Catalog of British Columbiana and Pacific Northwest Americana

In The Impact of the White Man, Wilson Duff presents a clear and comprehensive summary of the effects of immigrant settlement on the population, culture, economy and religion of British Columbia's First Peoples. First published in 1964, this book has stood the test of time. With more than 15,000 copies in print, it remains an important anthropological and historical record up to the 1960s. Duff wrote The Impact of the White Man as the first of three volumes on the history of the First Peoples in B.C. He never completed the other two volumes, but this book, on its own, has become a classic of anthropology. The new edition retains the author's original text and features more photographs, an appendix updating the names and territories of First Nations in B.C., a new list of recommended reading, and an index

184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

"Alan Minskoff's The Idaho Traveler is a field day for road trippers, a foodie's feast tour and every wanderer's dream-trek through the great Gem State. Minskoff shows us the route down the Idaho Pie Trail, meandering from the Wayside Café in Heyburn, Idaho, to the Pie Safe Bakery and Kitchen in Deary. Along the way, we meet up with locavores and librarians, rural mayors and councilwomen. This book is the holistic testament to the human, the historic, and the gustatory delights of the state of Idaho we have all been waiting for"-- Provided by publisher

293 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

The Idaho Story, compiled by the Idaho Poets and Writers Guild, is a rich anthology that chronicles the localized history, folklore, and pioneer experiences across the diverse landscapes of the Gem State. The collection's narratives span the rugged topography of this inland Pacific Northwest territory, moving from the deep, forested canyons of the Salmon River down to the sweeping, arid expanses of the southern Snake River Plain. By detailing daily life in the isolated mining camps of the Owyhee Mountains and the remote agricultural settlements of the northern panhandle, the book heavily maps the challenging terrain early inhabitants had to navigate. Ultimately, this collaborative work provides a vivid geographical portrait of how diverse communities adapted to and shaped the formidable interior environments of Idaho.

352 pages : illustrations, portraits

216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Takuichi Fujii (1891-1964) left Japan in 1906 to make his home in Seattle, where he established a business, started a family, and began his artistic practice. When war broke out between the United States and Japan, he and his family were incarcerated along with the more than 100,000 ethnic Japanese located on the West Coast. Sent to detention camps at Puyallup, Washington, and then Minidoka in Idaho, Fujii documented his daily experiences in words and art. "The Hope of Another Spring" reveals the rare find of a large and heretofore unknown collection of art produced during World War II. The centerpiece of the collection is Fujiis illustrated diary that historian Roger Daniels has called the most remarkable document created by a Japanese American prisoner during the wartime incarceration. Barbara Johns presents Takuichi Fujiis life story and his artistic achievements within the social and political context of the time. Sandy Kita, the artists grandson, provides translations and an introduction to the diary. This is a significant contribution to Asian American studies, American and regional history, and art history

xi, 334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

The history of the Portland District Corps of Engineers, 1871-1969 examines the massive federal infrastructure projects, river channel engineering, and large-scale hydro-electric transformation situated across the sprawling, dramatically varied macro-geography of the Columbia River basin and the Oregon coast. Richmond and Bangert detail how the region's formidable hydrologic topography—specifically the treacherous, shifting sandbars of the Columbia River mouth, the violent, whitewater rapids of the Columbia River Gorge cutting through the Cascade Range, and the sprawling drainage networks of the Willamette and Snake river systems—strictly dictated the margins of hazardous maritime commerce, devastating seasonal floods, and centralized federal intervention. By mapping the Corps' decades-long campaign to tame these volatile waterways through the construction of monumental jetties, deep-water dredging networks, and colossal multipurpose dams like Bonneville and The Dalles, the narrative highlights how this specific immense riverine geography anchored a profoundly engineered, federally managed regional economy. Ultimately, this institutional and engineering record serves as a macro-level spatial history, demonstrating how the severe hydrological hazards, immense topographic barriers, and vital commercial water corridors of this Pacific Northwest landscape fundamentally shaped the highly controlled, hydro-industrial character of the modern Columbia basin.

