Seattle from the Margins

Megan Asaka

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• The creation of Seattle and the displacement of those who built it From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of Worl... Lees meer

Bringing Indians to the Book

Albert Furtwangler

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• In 1831 a delegation of Northwest Indians reportedly made the arduous journey from the shores of the Pacific to the banks of the Missouri in order to ... Lees meer

Gold Rush Manliness

Christopher Herbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and pro... Lees meer

Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest

Louis Fiset, Gail M. Nomura

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the dive... Lees meer

Atomic Frontier Days

John M Findlay, Bruce W Hevly

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine On the banks of the Pacific Northwest's greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site t... Lees meer

Atomic Frontier Days

John M Findlay, Bruce W Hevly

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine On the banks of the Pacific Northwest's greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site t... Lees meer

Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America

Shelby Scates

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Warren G. Magnuson served as U.S. senator from the state of Washington for six terms. The sheer sweep of his accomplishments is astonishing: authoring... Lees meer

The Rising Tide of Color

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• The Rising Tide of Color challenges familiar narratives of race in American history that all too often present the U.S. state as a benevolent force in... Lees meer

In Defense of Wyam

Katrine Barber

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that th... Lees meer

Seattle from the Margins

Megan Asaka

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• The creation of Seattle and the displacement of those who built it From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of Worl... Lees meer

Death of Celilo Falls

Katrine Barber

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stret... Lees meer

The Forging of a Black Community

Quintard Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early... Lees meer

Trout Culture

Jen Corrinne Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It , trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But a... Lees meer

Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920

Kazuhiro Oharazeki

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, ... Lees meer

Pioneering Death

Peter Boag

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confi... Lees meer

Gold Rush Manliness

Christopher Herbert

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and pro... Lees meer

Power and Place in the North American West

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and uni... Lees meer

Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America

Shelby Scates

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Warren G. Magnuson served as U.S. senator from the state of Washington for six terms. The sheer sweep of his accomplishments is astonishing: authoring... Lees meer

Trout Culture

Jen Corrinne Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It , trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But a... Lees meer

Radical Heritage

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the forty-ninth parallel and the reas... Lees meer

A Home for Every Child

Patricia Susan Hart

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Adoption has been a politically charged subject since the Progressive Era, when it first became an established part of child welfare reform. In A Home... Lees meer

The Battle for Butte

Michael P Malone

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine hi... Lees meer

In Defense of Wyam

Katrine Barber

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that th... Lees meer

Parallel Destinies

John M Findlay, Kenneth S Coates

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• The Canadian West and the American Northwest offer a valuable setting for considering issues of borders and borderlands. The regions contain certain s... Lees meer