Beginning in the 1890s, adventurous souls—a wide cast of homesteaders, prospectors, speculators, and loggers dazzled by its natural resources—tried their best to tame Idaho's Priest Lake. Yet grand tu
The Blue Note documents a portion of American cultural history not often chronicled. Focused on Seattle's black American Federation of Musician's Local 493, it is an upbeat story of race, jazz, gender
This book is part memoir, part history, and unusually well written for a work of this type. Melvin, who was born in the desert region of eastern Oregon in 1941, interweaves an affectionate account of
Lucullus V. McWhorter devoted much of his life to preserving the history of the Nez Perce and Yakama Indians of the Pacific Northwest's interior plateau region. McWhorter held a unique role as Nez Per
Peripatetic reporter, Hill Williams, offers four decades of history, most covering the Pacific Northwest, scientific revelations, and world changes. He covers a wide variety of regional topics: the
Established in 1853, Washington remained a Territory until admitted into the Union thirty-six years later in 1889. Few other territories in the American West languished longer in dependent status. Bec
Strangers in the Forest, originally published in 1959, was included in the popular Reader's Digest Condensed Books series. Set in the white pine timberland of the Idaho panhandle in 1908, the story ex
Dr. Robert Wright practiced medicine in the Sun Valley region of Idaho in the early decades of the 20th century, traveling to patients' homes by dogsled, buggy, and eventually Studebaker. In this acco
In engineering classes around the world, footage of the spectacular collapse of "Galloping Gertie," the original 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, remains a standard object lesson in the history of civil en
In 1943, old hands at Tacoma's Union Station probably didn't think much of the idea of hiring a green, 16-year-old kid. But with so many men away at war, the labor shortage was critical and any new wo
Pacific Northwest history writer Robert E. Ficken describes the effects of the Fraser River gold rush of 1858 on the development of the Pacific Northwest. He explores how opposing forces and governmen
This economic and political history of territorial Washington identifies factors such as dividing mountain ranges (The Cascades) and lack of adequate internal transportation as explanations for Washin
Maritime historian and researcher James K. Barnett transcribed two extraordinary but little-known journals from Captain James Cook’s third exploratory voyage. Two young officers offer remarkable eyewi
The Seattle 7 embodied late 1960s counterculture--young, idealistic, active organizers against racism and the Vietnam War, and fond of long hair, rock’n’roll, sex, drugs, and parties. In January 1970
Washington State is a place of political mavericks. Split tickets are a source of pride and independent voters outnumber Democrats and Republicans. Washington was first to have a voter-approved state
