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Book cover for Alaska Geographic Society: Russian America

Russian America

Alaska Geographic Society
Paperback - $24.95

Alaska Geographic is an award-winning series that presents the people, places, and wonders of Alaska to the world. Over the past 30 years, Alaska Geographic has earned its reputation as the publication for those who love Alaska. The series boasts mor ...

Book cover for Gerald J. Baldasty: Vigilante Newspapers

Vigilante Newspapers : A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Murder in the Northwest

Gerald J. Baldasty
Paperback - $37.95



Book cover for Tony Bamonte: Spokane and the Inland Northwest

Spokane and the Inland Northwest : Historical Images

Tony Bamonte
Hardcover - $73.95

A unique coffee-table pictorial history book that will become a treasured keepsake for anyone who enjoys old photographs or has an interest in Northwest history. This book offers the largest published collection of early images from the Inland Northw ...

Book cover for Jean Barman: Leaving Paradise

Leaving Paradise : Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898

Jean Barman
Hardcover - $90.95

Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed ...

Book cover for Warner Blake: Early Snohomish

Early Snohomish

Warner Blake
Paperback - $32.95

This riverside city was established when a rumor surfaced that a military road would be crossing over the Snohomish River. The road never materialized. By 1866, the mother city of the new county was little
more than a clearing in the woods, offer ...

Book cover for Peter Blecha: Music in Washington

Music in Washington : Seattle and Beyond

Peter Blecha
Paperback - $32.95

For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest has been making music history. In this new retrospective, rare photographs evoke the musical memories of days gone by, from the earliest 19th-century brass bands to Roaring Twenties jazz combos, 1940s hi ...

Book cover for Ray Bottenberg: Bridges of Portland

Bridges of Portland

Ray Bottenberg
Paperback - $32.95

In the 1920s and 1930s, Oregons legendary bridge engineer Conde B. McCullough designed a first-rate collection of aesthetic bridges on the Oregon Coast Highway to enhance an already dramatic and beautiful landscape. The six largest of these, at Gold ...

Book cover for Ray Bottenberg: Grand Coulee Dam

Grand Coulee Dam

Ray Bottenberg
Paperback - $32.95

Washingtons Grand Coulee is an ice-age channel that carried the Columbia River when ice dammed its main course. Grand Coulee was long recognized as an ideal place to store Columbia River water to irrigate the arid but fertile Columbia Basin. A dam wa ...

Book cover for Ray Bottenberg: Vanishing Portland Vanishing Portland

Vanishing Portland Vanishing Portland

Ray Bottenberg
Novelty - $14.95

Portland saw unprecedented growth and change during the 20th century, change that sometimes swept away parts of its vibrant history. These images illustrate the people, the events, and the everyday scenes that make up Portlandas story.

Book cover for Ray Bottenberg: Vanishing Portland Vanishing Portland

Vanishing Portland Vanishing Portland

Ray Bottenberg
Paperback - $32.95

Portland at the end of World War II was an international port and a powerhouse of the timber and shipbuilding industries. Oregonas largest city grew and changed in the decades that followed, adding new industries and population. It also endured reduc ...

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