In Making the Grade, thirteen former Kittitas country schoolmarms fondly reflect on teaching in rural locales between 1914 and 1942. The classes were usually small, but frequently included pupils of
Hockaday, a journalist in Seattle, describes the work in Washington and Oregon during the first decade of the 20th century of landscape architect John Charles Olmsted, stepson of the legendary Frederi
Ezra Meeker braved the Oregon Trail in 1852, eventually becoming a hop farmer and broker. He platted the town of Puyallup, Washington and served as its first mayor. By the 1880s he had built a fortune
Young, ambitious, and college-educated, Reginald Heber Thomson wanted to make a big impression when leaving California in 1881. Seattle brimmed with opportunity, but when his steamer docked at Yesler
Born to T'siyiyak, a champion horse racer, and Com-mus-ni, the daughter of legendary Chief Wlyawllkt, Kamiakin from an early age helped tend his family's expanding herds. He wintered with relatives i
Believing that involvement by ordinary lay citizens remains critical to addressing the challenges of nuclear waste cleanup in the United States, Power (a recent senior policy advisor in the Nuclear Wa
In the early 1800's, only Native Americans, fur trappers, military expeditions, and missionaries inhabited Central Oregon. Later, the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 spurred a homestead boom that spar
Presents 38 original personal accounts of their wartime experiences in battle, at home, and dealing with the aftermath of war, by women with diverse political loyalties and in diverse geopolitical con
Recent immigrants to the United States usually cannot read or speak English. Few are educated; some struggle to sign their own name. Yet they are able to do things many Americans have forgotten: to f
The catalog consists of brief citations that reflect all the titles from the library of writers Leonard (1880-1969) and Virginia (1882-1941) Woolf held by the Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collec
Independent scholar Hobbs presents a history of the Horace and Susie Cayton family from the Civil War to the present. Members of this influential African American family published newspapers, authored
Environmentalists are among the readers that will find this a gripping tale of the Air Force's efforts, beginning in 1989, to procure the Owyhee Canyonlands in southwest Idaho as a bombing range. Nokk