[4], i, [2], 274, A1-16 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm

288 pages : illustrations, map (on lining papers) ; 29 cm

The history of Terrace examines the pioneer settlement, timber-driven economy, and critical transportation development situated within the broad, flat river benches of northwestern British Columbia's Skeena River valley. Asante details how the region's imposing mountainous macro-geography—specifically the steep, heavily timbered slopes of the Coast Mountains, the powerful, navigable currents of the Skeena River, and the rare, fertile alluvial terraces that gave the town its name—strictly dictated the margins of early homesteading, large-scale logging operations, and transcontinental railway routing. By mapping the transformation of this critical riverine chokepoint from indigenous Tsimshian trading corridors into a bustling, rail-connected timber hub highly dependent on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and riverboat transit, the narrative highlights how this specific valley geography anchored a profoundly transit- and resource-dependent economy. Ultimately, this civic record serves as a localized spatial history, demonstrating how the immense mountain barriers, vital hydrological lifelines, and unique flatland benches of this Pacific Northwest interior fundamentally shaped the highly rugged, transit-bound character of early Terrace.

243 pages illustrations 22 cm

James Bergquist is telecommunications a living on Stuart Island. married to retired engineer He is Linda Ericksen Bergquist, a descendent of an early Stuart Island family. Jim and Linda have spent many years compiling historical information on Stuart Island and its people. Stuart Island is a favorite destination for boaters. They visit the marine state park and walk the roads to the lighthouse without experiencing the rich history of this remote island. This book documents the early settlers arriving on the island and their struggles to live in this remote corner of the United States. Stuart Islanders were farmers, fishermen, loggers, lighthouse keepers, and school teachers. Each has a story to tell. This book is a work in progress as there is much more history hidden in descendents' closets just waiting to be discovered. James Bergquist: August 22, 1943 - November 26, 2024

183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The following pages are devoted, principally, to the description and history of the portion of North America bordering on the Pacific Ocean, between the 40th and the 54th parallels of latitude, wisich is traversed and in a great iueasure drained, by the River Columbia, and to which the name of OREGON is now usually applied.

xviii, 492, 7 pages

The text is divided into 2 parts, the first presents a concise history of the Oregon territory and an impassioned argument for the United States to lay claim to the region. Part II of the text contains the first person narrative account of Peter H. Burnett (unnamed) of the 1843 emigration. Burnett later became the first civil governor of California. An Appendix on pp. 114-127 contains the diplomatic correspondence, letters, and treaties between Russia, Spain, Great Britain and the United States relevant to Part I.

127 pages, [1] folded leaf : map ; 22 cm

There have been many histories written on the great movements of American History and most states have had their histories, but almost endless localities have been neglected. Yet it is in the localities that we find the great stories and problems of the states, nations, and world in their embryonic stages. There is no better place to begin a realization of the heritage of America than in the story of one's own locality. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to write this paper upon the history of Montpelier, Idaho.

i, 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Published in 1915 by Arthur C. Saunders, The History of Bannock County, Idaho provides a localized chronicle of southeastern Idaho’s transition from a vital fur-trading crossroads to a booming agricultural and railroad hub. The volume traces the evolution of the region from the early days of the historic Fort Hall outpost through the aggressive expansion of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, which cemented the city of Pocatello as the undisputed commercial gateway of the state. Typical of early twentieth-century civic literature, the text meticulously documents the commercial achievements of white pioneers while framing the systematic reduction of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation as a necessary, triumphant precondition for modern progress. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the narrative explicitly weds regional prosperity to the legal dispossession of Indigenous lands; by celebrating the federal government's opening of Shoshone-Bannock reservation tracts to white settlement as the county’s crowning economic victory, Saunders illustrates how early frontier boosterism actively conflated the bureaucratic erasure of Native sovereignty with righteous industrial destiny.

143 pages 20 cm

The History of Baker County, Oregon, compiled and published in 1986 by the Baker County Historical Society, is a comprehensive local history and genealogical reference detailing the development of this expansive region in northeastern Oregon. The volume chronicles the county's defining eras, from its roots along the Oregon Trail and the transformative 1860s gold rush that birthed early boomtowns like Auburn, to its enduring agricultural and timber industries. Ultimately, featuring extensive pioneer biographies, community profiles, and an every-name index, it serves as an invaluable, community-driven resource for researchers and descendants seeking to understand the grassroots heritage and resilient pioneer legacy that shaped Eastern Oregon.

