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University Bookstore
Pub. Date
1941
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English
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From Preface: Contemporary records are the stuff from which history is written; they are likewise the materials in which history can be read. Washington is rich in materials of this sort. This work includes such materials as diaries, journals, letters, articles, promotion literature, and more. This book necessarily includes only a limited selection of significant materials. The choice of items has been somewhat arbitrary; many alternative passages...
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University of Washington Press
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[2019]
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English
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"Murray Morgan's classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness 'as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon.' Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails,...
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Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
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Washington State University Press
Pub. Date
©1995
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English
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Indian inhabitants laid out the basic travel routes in central Washington's Grand Coulee country probably 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. In the early 1800s, the semi-nomadic Sinkiuse and other Native Americans continued to use these routes through the spectacular coulees. Following in their footsteps came a host of white explorers and frontiersmen - at first in a trickle, then in greater numbers by mid-century. Forgotten Trails is a compilation of the...
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Westcliffe Publishers
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2007.
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English
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Despite the often astonishing changes in the landscape, authors Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard searched high and low, determined to find the same locations and angles as their predecessors. The result is a portrait that reflects not only the amazing changes brought on by time, but also a record of what has remained in this most scenic western state.
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When nine-hundred-foot ice age floods carved the Columbia River Gorge through the Cascade Mountains to the sea, little space was left for man to form a highway of his own. It took an artist-poet-engineer extraordinaire to conquer this reluctant piece of real estate and produce the nation's first scenic highway. Meet Sam Hill, the mover and shaker, and Samuel Lancaster, the polio survivor, who turned modern engineering on its ear to create a "poem...
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Gold creeks and ghost towns volume Northeastern Washington
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English
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state's deadliest mass homicide. Some of America's most notorious serial killers wrought terror...
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Civitas Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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George W. Scott was elected to the legislature while earning a Ph. D. at the University of Washington. He served in both houses 14 years, and in the senate as Whip, Caucus Chair, and presided over the budget-writing Ways and Means Committee. His varied career as a teacher, Assistant to the Dean of the U.W. Medical School, Vice President for Social Policy at Rainier Bancorporation, Executive Director of the State Dental Association, Director of Public...
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Ethnic history volume 8
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Washington State Historical Society
Pub. Date
1984
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English
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Quincy Valley Historical Society
Pub. Date
©2011
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English
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The decades long struggle to bring water to the Quincy Valley is a story of persistence and determination, as a group of farmers grasped the dry dirt of a sagebrush desert, held tight, and with patience and hard work transformed the landscape into abundant farmland and orchards.
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