"Collection of essays profiling early Northwest authors and their works, and assessing their place in Washington's literary history"--

What is a home? It can be a room or a whole house. A town, a community or an entire country. It can be a landscape, an ecosystem, a habitat. "Welcoming Home the Sinixt" was originally to be the title of this third in a series of chapbooks about the Sinixt People. But as Marilyn James, appointed spokesperson for Sinixt Nation, and I, a local author, collaboratedin its writing, the words began to take shape as dialogue.The intention became not so much...

"A former Washington State Historical Society director examines the Corps of Discovery's journey after they crossed the Rocky Mountains. He places curious and seemingly inexplicable aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition story into a broader historical context, and reveals how earlier explorers and fur traders influenced the American captains"--

"A natural and environmental history of Mount Rainier National Park and its watersheds and surrounding human communities, with emphasis on Native American people and their millennia-long association with the mountain"--

A survey of the cultural and demographic changes that occurred under the influence of the Hudson's Bay Company in its Colville District, which covered parts of British Columbia, Montana, Idaho and Washington.

"This book recounts John Langlot's career and experiences during the tumultuous period of railroad history between 1960 and 2005. John hired out on the Great Northern at Hillyard in July of 1960, was forced to the W-O in 1961, and worked the line in the early 1960's. The first chapter is about John's life as a boy in Hillyard. The next eight chapters describe John's work on the lines of the Great Northern Railway's Spokane Division as it was from...

An anthology of more than 130 Native American legends representative of many different tribes and organized by geographical regions across the United States. Each legend is introduced with a headnote and many are accompanied by a drawing.