The Nature of Borders

Lissa K Wadewitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the 2013 Hal Rothman Award from the Western History Associati... Lees meer

Shadow Tribe

Andrew H Fisher

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused t... 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

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

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

Henry M. Jackson

Robert G Kaufman

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Henry M. Jackson ranks as one of the great legislators in American history. With a Congressional career spanning the tenure of nine Presidents, Jackso... Lees meer

Shadow Tribe

Andrew H Fisher

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused t... 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

Power & Place in the North American West

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• In Long Day's Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most ... 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

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

Pioneering Death

Peter Boag

• Hardcover | 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

The Atomic West

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• The Manhattan Project--the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb--transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each regi... 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

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

Mills and Markets

Thomas R Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900 Lees meer

The Forging of a Black Community

Quintard Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Through much of the twentieth century, black Seattle was synonymous with the Central District--a four-square-mile section near the geographic center o... 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

A Home for Every Child

Patricia Susan Hart

• Hardcover | 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

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

Death of Celilo Falls

Katrine Barber

• Hardcover | 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 Battle for Butte

Michael P Malone

• Paperback | Engels | Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
• Presents the history of the political economy of Butte and Montana. 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

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