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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 But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that flourished well into the twentieth century.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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2013
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Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest is a guidebook to the best boomtowns of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Once thriving centers for mining, fishing, logging, and national defense, these abandoned camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Nowadays, these ghost towns are some of the best places to travel to, filled with fun things to do and see. Ghost town expert Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to know
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c2010
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xi, 195 p. ; 19 cm.
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Personal and passionate essays written by independent booksellers and librarians about living in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington--slices of life from an area bound by weather, an independent streak, and strains of American history as wild as its geography.
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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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