history is rich, colorful, and full of excitement in this fully-illustrated volume.See how Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger blazed trails and made their names under the Big Sky. Read about the day John Colter ran naked for his life, Blackfeet Indians fast on his heels.Watch as Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly before being left to die alone by his 'friends.' Have a toast with rowdy Mike ... Read more

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  • Hidden History of Portland, Oregon

    by JD Chandler ...
    Series series Hidden History
    In this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people's history of Portland, Oregon, sharing the lesser-known stories of individuals who stood against the tide and fought for liberty and representation: C.E.S. Wood, who documented the conflict between Native Americans and the United States Army; Beatrice Morrow Cannady, founding member of the Portland NAACP and first African American ... Read more

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  • Clarkston

    Series series Images of America
    Clarkston, Washington, and Lewiston, Idaho, are twin cities that meet at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers in southeast Washington. Gold was discovered upstream in the Clearwater drainage in 1860. A few settlers crossed the Snake River to an area called Jawbone Flats. It was flat and covered with sagebrush. Thirty years later, investors from back East arrived with big plans. C. Van ... Read more

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  • Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula

    Who We Are, Second Edition

    Edited by Jacilee Wray ...
    The nine Native tribes of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula—the Hoh, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Quinault, Quileute, and Makah—share complex histories of trade, religion, warfare, and kinship, as well as reverence for the teaching of elders. However, each indigenous nation’s relationship to the Olympic Peninsula is unique. Native ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The WPA Guide to Washington

    The Evergreen State

    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Lost Restaurants of Seattle

    by Chuck Flood ...
    An expert in Americana explores the legendary eateries of Seattle's past, from culinary pioneers to neighborhood haunts, roadside diners, and more.From the nineteenth century to today, Seattle has been home to some of the finest oyster houses, dining rooms, and lunch counters in America. It has seen them come and, in many cases, watched them go. In Lost Restaurants of Seattle, author Chuck Flood ... Read more

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  • Seattle's 1962 World's Fair

    by Bill Cotter ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    In the late 1950s, Seattle's civic and business leaders were worried about the city losing its dominant position as a trading partner with the lucrative Pacific Rim nations. Interested in showing off all that the city and state had to offer in the hope of gaining new business, their unlikely solution was a world's fair, the first to be held in the United States since 1940. Other cities across the ... Read more

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  • Oregon's Capitol Buildings

    by Tom Fuller ...
    Series series Images of America
    The state of Oregon has had not one, not two, but three state capitol buildings. Two of them met a sudden and unexpected end�destruction by fire. William Willson, a pioneer of Salem, donated some acres from his Donation Land Claim for a state capitol. The first, built in 1855, may have been torched in a desperate fight to move the capitol to Corvallis. A second capitol, built in 1873, was ... Read more

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  • Crater Lake National Park

    Series series Images of America
    For more than half a million years, volcano Mount Mazama towered over southern Oregon. From time to time, it erupted, spreading pumice, ash, and cinders for miles around. Then, approximately 7,700 years ago, Mount Mazama erupted with such force that the volcano could no longer support itself and it collapsed, leaving a large caldera. Eventually, the volcanic action subsided and all was calm. Over ... Read more

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  • Influential Women of Spokane

    Building a Fair City

    While known as the home of Father's Day, Spokane benefited from its share of trailblazing women. In 1886, Mother Joseph, a pioneering architect, constructed the first Sacred Heart Hospital. After fire destroyed thirty-six blocks in 1889, Anna Stratton Browne and her friends raised $10,000 to build a home for needy children that operated for six decades. And in early 1908, May Hutton became ... Read more

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  • Oysterville

    Series series Images of America
    For generations, Chinook Indians camped in the area that is now Oysterville, gathering oysters from the shallow waters of Shoalwater Bay. When tribal elder �Old Klickeas� introduced two young adventurers, Robert Hamilton Espy and Isaac Alonzo Clark, to the oyster treasure, the pioneer boom years began. Oysters were marketed in gold-rich, oyster-hungry San Francisco, where a plateful sold for $50. ... Read more

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