360 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Jean Hazeltine’s The historical and regional geography of the Willapa Bay area, Washington provides a comprehensive spatial and economic history of the expansive, resource-rich estuary originally charted by early pioneers as Shoalwater Bay. Set against the vast tidal mudflats, cranberry bogs, and dense coastal rainforests of the Willapa Hills, the text details how the pre-existing maritime networks of the Chinook and Willapa peoples were eventually superseded by waves of pioneer oystermen and industrial loggers. By tracing the collaborative physical labor required to harvest the bay's famous oyster beds and extract the surrounding timber, Hazeltine reveals how isolated, water-bound settlements like Oysterville, South Bend, and Raymond relied on tight-knit maritime and kinship alliances to navigate the boom-and-bust cycles of Pacific coastal trade. Ultimately, this geographic history documents how the cooperative industrialization of the region's unique tidal ecology successfully transformed a remote coastal inlet into a highly organized, enduring economic engine that supplied the booming nineteenth- and twentieth-century markets of the West Coast.

The hidden Northwest examines the early exploration, cultural perception, and literary rendering situated across the vast, heavily obscured coastal and interior landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. Cantwell details how the region's formidable and often deceptive macro-geography—specifically the impenetrable, perpetually damp temperate rainforests, the chronic, low-hanging coastal marine layers, and the immense, isolating mountain barriers—strictly dictated the margins of early Euro-American exploration, pioneer settlement, and the resulting sense of profound regional isolation. By mapping how early maritime navigators and overland pioneers repeatedly bypassed or were overwhelmed by these shrouded coastlines and deeply shadowed river valleys, the narrative highlights how this specific obscuring geography anchored a profound psychological and cultural detachment from the rest of the expanding nation. Ultimately, this literary and historical study serves as a macro-level spatial history, demonstrating how the immense botanical scale, chronic atmospheric obscurity, and severe overland isolation of this Pacific Northwest landscape fundamentally shaped the deeply introspective, historically overlooked character of the region.

335 pages : maps ; 24 cm

The tallest species of spruce, hemlock, fir, cedar, and pine trees on earth coexist in the old growth of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon’s Cascade Range. Set aside as a living laboratory by the U.S. Forest Service in 1948, the 16,000 acres represent a vital scientific endeavor: the long-term study of a single contained ecosystem. Here, for the first time, researchers from an enormous range of disciplines—forest scientists, botanists, entomologists, wildlife ecologists, soil biologists, and others—have assembled to examine the role of every working element in the life of a forest. In The Hidden Forest, veteran science writer Jon Luoma offers an absorbing account of how these scientists came to recognize the importance of natural forest ecosystems and how their research is revolutionizing forest management. Luoma takes readers into the hidden forest where researchers have discovered a host of species previously unknown to science, and interactions in the forest ecosystem that no one previously imagined. He describes projects dealing with the forest canopy, rotting logs, insects, fungi, wildlife, streams, and the effects of flood, fire, clear cutting, and volcanic eruption. And he tells the human story behind the research, capturing the shared excitement and wonder of scientific discovery. Along the way, Luoma provides a short course in such complex issues as forest succession, biodiversity, and the politics of forestry. In a new foreword, Jerry Franklin discusses the importance of dedicated, long-term research sites and comments on new discoveries that have emerged from forest ecosystem research since The Hidden Forest was first published.

x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Published in 2009, Charles Hou’s The HBC Fur Brigade-First Nations Trail of 1848-49 examines the historic development and geography of the Hudson's Bay Company's vital trade route connecting the interior of British Columbia to the Pacific coast. The illustrated account details how chief trader Alexander Caulfield Anderson and company men mapped out new pathways between Fort Kamloops and Fort Langley to bypass the treacherous, impassable canyons of the lower Fraser River. Drawing heavily on archival records, the book maps the physical layout of these pack-horse routes and the immense logistical challenges required to sustain them. A keen insight drawn from the text is how it powerfully subverts the traditional corporate narrative of the fur trade; by foregrounding the indispensable geographic knowledge and guidance provided by local First Nations, Hou reveals that the survival and success of these imperial commercial arteries relied entirely on indigenous expertise rather than autonomous European exploration.

32 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm.

"A lively recounting of the tough men and heroic but overworked packhorses who broke open BC to the big business of the 19th century fur trade. Facing a grueling thousand-mile trail, the brigades of the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) pushed onward over mountains and through ferocious river crossings to reach the isolated fur-trading posts. But it wasn’t just the landscape the brigades faced, as First Nations people struggled with the desire to resist, or assist, the fur company’s attempts to build their brigade trails over the Aboriginal trails that led between Indigenous communities, which surrounded the trading posts. Nancy Marguerite Anderson recounts how the devastating Cayuse War of 1847, forced the HBC men over a newly-explored overland trail to Fort Langley. The journey was a disaster-in-waiting."-- Provided by publisher

