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"The story of the land in the Northwest flows from the cataclysmic ice-age floods. So it only follows that the stories of the people in this terrain are inextricably linked to the aftereffects of that great deluge. These are the genesis stories of a region. Included are the controversy over the provenance and ownership of a meteor that fell to earth in rural Oregon; the mystery of the aurora borealis as observed by 18th-century explorer David Thompson;...
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“Company town.” The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that flourished well into the twentieth century. This new edition updates the status of the surviving towns and how they have changed in the fifteen years since...
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[2015]
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349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Carved into a rock overlooking the Columbia River stands the arresting image of Tsagigla'lal, or "She Who Watches," an ancient female chief. As the Wishram people recount, when men replaced women in positions of power, Tsagigla'lal was turned to stone by Coyote so that she could forever guide her community and guard its development. Using the story of She Who Watches as her guide, Armitage shows that even though women were barred from positions of...
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The story of David Douglas, the premier botanical explorer in the Pacific Northwest and other areas of western North America. Douglas' discoveries include hundreds of western plants--most notably the Douglas Fir. The Collector tracks Douglas, from his humble birth in Scotland in 1799 to his botanical training under the famed William Jackson Hooker to his adventures in North America discovering "exotic" new plants for the English and European market....
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c1998
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210 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
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A native of Georgia, Herb Crisler was sent to the Olympic Peninsula by the United States Army in 1918. Captivated by the Peninsula, Herb decided to stay. By 1930 he had become a legend because of mountaineering and motion-picture achievements. His movies of the Olympic back country and its wildlife greatly influenced public support for the creation of Olympic National Park in 1938. He and his wife, Lois, spent two decades filming wilderness few people...
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c1988
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xiii, 248 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Washington, Idaho, and Oregon were generally in the mainstream of the parks movement, but each of their histories is unique. Taken together, they help define the nature and limitations of regionalism in the Northwest and provide a window on political and social developments of this century.
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