Published by regional presses, The White Tide by Ruth Dunbar explores the dramatic social and environmental transformations accompanying early settlement and resource exploitation in the Pacific Northwest. The book traces the rapid influx of pioneers, industrial loggers, and speculators whose arrival fundamentally altered indigenous landscapes and traditional ways of life across the region's river valleys and coastal frontiers. Through narrative character studies and historical context, the text highlights the heavy human and ecological costs borne by a rapidly commercialized wilderness. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the metaphor of a "white tide" captures the overwhelming, impersonal force of frontier expansion; settlement was experienced not merely as a gradual migration, but as an encroaching, high-tide wave that permanently submerged native ecosystems and historical land-use patterns under an unyielding tide of industrial modernity.