Chasing dreams of a governorship, two viable and sophisticated candidates---Dino Rossi and Christine Gregoire---ran for Washington's top statewide post on November 2, 2004. The election resulted in a
Taflinger's memoir, originally written for her children, is an account of French family life and a child's, and then a girl's, growing up in that warmth and security. At age twelve, her prospects dark
In mid-1900s Washington, most orchardists grew apples for the fresh fruit trade, and had little access to markets for their low-grade leftovers. Immense piles of culls were left to rot or dumped into
Shape (1867-1960) was from a prosperous Wisconsin brewing family and had travelled and studied in Europe. He left his wife and children in New York to search for gold in Alaska, 1897-98, and left the
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
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
Three thousand years ago, Native Americans on Washington's Olympic Peninsula occupied a key seasonal fishing camp on a bar of the Hoko River, close to the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Ov
The Witch of Kodakery is the ground-breaking biography of Myra Albert Wiggins, the successful early 20th-century Oregon photographic artist with connections to Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession
Into the untamed vastness of the Bitterroot mountains go three young New York men, their guide, and a camp cook. This is to be the adventure of a lifetime, but it is already September. Ahead of the hu
Karl May's German-language novel of the American West has been a perennial favorite in Europe since it first appeared in 1892. The daring adventures of the German-born frontiersman "Old Shatterhand" a