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A New York Times Book Review New and Noteworthy Book
This collection of 19 essays on democracy, equal justice, and citizenship “exhorts Americans to love the nation they have by becoming the nation they want” (The Washington Post).
What does it mean to be an engaged American in today’s divided political landscape, and how do we restore hope in our country? In a collection of “civic sermons”...
This collection of 19 essays on democracy, equal justice, and citizenship “exhorts Americans to love the nation they have by becoming the nation they want” (The Washington Post).
What does it mean to be an engaged American in today’s divided political landscape, and how do we restore hope in our country? In a collection of “civic sermons”...
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Washington State University Press
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[2002]
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Established in 1853, Washington remained a Territory until admitted into the Union thirty-six years later in 1889. Few other territories in the American West languished longer in dependent status. Because of a dividing geographical barrier (the Cases Range) and the lack of an adequate internal transportation system, Washington Territory made little practical sense as social and economic entity. Western Washington actually was a satellite of San Francisco...
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Skid Road tells the story of Seattle "from the bottom up," offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City's first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city's history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and railroad industries,...
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Keokee Books
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New and completely updated second edition. Identify and Learn How to Catch 60+ Fish Species of the Columbia Basin If you're on a quest for fishes and the places they live, Fishes of the Columbia Basin is an indispensable guide. The Great Columbia River Plain is a place unlike any other in the United States, with its steep river valleys, broad floodplains, rolling grassland and barren, rocky slopes known as scabland. Within this region are the streams,...
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A collection of poetry with "resilience throughout and an awareness of the common world that both comforts and devastates" (Dorianne Laux, award-winning author of Only As the Day Is Long).
From Tina Schumann, recipient of the American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal and a Pushcart Prize nominee, comes a full collection of fifty-six poems reflecting on the concept of self, loss, fragility, and the constructs we must create in order to...
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University of California Press
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"Dividing Paradise tells the story of a rural American community whose economic growth resulted in increasing inequality and divisions between those who can and those who cannot achieve their rural visions of the American dream. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observation with individuals on both sides of the divide, the book explores the contributors to and impacts of this stark inequality that has become commonplace across the United...
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University of California Press
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[1953]
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This Collection of More than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of story-telling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure,...
11) Horse camping
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Washington State University Press
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[2009]
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Horse camping has long been part of Pacific Northwest lore. The Nez Perce used horses as transportation, and frontier fur trappers also loaded and rode the animals. The journals of these mountain men often contain glowing accounts of their nomadic lifestyle and exhibit a profound appreciation of their surroundings. Today, people still long to experience pristine wilderness and enjoy the simple pleasures nature offers. Pack trips allow individuals...
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There's something for everyone here: popular routes on Mounts Rainier, Adams, Baker, and Shuksan, and lesser-known climbs such as Dragontail Peak and Early Morning Spire. Even better, this completely updated second edition incorporates the viewpoints of many active Cascades climbers -- making it truly a book for the climbing community.
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Graphic Arts Center
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1999.
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Singing Grass, Burning Sage is a celebration in photos and text of eastern Washington's arid lands--a region that encompasses the heart of the Columbia River Basin, and supports a shrub-steppe environment dominated by sagebrush and bunchgrass. Formed by massive basalt flows that pulsed across the Basin, sculpted by ceaseless winds, and scoured by the cataclysmic Lake Missoula floods at the climax of our most recent Ice Age, this landscape offers some...
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Westcliffe Publishers
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2007.
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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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Empty Bowl
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[2018]
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"In this new book, Finn Wilcox gives readers of off-the-road literature the sweet wine and tangy whiskey of these earlier titles: Here among the sacrificed, Nine flower mountain, and Lesson learned. Add a healthy supply of new Wilcox work, and you have a collection demanding to be read to your beloveds, to your children and parents. This elegant tour de force by a devoted artist has the precision and clarity, care and compassion for which Finn is...
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Identification volume 2
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Toussaint Gibson has finally accepted his role as leader of the Resistance. Unfortunately, The Republic soldiers have killed and jailed most of the Resistance Fighters.
Alex Copeland has a vendetta towards Toussaint and has not let up on his promise of destroying everything he cares about. First, killing Toussaint’s mother and now has his eyes on his wife.
The Resistance is outnumbered and outgunned. Will Toussaint and the Resistance rise, or...
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