In an era of grand risk, fur moguls vied to command Northwest and China markets, gambling lives and capital on the price of beaver pelts, purchases of ships and trade goods, international commerce law
Lansing (law, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon) tracks down the case of Nimrod O'Kelly, who pleaded self-defense in a killing in the Willamette Valley in May 1852, just seven years after law had come t
In this coming-of-age memoir, Alice Koskela captures that peculiar mix of innocence and ruthlessness that is childhood - that time when we know far less than we think we do, and far more than any adul
"Seattle residents were bitterly disappointed in 1873 when the Northern Pacific selected rival Tacoma as the future Puget Sound terminus for Washington Territory's first transcontinental railroad. Thi
Three thousand years ago, Native Americans on Washington's Olympic Peninsula occupied a key seasonal fishing camp on a bar of the Hoko River, close to the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Ov
The Witch of Kodakery is the ground-breaking biography of Myra Albert Wiggins, the successful early 20th-century Oregon photographic artist with connections to Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession
Peters (geology, Washington State U.) has enjoyed a lifelong fascination with science, particularly geology, since she was a child. Originally begun as a column for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News about
This collection of twelve articles on politics in the state of Washington presents a discussion of the unique characteristics of electoral and constitutional policies in the state and explores the eff
Taking part in a combined ethnographic and archaeological research project awarded to Washington State University, anthropologist Smith (1913-99) reviews regional ethnographies, studied park records,
This volume accompanied a 2007 exhibition on the campus of Central Washington University displaying works of art from 58 of the school's alumni who graduated between 1954 and 1979. Found object works,