ix, 316 pages ; 23 cm

"The Hanford Reach is the last free stretch of the river between the McNary and Priest Rapids Dams, a place boasting a varied landscape of floodplains, wetlands, deserts, orchards - and nuclear reactors." "This is not a place that people think to visit. Known primarily for hosting the country's most toxic nuclear outpost, it is public land that barely exists in public consciousness. But because the Reach has been posted off-limits by the military since 1943, this book offers readers a little-seen glimpse into what the Pacific Northwest's arid east was like before the postwar boom." "Zwinger's text, enhanced by Skip Smith's photos, captures the subtleties of the contrasting vistas, just as it makes clear the depth of the radioactive poisoning within the soil and wildlife."--BOOK JACKET

xii, 79 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, 1966-1976 chronicles the late-twentieth-century industrial evolution of maritime commerce and shipping across the sprawling, interconnected inland waterways and treacherous coastal corridors of the Pacific seaboard. Newell and McCurdy detail how the region’s formidable aquatic topography—spanning the deep, protected anchorages of Puget Sound to the storm-battered, shifting sandbars of the Columbia River and the perilous tidal narrows of the Inside Passage—strictly dictated the engineering of specialized tugs, expansive ferry networks, and massive commercial vessels designed to conquer the sheer scale of the North Pacific. By mapping the rapid modernization of regional port infrastructure and the absolute reliance of remote island communities on marine transit to bridge vast expanses of open water, the narrative highlights the relentless logistical efforts required to navigate and extract wealth from this unforgiving marine environment safely. Ultimately, this encyclopedic record serves as a deeply localized spatial history, demonstrating how the complex, demanding hydrography of the Pacific Northwest inherently shaped the enduring resilience of its maritime industries and maintained the physical lifeline of its coastal frontier.

lvii, 36-255 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm

"Ann Stinson grew up on her family's tree farm in southwestern Washington state, on a ridge above the Cowlitz River. After building a life in New York and Portland, she returned home at the age of fifty, when her brother's death from cancer left her manager and co-owner of three hundred acres planted in Douglas fir, western red cedar, and ponderosa pine. The Ground at My Feet is a memoir about loss and grief as well as a portrait of a family, a region, and an industry. Combining personal story and research, Stinson weaves essays, poems, history, and science into a rich and layered account of life in a family forest in the Pacific Northwest. She maps interactions between the land and its people over two centuries: the Cowlitz peoples, homesteaders, and several generations of logging families who have worked the property. She follows her family's logs as they become lumber for fence boards and suburban homes, touring a local cedar mill and traveling with her father to visit mills in Japan. Stinson adds a landowner's voice to conversations about the human tendency to demand more of the land than it can sustain. With its uniquely personal view of the Pacific Northwest's timber and forestry heritage, The Ground at My Feet is an engaging addition to the literature of the landscape and ecology of the West"-- Provided by publisher

152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

The Green Years chronicles the rapid maritime and economic expansion of Washington State's Puget Sound region through the lifelong experiences of pioneer steamboat captain and banker Joshua Green. The narrative centers heavily on Seattle's bustling Elliott Bay, tracing how early "Mosquito Fleet" vessels and Green's famous Black Ball ferry line connected isolated coastal timber towns, the San Juan Islands, and ports as far north as Victoria, British Columbia. As Green transitions from steering steamboats to shaping regional finance, the book maps the commercial transformation of western Washington's deep-water harbors into a major metropolitan hub. Ultimately, the biography provides a vivid geographic snapshot of how vital maritime arteries built the foundational infrastructure of the modern Pacific Northwest coast.

220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Covers the city of Vancouver and the surrounding metropolitan area primarily located in the Greater Vancouver Regional District

xiii, 882 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm

Lewis Green’s The Great Years: Gold Mining in the Bridge River Valley offers an authoritative technical, financial, and spatial history of the Bridge River gold district, which stood as the richest lode gold producer in British Columbia history. Green reconstructs the complex geological formation of the Cadwallader and Hurley river fault systems, examining the corporate development of the Bralorne and Pioneer mines from speculative frontier prospects into dividend-paying industrial giants. The volume details the logistical feats required to construct power plants, all-weather mountain roads, and company-planned residential townsites across Gold Bridge, Bralorne, Brexton, and Ogden. Green analyzes the economic resilience of the district during the Great Depression, the labor politics of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and the technological innovations that enabled deep-vein mining until increasing operating costs and fixed gold prices forced eventual closure.

x, 262 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm