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Exploring Camano Island: A History & Guide
Exploring Camano Island: A History & Guide
ARC128
$19.99  
Paperback, Val Schroeder, 159 pages, 6 x 9, 9781626193642
The beaches, forests and wildlife of Washington's Camano Island offer a treasure-trove of natural beauty and endless recreational possibilities. English Boom Historical Park was once a bustling center for logging and is now a peaceful spot with its uplands, salt marsh, shoreline and tidelands....
San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf
ARC092
$26.99  
Paperback, Alessandro Baccari Jr., 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738528977
Fisherman's Wharf is San Francisco's top tourist destination, but its history is much richer and more important than today's quaint attractions suggest. Indeed, many of these well-known sights were developed only in the last few decades. The early wharf, originally known as Meigg's Wharf, was...
The State of Jefferson
The State of Jefferson
ARC131
$21.99  
Paperback, Bernita Tickner & Gail Fiorini-Jenner, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738530963
The State of Jefferson was born in the hearts of pioneers who crossed craggy peaks and treacherous canyons to settle near northern California border. Isolated and feeling neglected by both state governments, they tried to create a new state as early as 1852. The persistent State of Jefferson...
Columbia River Gorge: Natural Treasure On The Old Oregon Trail
Columbia River Gorge: Natural Treasure On The Old Oregon Trail
ARC077
$24.99  
Paperback, Cheri Dohnal, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738524320
Lying in the shadows of Mt. Hood and the Cascade peaks, Columbia River Gorge is as rich in history as the bounty its fertile soils provide. From the numerous native tribes, Lewis & Clark, and famed botanist David Douglas to a guru's siege at Antelope and the modern Gorge's reputation for...
Northern California's Lost Coast
Northern California's Lost Coast
ARC154
$23.99  
Paperback, Tammy Durston, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9, 9781467125444
The Lost Coast is one of the last undeveloped stretches of the California coastline, with mountains that rise thousands of feet from the sea. Located approximately 200 miles north of San Francisco, this remote area of pristine beauty is comprised of jagged cliffs, rocky shorelines, and black...
Gold Beach and South Curry County
Gold Beach and South Curry County
ARC061
$17.50  
Paperback, Meryl Boice, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738596150
Curry County is made up of small communities, ranging from the county line between Langlois and Bandon to the state line. From the inception of Gold Beach, pioneers have survived in small communities scattered throughout Southern Curry County. Despite a lack of roads, these small towns and...
Tugboats on Puget Sound
Tugboats on Puget Sound
ARC032
$24.99  
Paperback, Chuck Fowler & Capt. Mark Freeman, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738559728
While square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and ever-larger cruise and cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on Puget Sound's maritime history, no other vessels have captured the imagination of shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the 1850s when the first...
Sumpter Valley Railway: Oregon
Sumpter Valley Railway: Oregon
ARC157
$17.50  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738571256
In July 1890, David Eccles and Charles Nibley chartered the Sumpter Valley Railway and changed the social and physical landscape of Eastern Oregon forever. The Sumpter Valley Railway and its parent company, the Oregon Lumber Company, became an economic engine that shaped the lives of generations...
Puget Sound Whales for Sale: The Fight to End Orca Hunting
Puget Sound Whales for Sale: The Fight to End Orca Hunting
ARC167
$19.99  
paperback, Sandra Pollard, 192 pages, 6 x 9, 9781626196025
In November 2005, Washington's iconic killer whales, known as Southern Resident orcas, were placed on the endangered species list. It was a victory long overdue for a fragile population of fewer than one hundred whales. Author and certified marine naturalist Sandra Pollard traces the story and...
Astoria
Astoria
ARC048
$24.99  
Paperback, Jeffrey H. Smith, Columbia River Maritime Museum, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738575278
Astoria is the oldest American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. It began in 1811 as a small but ambitious fur trading venture of New York entrepreneur John Jacob Astor and his Pacific Fur Company. The town has seen the development of commerce and trade ebb and flow like the tide...
Maritime Seattle
Maritime Seattle
ARC001
$24.99  
Paperback, Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society, 128 pages, 6.5 x 95, 738520640
A rich pictorial history weaving the evolution of Seattle and King County waterfronts from marshlands to container terminals using hundreds of archival photos, images and maps. Detailed and authoritative captions bring the book to life.
Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage
Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage
ARC182
$24.99  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738536477
Including more than two hundred vintage photographs and illustrations, Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage chronicles the history of the Piscataqua River's naval shipyard and harbor defenses. Long before it became home to one of the U.S. Navy's first federal shipyards, the harbor at...
Sumpter Valley Logging Railroads
Sumpter Valley Logging Railroads
ARC158
$17.50  
Paperback, Alfred Mullett & Leonard Merritt, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738575421
In 1889, David Eccles chartered the Oregon Lumber Company, an organization that produced many mills and railways and whose influence was felt from Salt Lake City to Northern California and Idaho. Through family connections, Eccles was also involved with many other logging enterprises, and he...
Oregon Surfing: Central Coast
Oregon Surfing: Central Coast
ARC098
$22.99  
Paperback, Scott and Sandy Blackman, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467131018
Surfing came to the central Oregon coast in the early 1960s. Mostly young boys from Newport and the Agate Beach area took to the waves, without wetsuits or leashes, and taught themselves how to surf in the forbidding cold waters. Eventually forming the Agate Beach Surf Club, they discovered...
On This Day in Arcata
On This Day in Arcata
ARC114
$19.99  
Paperback, Arcata Union, Arcata Eye, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738556826
Founded in 1858 as the town of Union, the city of Arcata is the cultural capital of Humboldt County. Historically known for its logging, fishing and dairy traditions, modern-day Arcata has evolved into a place where the artistic, the politically and environmentally active and those looking for...
Oregon Surfing North Coast
Oregon Surfing North Coast
ARC146
$24.99  
Paperback, Scott & Sandy Blackman, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9781467115322
Surfing culture began in Portland, Seaside, Cannon Beach, and Pacific City in the early 1960s. Influenced by surf music and a few California surfers, a handful of skin divers and adolescent boys yearned to engage in the sport. In the beginning, surfing was illegal along the beachfronts of...
Camano Island
Camano Island
ARC125
$21.99  
Paperback, Karen Prasse, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738531359
Camano Island is one of dozens of islands in Puget Sound once covered with immense stands of Douglas fir and Western red cedar. Beginning in 1858, and while the Civil War raged half a continent away, a large mill operated at the northern end of the island where the tall ships anchored to take...
Forks
Forks
ARC176
$24.99  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738575537
Forks is a community rich in logging heritage. Situated on a prairie between the forks of rivers, the town sits amidst the beauty of the vast rain forest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula's West End. Settled in the mid-1870s by pioneer homesteading farmers, Forks's name reflects its...
Cannon Beach
Cannon Beach
ARC139
$29.99  
Hardcover, Deborah Cuyle, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467134347
Cannon Beach is a small town nestled off Highway 101 along the Oregon coast. It has been called one of the Worlds 100 Most Beautiful Places by National Geographic and one of The 100 Best Art Towns in America by author John Villani. Located 80 miles west of Portland and 25 miles south of Astoria,...
Remarkable Oregon Women
Remarkable Oregon Women
ARC141
$21.99  
Paperback, Jennifer Chambers, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467118996
Without the efforts of inspiring, brave women of the past, the progressive and individualistic Oregon we know today might not exist. From native tribes and Oregon Trail pioneers to Victorian suffragists and unlikely politicians, strong female leaders give profound meaning to the state motto,...
Prineville
Prineville
ARC117
$17.50  
Paperback, Steve Lent, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738548722
Early in 1868, Francis "Barney" Prine arrived in the Crooked River Valley of Central Oregon, established a blacksmith shop made of logs, and dispensed spirits from the back of the cabin. Prine saw the potential for development and industry along the lush banks of Crooked River and Ochoco Creek,...
Portsmouth: An Old Town by the Sea
Portsmouth: An Old Town by the Sea
ARC181
$24.99  
Paperback, Russell M. Lawson, 160 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738524276
From Strawbery Banke to the Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth has always been the economic, cultural, and political hub north of Boston. Brightly-colored saltbox homes and towering lighthouses line the churning currents of the Piscataqua, and narrow lanes echo with the footsteps of John Paul Jones, the...
The Navy in Puget Sound
The Navy in Puget Sound
ARC043
$24.99  
Paperback, Cory Graff, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738580814
Jefferson County
Jefferson County
ARC150
$24.99  
Paperback, Jefferson County Historical Society, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9, 9780738548562
Founded by optimistic speculators with dreams of commercial empires that never materialized, Jefferson County is located on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. It stretches from spectacular Pacific Ocean beaches on the west and the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the north to the forested banks of the...
Vanishing Portland
Vanishing Portland
ARC111
$21.99  
Paperback, Ray & Jeanna Bottenberg, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738558301
Portland at the end of World War II was an international port and a powerhouse of the timber and shipbuilding industries. Oregon's largest city grew and changed in the decades that followed, adding new industries and population. It also endured reductions in shipbuilding capacity, a devastating...
