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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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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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Identify Washington birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.
Make birdwatching in Washington even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This handy book features 136 species of Washington birds organized by color for...
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PBS DVD
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[2004]
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English
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Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them.
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Hawkshadow Pub. Co
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©2001
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Orphaned by the untimely deaths of her parents, Emma Jorden has to abandon her Kansas home. Lost on the featureless prairie and near death, she is rescued by Shea Hawkshadow, a half-breed Cheyenne warrior. Her impulsive marriage to Shea propels them both into a precarious and treacherous existence. Fleeing brutal persecution for their interracial marriage, they embark on a risky journey across the frontier.-Cover.
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CMP Publishing Group
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[2010]
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"Wildly liberal Washington State Senator Lisa Belle from the Seattle area pins her hopes for an upcoming U.S. Senate run on 'milestone ecological legislation': The Belle Nobel Grizzly Bear Restoration Act. Sixty grizzly bears are about to be seeded into the wilderness of Central Washington's remote, sparsely populated, and largely conservative Okanogan County. A motley and eclectic crew of Okanogan Countians are micro-thrilled with the prospect of...
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