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  • Landscapes of Conflict

    The Oregon Story, 1940-2000

    de William G. Robbins ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, however, Oregon’s citizens — rural and urban — would find themselves entangled in issues that they had little experience in resolving. The same trees that provided income to timber corporations, small mill ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Oregon

    This Storied Land

    de William G. Robbins ...
    Oregon’s landscape boasts brilliant waterfalls, towering volcanoes, productive river valleys, and far-reaching high deserts. People have lived in the region for at least twelve thousand years, during which they established communities; named places; harvested fish, timber, and agricultural products; and made laws and choices that both protected and threatened the land and its inhabitants.William G ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Landscapes of Promise

    The Oregon Story, 1800-1940

    de William G. Robbins ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning.Robbins ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Hard Times in Paradise

    Coos Bay, Oregon

    de William G. Robbins ...
    Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay’s transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Land in the American West

    Private Claims and the Common Good

    Edición de James C. Foster, William G. Robbins ...
    Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of “land” and “the West” have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy. The essays in Land in the American West deal with complex, troublesome, and interrelated questions regarding land: Who owns it? Who has access to it? What happens when private rights infringe upon the public good, or when one ethnic group is pitted against ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

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  • When Money Grew on Trees

    A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron

    de Greg Gordon ...
    Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Search for the Green River Killer

    The True Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

    de Carlton Smith, Tomás Guillén ...
    New York Times Bestseller: From the journalists who covered the story, the shocking crimes of Gary Ridgway, America's most prolific serial murderer.In the 1980s and 1990s, forty-nine women in the Seattle area were brutally murdered, their bodies dumped along the Green River and Pacific Highway South in Washington State. Despite an exhaustive investigation—even serial killer Ted Bundy was ... Leer más

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  • The Man Behind the Microchip

    Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

    de Leslie Berlin ...
    Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful individual but also the vibrant interplay of technology, business, money, politics, and ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD

  • The Plains Indian Wars: Indian War of 1864, War-Path & Bivouac, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka Or Wyoming Opened, & Northwest Indian Fights & Fighters" (4 Volumes In 1)

    de Eugene F. Ware, John F. Finerty, Henry B. Carrington, Margaret I. Carrington, Cyrus T. Brady ...
    "The Plains Indian Wars: Indian War of 1864, War-Path & Bivouac, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, & Northwest Indian Fights & Fighters" (4 Volumes In 1) by Eugene Ware, John Finerty, Henry Carrington, and Cyrus Brady is an inside, eyewitness look at the Indian Wars that raged on the Plains from 1865-80. The 4 books show these bloody struggles from point of view of both the white man & Indian culture & tradition.Book ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Logging in Mason County

    1946-1985

    de Michael Fredson ...
    Series series Images of America
    In 1946, the US Forest Service and Simpson Logging Company agreed to a sustained yield unit, cooperatively managing lands for 100 years for "community stability." Championed by USFS chief William Greeley and dubbed the "Sustained Steal" by detractors, the Shelton Cooperative Sustained Yield Unit nonetheless provided jobs for returning World War II veterans. Simpson Logging built the largest ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sarah from Alaska

    The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar

    de Scott Conroy, Shushannah Walshe ...
    A year after a vice presidential campaign that remains as consequential as it was controversial, Sarah Palin is still the most dynamic yet polarizing Republican in America. Now Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe draw on their experiences as embedded reporters on Palin's campaign, exclusive on-scene coverage of Palin's post-election struggles in Alaska, and revealing interviews with former McCain ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • My Life as an Indian

    The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet

    de J. W. Schultz ...
    A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians.First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz’s life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory. Inspired by the journals of Lewis and Clark and George Catlin’s depictions of Indian life in his paintings, Schultz journeyed to the American ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD