The Marmes Rockshelter is one of the most significant archaeological sites in the Pacific Northwest, not only due to its 11,000-year record of human use beginning in early Holocene times, but also bec
"Follows the Volga German people from Germany to Russia in the 1760s, when Catherine the Great invited colonists to settle the Volga River region. When the Russian Senate in 1871 revoked the terms of
Shape (1867-1960) was from a prosperous Wisconsin brewing family and had travelled and studied in Europe. He left his wife and children in New York to search for gold in Alaska, 1897-98, and left the
A remarkable range of ancient societies and economies flourished in the environmentally diverse coastal regions of Pacific Latin America. This first ever synthesis from a Pacific perspective describes
Many of the 11 studies here originated in the Pettyjohn Distinguished Lecture Series on the history of Washington state and the northwest US, held annually during the 1980s and 1990s at Washington Sta
A photographer with an artist's eye. Here are his photos and reminiscences on and around the Northern Pacific R.R. Co. from 1943 into the 1970s largely in the western reaches of the Northern Pacific.
A Wenatchee, Washington counselor, who won an award from the Center for Columbia River History, offers a photo essay on the history of the region known as the Upper Columbia. The 167 b&w plates in