COOS COUNTY
COOS COUNTY
ARC086
$24.99  
Paperback, Lise Hull, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738548036
Long before the wreck of the Captain Lincoln in 1852 brought settlers to the North Spit, Native Americans and foreign explorers, including Sir Francis Drake, navigated the inland waterways and Pacific shoreline of what would become Coos County. The deep draft channel, timberfilled landscape,...
Portland Rose Festival
Portland Rose Festival
ARC104
$21.99  
Paperback, George R. Miller, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738596143
At the end of the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905, the president of the Portland Street Fair and Carnival Association, E.W. Rowe, presented the idea of an annual festival to Portland mayor Harry Lane. From that idea came the first Rose Festival, called the Rose Carnival and Fiesta, held June...
Bend
Bend
ARC115
$21.99  
Paperback, Deschutes County Historical Society, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738571843
Bend, astride the Deschutes River at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range, got its name from a place on the river that runs through it. Pioneer travelers called the place Farewell Bend because it was where they had their last view of the double bend in the river that afforded a good place to...
Port Orchard
Port Orchard
ARC179
$21.99  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738589220
The town of Sidney was platted in 1886 by Frederick Stevens and contained a pottery works, shingle mill, and sawmill by 1889. The surrounding thick forests and lack of roads meant the area was accessible only by water. The year 1889 also saw the building of the first wharf, allowing numerous...
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
ARC180
$23.99  
Paperback, William R. Stein, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467126120
Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island in Washington State has a long and storied history that began in 1942 and continues to the present day. Tucked away on an island that is its namesake, NAS Whidbey was originally conceptualized as a small support base for an existing air station in nearby...
Ocean Shores
Ocean Shores
ARC165
$24.99  
Paperback, Gene Woodwick, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9 inches, 9780738580456
Ocean Shores was the newest city in Washington for nearly 40 years, but for centuries before it had been a place of permanent occupation and food gathering for Native American tribes and a place for sea otter hunters, pioneers, and settlers to reach the interior of the Olympic Peninsula. Before...
Bandon
Bandon
ARC134
$24.99  
Paperback, Robert Miller, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738596617
Named for a founding settler's beloved Irish hometown, Bandon is one of the most picturesque cities on the Oregon coast, located where the smooth and deep waters of the Coquille River meet the Pacific Ocean. Bandon rose to commercial prominence as an exporter of lumber, minerals, agriculture,...
Iditarod
Iditarod
ARC102
$21.99  
Paperback, Tricia Brown, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467131049
For sled dogracing fans worldwide, the most important calendar day is the first Saturday in March, when teams convene for the start of mushings Superbowlthe Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race®. Every year, as it has since 1973, this ultimate challenge begins in the states most populated city,...
Portland's Slabtown
Portland's Slabtown
ARC108
$21.99  
Paperback, Mike Ryerson, Norm Gholston & Tracy J. Prince, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738596297
In Portland's first decades, the northwest side remained dense forests. Native Americans camped and Chinese immigrants farmed around Guild's Lake. In the 1870s, Slabtown acquired its unusual name when a lumber mill opened on Northrup Street. The mill's discarded log edges were a cheap source of...
THE DORY FLEET OF PACIFIC CITY
THE DORY FLEET OF PACIFIC CITY
ARC079
$24.99  
Paperback, Jeanna Rosenbalm Bottenberg, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738558134
With its smooth, sandy beach, the quiet coastal town of Pacific City, on the coast of Oregon's Tillamook County, is the perfect home for a unique group of boats. The Pacific City dory fleet has a proud history spanning more than 100 years. Nestled in the natural shelter provided by Cape Kiwanda,...
OREGON'S COVERED BRIDGES
OREGON'S COVERED BRIDGES
ARC080
$24.99  
Paperback, Bill Cockrell, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738558189
Rugged individuals armed with hand tools, sweat, and ambition began building covered bridges in Oregon during the mid-1850s. These bridge builders often camped out at remote sites, living off the land or contracting with local farmers for food. Early owners of covered bridges financed...
Sequim-Dungeness Valley
Sequim-Dungeness Valley
ARC143
$24.99  
Paperback, Katherine Vollenweider, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467134040
Mastodons roamed the plains of Sequim and Dungeness in the years following the recession of the Cordilleran ice sheets. Millennia later, the villages of S’Klallam were home to those who saw settlers disembarking on the periphery of coastal wilderness. Ancient stands of spruce, cedar, and fir...
