Catalog of British Columbiana and Pacific Northwest Americana

Encyclopedia Cascadia Catalog contains book titles of mostly non-fiction Pacific Northwest Coast of North America Titles (primarially British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon and Washington State) in an easy-to-understand title catalog. If you see a link with this badge ONLINE CIRC it means that there is an online institution that provides free access to that title. In some cases there may be more than one institution hosting the title digitally.


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Juan Pérez on the northwest coast six documents of his expedition in 1774 by H. K. Beals

Juan Pérez on the Northwest Coast: Six Documents of His Expedition in 1774, translated and annotated by Herbert K. Beals, presents the first English translations of primary records from the earliest European voyage to reach the Pacific Northwest coast. The book compiles diaries and firsthand accounts from Pérez, his second-in-command Estéban José Martínez, and the Catholic priests aboard the Spanish frigate Santiago during their seven-month expedition. These translated documents offer vivid details of the crew's navigation along the British Columbia coastline and their unprecedented early encounters and trade with Indigenous peoples, including the Haida and Nuu-chah-nulth. By reviving these long-ignored archival materials from Mexico City and Madrid, the book restores a crucial chapter of Spanish maritime history that was largely overshadowed by later British exploration.

xxvii, 270 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.

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1989

Across the Olympic Mountains the Press Expedition, 1889-90 by Robert L. Wood

In 1889 Washington's then governor, Elisha Ferry, called on men of adventure to cross the Olympic Mountains, a range shrouded in mystery. The Seattle Press, the state's primary newspaper, stepped up to the challenge, sponsoring the Press Expedition.And soon departed a band of men into the mountains during one of the worst winters in recorded history.

220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

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The March of the mounted riflemen first United States military expedition to travel the full length of the Oregon Trail from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver, May to October, 1849 : as recorded in the journals of Major Osborne Cross and George Gibbs and the official report of Colonel Loring by Osborne Cross, George Gibbs, William Wing Loring, Raymond W. Settle

The March Of The Mounted Riflemen, First published in 1940, is important as the only complete record of one of the longest marches ever made

378 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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1989

We claimed this land Portland's pioneer settlers by Eugene E. Snyder

A collection of biographical sketches profiling the 212 pioneers who settled the land that is now Portland, Oregon

xxv, 289 pages : maps, portraits ; 23 cm

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1989

Not on a silver platter settling the Willamette Valley and Salem, Oregon, 1858-1904 by Beatrice L. Bliss White

"The Adams family's new life in Oregon, the Territory and the new state."

498 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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1989

Bayocean the Oregon town that fell into the sea by Bert Webber, Margie Webber

This documentary shows the erosion that took place in Bayocean, Oregon with dozens of historic and current photographs, maps, unique cartoons, bibliography, index. The book also Salishan, Nestucca, Cape Lookout State Park, Newport and Jump-Off Joe, the Southern Oregon Coast, Washington's "wash-away" beach, the total destruction of Cape Showalter, and other places.

vi, 206 pages ; 22 cm

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1989

One hundred years of the "waterland" community a history of Des Moines, Washington by Richard T. Kennedy, Grechen F. Schmidt

316 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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1989

With angels to the rear an informal portrait of early Meadowdale by Delmar H. Caryl

163 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

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1989

Give me Liberty by Roy F. Mayo

45 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

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1989

Remembered drums a history of the Puget Sound Indian War by J. A. Eckrom

xii, 188, [3] pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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1989

Mercer Island heritage by Judy Gellatly

vi, 185 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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1989

Sine die a guide to the Washington State legislative process by Edward D. Seeberger

This 1997 edition of Sine Die is a completely new book. Since the first edition of Sine Die was published in 1987, there have been dramatic changes in the Washington State Legislature and in state politics. Limits have been placed on campaign contributions and reporting requirements are expanded; ethics laws were passed following revelations of improper use of caucus staff; Initiative 601 was passed by the voters imposing limitations on state taxing and spending powers; the legislative process has been computerized and information is now easily and quickly accessible electronically to all; and term limits, passed in 1992, start taking their toll on state legislators in 1998. Even more significant, there has been a gender revolution in the legislature. Women are on the verge of having an equal place in numbers and power and are having a dramatic effect on the legislative climate and on state policy. Sine Die is a clear and up-to-date description of how the Washington State Legislature works. Presenting substantially more information on women in the legislature, the role of the governor, and the various origins of legislation, the 1997 edition explains the process by which thousands of proposed laws are introduced each year and are culled down to the approximately twenty percent that are eventually enacted.

