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Washington State University Press
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©2002
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In images and narratives, Native River recreates the untamed Mid-Columbia--the river as it once was, before the building of seven major dams. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, maps, and photographs, many never before published, this finely crafted book focuses on the 350-mile reach of the middle Columbia River from Priest Rapids in south-central Washington to the U.S. Canadian border. William Layman affords each segment of this waterway with its...
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"Tales of intrigue include unusual unsolved crimes, legends of lost treasure, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, author Lynn Bragg recounts myths and legends from Washington's past, verifying some tales and exposing others for what may have really occurred"--Provided by publisher.
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University of Nebraska Press
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Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. Recent environmental controversies, such as endangered salmon runs and the spotted owl dispute, have been addressed, as has the effect...
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Sasquatch Books
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"The story of the land in the Northwest flows from the cataclysmic ice-age floods. So it only follows that the stories of the people in this terrain are inextricably linked to the aftereffects of that great deluge. These are the genesis stories of a region. Included are the controversy over the provenance and ownership of a meteor that fell to earth in rural Oregon; the mystery of the aurora borealis as observed by 18th-century explorer David Thompson;...
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"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
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Told by the pioneers volume 1
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1937
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English
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To preserve stories of pioneers, which had not already found their way into published histories and reminiscences of the State of Washington, a project was begun in the early part of 1936 as part of a Friendly Visiting Program to elderly persons receiving old age assistance from the Washington State Dept. of Public Welfare. Consequently, these elderly persons were interviewed and their early stories, which might otherwise have been lost, have been...
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The civilization of the American Indian volume 120
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[2005]
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English
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"Before, during, and after the encroachment of white settlers, the Cayuse Indians were a powerful tribe, inhabiting a vast Pacific Northwest region between the Cascade and Rocky mountains. Today their community, now consisting of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla confederation of tribes, is growing stronger both economically and culturally." "One event in particular has been used to characterize the Cayuse people in popular literature - the 1847...
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"The definitive collection of "Seattle Now and Then" photo essays from Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard. These are the top 100 of more than 1800 columns on Seattle history that the authors produced from 1982 to today. They offer a glimpse into Seattle's past in a dramatic and powerful way, by pairing each of the best historical Seattle images with current images from the exact same location; each pairing explained in the memorable words of Paul Dorpat."--Provided...
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The lore of the harvest is the keynote of Brumfield's presentation. He approaches this vast subject with considerable facility lifting farming right out of the soil into fascinating history, with accent on the Northwest. Wheat in the Northwest? Yes, it's all here, acres of it in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, all graded and sacked.
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