NORTH BEND
NORTH BEND
ARC084
$24.99  
Paperback, Dick & Judy Wagner, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738581354
Early settlers, driven by greed and a sense of entitlement, and sanctioned by their government, took Coos Indian lands without compensation. Asa Simpson purchased land at the north bend of Coos Bay from settlers. He wanted his company town, including a sawmill and shipyard, to remain small, but...
Historic Baker City: Oregon
Historic Baker City: Oregon
ARC156
$21.99  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738520704
To reach points of commerce for gold assaying or buying supplies, miners from the gold mining boom town of Auburn followed the Oregon Trail east or north. Where the pioneers entered Baker Valley from the gold fields, Baker City sprang up as the county seat of Baker County, named after Colonel...
Portland's Pearl District
Portland's Pearl District
ARC107
$21.99  
Paperback, Christopher S. Gorsek, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738593241
The Pearl District, located in Portland's northwest province, was originally home to timber, lakes, and streams and was occupied by Native Americans. With the arrival of pioneers, its landscape gave way to an industrial scene, which quickly included the railroad. Trains delivered countless cars...
Portland Fire & Rescue
Portland Fire & Rescue
ARC105
$21.99  
Paperback, Brian K. Johnson, Don Porth, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738548838
Firefighting in Portland boasts many proud traditions and a long and storied history. In 1851, Col. Thomas Dryer, editor of the Oregonian newspaper, decided that it was in the best interest of the city to establish a firefighting force, and with that, he founded the Pioneer Fire Engine Company...
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
ARC138
$21.99  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738520902
From the inauspicious beginnings in 1884 of a town named Bug, the two communities of Sedro and Woolley grew together, consolidated in 1898 by a lifeline of three railways: the Seattle & Northern, Seattle & International, and Fairhaven & Southern. Nestled in the beautiful Skagit...
Washington's Cranberry Coast
Washington's Cranberry Coast
ARC178
$23.99  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467129893
For 100 miles along the western edge of Washington State, an unusual agricultural community hugs the Pacific shoreline. Bogs of bright cranberries stretch from the Long Beach Peninsula at the mouth of the Columbia River north to Grayland, Ocean Shores, and Copalis Crossing. Here, along this...
Washington National Guard
Washington National Guard
ARC177
$21.99  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467129855
The Washington National Guard boasts a rich and illustrious history. From Neah Bay to Asotin and from Spokane to Grays Harbor, citizen soldiers and airmen have served and sacrificed in both local communities and exotic places: Spokane and Luzon, Whidbey Island and Calexico, American Lake and...
Port Townsend
Port Townsend
ARC023
$21.99  
Paperback, Jefferson County Historical Society, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9, 9780738556222
On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Puget Sound, the Port Townsend of the 1850s was perfectly situated for sailing vessels. By 1880, thousands of ships from all over the world were passing through. Optimistic investors sought fortunes in shipping, logging, lumber mills, and...
Salem
Salem
ARC132
$24.99  
Paperback, Tom Fuller & Christy Van Heukelem, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738571393
Long before the city of Salem got its name, the lush valley was a favorite winter camping location for the Kalapuya tribe. Jason Lee first ventured to Oregon in 1834, at the invitation of Northwest tribes, creating a mission and a settlement here. Native Americans called it “Chemeketa.” William...
Olympic Mountains
Olympic Mountains
ARC044
$24.99  
Paperback, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738580227
The Olympic Mountains rise up from the sea with moss-draped forests growing right to the water's edge. Glaciers crown steep slopes while alpine meadows and lush valleys teem with elk, deer, cougars, bears, and species known nowhere else on earth. The Olympic National Park was created in 1938 to...
Hood Canal
Hood Canal
ARC153
$24.99  
Paperback, Mike Fredson, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9, 9780738548012
Fjord-like Hood Canal channels beneath the snowcapped Olympic National Park, creating a summer paradise of warm days and inspiring scenery as well as a haven for marine life and watercraft. For eons, Twana Indians crisscrossed in canoes that sliced through water like salmon. The canal’s first...
Langley
Langley
ARC060
$21.99  
Paperback, Robert E. Waterman, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738596006
The town of Langley, tagged “Village by the Sea,” is perched on a low bluff near the southern end of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Town founder Jacob Anthes first purchased land here at age 15, helped plat the town in 1891, and built a wharf. As new families arrived, First Street...
Leavenworth
Leavenworth
ARC149
$21.99  
Paperback, Rose Kinney-Holck & Upper Valley Museum at Leavenworth, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738581972
Leavenworth, located in the central Cascades of Washington state, was once known as Icicle, and has been home to Native Americans, settlers, miners, railroad workers, and loggers. The native tribes came to this pristine and bountiful area to hunt game and fish for salmon. The promise of gold...
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