xiii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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1989

Origins of Pierce County place names by Gary Fuller Reese

ix, 142 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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1989

Campfire tales of eastern Idaho Volume I by Louis J. Clements

117 leaves ; 28 cm

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1989

University of Idaho--then, now, tomorrow the heart of a hundred by Keith C. Petersen

47 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm

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1989

Renton, where the water took wing an illustrated history by David M. Buerge, Cynthia Barker, Nada Oakley

135 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm

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1989

Dictionary of Oregon history by Howard McKinley Corning

281 pages ; 26 cm

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1989

The Russian American colonies, 1798-1867 a documentary record by Basil Dmytryshyn, E. A. P. Crownhart-Vaughan, Thomas Vaughan

xci, 590 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

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1989

Kamloops meeting of the waters : an illustrated history by Ken Favrholdt, Lynne Schuyler Bracewell, Greater Kamloops Chamber of Commerce

111 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

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1989

The coal coast the history of coal mining in B.C., 1835-1900 by Eric Newsome

195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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1989

Henry J. Kaiser builder in the modern American West by Mark S. Foster, William H. Goetzmann

In the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Lee Iacocca and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser rose from lower-middle-class origins to become an enormously wealthy entrepreneur, building roads, bridges, dams, and housing. He established giant businesses in cement, aluminum, chemicals, steel, health care, and tourism. During World War II, his companies built cargo planes and Liberty ships. After the war, he manufactured the Kaiser-Frazer automobiles. Along the way, he also became a major force in the development of the western United States, including Hawaii. Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West is the first biography of this remarkable man. Drawing on a wealth of archival material never before utilized, Mark Foster paints an evenhanded portrait of a man of driving ambition and integrity, perhaps the ultimate "can-do" capitalist. He covers Kaiser's entire life (1882-1967), emphasizing many business ventures. He demonstrates that Kaiser was the prototypical "frontier" entrepreneur who often used government and union support to tame the "wilderness."

xiv, 358 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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1989

A white man's province British Columbia politicians and Chinese and Japanese immigrants, 1858-1914 by Patricia Roy

A White Man’s Province examines how British Columbians changed their attitudes towards Asian immigrants from one of toleration in colonial times to vigorous hostility by the turn of the century and describes how politicians responded to popular cries to halt Asian immigration and restrict Asian activities in the province. White workingmen objected to Asian sojourning habits, to their low living standards and wages, and to their competition for jobs in specific industries. Because employers and politicians initially supported Asian immigrants, early manifestations of antipathy often appeared just as another dispute between capital and labour. But as their number increased, complaints about Asians became widespread, and racial characteristics became the nucleus of such terms as a “white man’s province” – a “catch phrase” which, as Roy notes, “covered a wide variety of fears and transcended particular economic interests.” The Chinese were the chief targets of hostility in the nineteenth century; by the twentieth, the Japanese, more economically ambitious and backed by a powerful mother country, appeared more threatening. After Asian disenfranchisement in the 1870s, provincial politicians, freed from worry about the Asian vote, fueled and exploited public prejudices. The Asian question also became a rallying cry for provincial rights when Ottawa disallowed anti-Asian legislation. Although federal leaders such as John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier shared a desire to keep Canada a “white man's country,” they followed a policy of restraint in view of imperial concerns. The belief that whites should be superior, as Roy points out, was then common throughout the Western world. Many of the arguments used in British Columbia were influenced by anti-Asian sentiments and legislation emanating from California, and from Australia and other British colonies. Drawing on almost every newspaper and magazine report published in the province before 1914, and on government records and private manuscripts, Roy has produced a revealing historical account of the complex basis of racism in British Columbia and of the contribution made to the province in these early years by its Chinese and Japanese residents.

xvii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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1989

The Fernwood files by John J. Ellis, Charles Lillard

125 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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1989

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