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Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest guides you through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, relating the hidden history of long-gone soldiers, settlers, farmers, and miners. This essential, guidebook to the historic remains of centuries past includes maps, town histories, color photographs, and detailed directions. Plan your road trips by chapter-each chapter covers a geographic area and town entries...

Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in the pacific northwest region. Containing accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS coordinates, historical information, land ownership restrictions, full-color photos,...

"Explore the Evergreen State from Seattle and Puget Sound cities to Spokane and the Inland Northwest wine country. See three National Parks, the San Juan Islands, Olympic rain forests, Lake Chelan, Pacific Ocean beaches and year-round recreational sites from the Canadian border to the mouth of the Columbia River"--Case.

This tribal history of the Spokane Indians begins with an account of their early life in the Pacific Northwest central plateau region before the arrival of white settlers and fur traders in the eighteenth century. It then describes in harrowing detail the U.S. government's encroachment on their lands and the subsequent enforced settlement of Spokane people on reservations. The volume concludes with a presentation of twentieth-century developments,...

"The purpose of this project is to capture 'a moment in time' in the more recent years of 2011 and 2012, and to show how people who live in Republic work, and dress, and get around in today's world." -- Introduction

The formation of the Grand Coulee remained a mystery for many years, until J Harlen Bretz proved that the Columbia River basin was the site of huge floods 15,000 years ago that created the landscape we see today.

""Nearly seventy-five years of my lifetime have come and gone since hearing of the sparse historical events from the old-timers," American Indian elder George Aguilar tells us. "It's my turn now." When the River Ran Wild! is Aguilar's recounting of events he heard about while watching his grandmother make moccasins by the light of a coal-oil lamp and while strapped to the back of his aunt's horse on the way to the huckleberry grounds. He learned them...