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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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Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage. In these comfort-zone-destroying tales, including the masterpiece, War Dances, characters grapple with racism, damaging stereotypes, poverty, alcoholism, diabetes, and the tragic loss of languages and customs. Questions of authenticity and identity abound.
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Shafer Historical Museum
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©2017
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Lost Homeland gives voices to the compelling, little-known story of how the Methow Indians of North Central Washington lost their homeland. Unbeknownst to them, the United States placed their aboriginal territory into the Columbia Reservation in 1879 at the urging of Sinkayuse-Columbia Chief Moses, who had no right to speak for the Methow.Four years later, as pressure grew to open the region's Indian lands to white settlement, the enormous Columbia...
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This is a book about how well-intentioned Americans dammed up the Columbia, "Great River of the West," fulfilling dreams of cheap electricity and gardens flourishing in the desert. It is also a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a river - once wild - tamed to puddled remains. Harden's story is a journey of rediscovery. His home town, Moses Lake, Washington, once bone dry, could not have existed...
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Washington hikers are fast discovering that there's no reason to stop hiking when the snow falls. Since 1990, the number of snowshoers has increased by more than 300 percent. Covering 81 routes ranging from beginner-level to hard-core backcountry, Dan Nelson provides much-needed access information for finding the best winter trails. Introductory material discusses basic techniques, equipment and clothing, winter camping tips, route selection, safety,...
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2014
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"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ectopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship, revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now this mysteriouscountry admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But Ectopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be...
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[Peter Marbach]
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[2019]
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A collection photographs of the Big River accompanied by essays, many by Pacific Northwest tribal members, about the history and importance of salmon in the Columbia River and the issues around the many dams blocking the historic salmon runs.
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S.M. Bennett
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[1989?]
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Vernon Burr Monroe (1889-1951) was the son of John Will and Laura Amos Monroe of Hart Co., Kentucky. His family farmed in Hart Co., later moved to Indiana, to Auburn, Kentucky, and Douglas Co. Washington, near to Bridgeport Bar. He married Maude Galbraith, daughter George W. and Quillie Galbraith of Bridgeport. They had two daughters. Several generations of ancestors and descendants are given for several branches of the family.
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True Books
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2013.
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"With new information about Ted Bundy's childhood, interviews with those who knew him best, and the memories of the Burr family, Ted and Ann is the story of one of the 20th century's most fascinating cold cases."--Back cover
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Oregon State University Press
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2007.
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A riveting glimpse into a unique heritage, Children of the Fur Trade recovers a vital part of Northwest history. During the first half of the 19th century, a unique subculture built around hunting and mobility existed quietly in the Pacific Northwest. Descendants of European or Canadian fur trapper fathers and Native American mothers, these mixed-blood settlers-called Metis-were pivotal to the development of the Oregon Country, but have been generally...
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