Catalog of British Columbiana and Pacific Northwest Americana

Published in local editions by Patricia Lander, Guide to Ferryboats of Puget Sound: Past and Present provides a comprehensive historical and structural inventory of the iconic vessels that have navigated the inland waters of Washington State. The book catalogs a diverse fleet ranging from the early mosquito fleet steamers to the modern auto-ferries that form an indispensable maritime highway across the Salish Sea. Through detailed vessel histories, operational timelines, and archival photographs, the text captures how these floating bridges shaped regional commerce, commuting, and coastal community-building. A keen insight drawn from the work is how Puget Sound ferries function as floating public town squares; by forcing diverse commuters, tourists, and islanders into shared, slow-paced transit, the ferry system preserves a unique communal culture that directly resists the anonymous speed of modern mainland highways.

145 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Established in 1853, Washington remained a Territory until admitted into the Union thirty-six years later in 1889. Few other territories in the American West languished longer in dependent status. Because of a dividing geographical barrier (the Cascade Range) and the lack of an adequate internal transportation system, Washington Territory made little practical sense as a social and economic entity. Western Washington actually was a satellite of San Francisco and Eastern Washington at Portland, until railroads were completed along the Columbia River and, especially, over the Cascades in the mid-1880s. Essentially, Washington was not qualified for statehood until very late in its territorial period when railway tracks finally unified the region. --From publisher's description

[8], 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

This history of British Columbia celebrates an enigmatic and beautiful frontier. At the same time, author Geoffrey Molyneux delivers barbs about the corrupt politicians and bizarre development plans that have threatened to compromise this majestic region. With over 100 photographs and excerpts from writers Douglas Coupland and Terry Glavin, this book provides a short but engaging history of Canada's westernmost province

174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Published by Whitecap Books, Rosemary Neering's A Traveller's Guide to Historic British Columbia serves as an engaging geographical and historical companion that maps the province's rich tapestry of past human endeavors. The book navigates the reader across various regional landscapes—from the gold-rush trails of the Cariboo and the rugged mountain passes of the interior to coastal Indigenous settlements and early European trading posts. By intertwining travel logistics with historical vignettes, anecdotes, and archival context, the text brings physical landmarks and forgotten settlements vividly back to life. A keen insight drawn from the work is how travel guides to historical frontiers function as chronological bridges; by grounding sweeping provincial history in specific, visitable coordinates on a modern map, the book demonstrates that physical travel through British Columbia is inherently an act of temporal exploration across layers of competing human ambitions.

xvii, 334 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

In images and narratives, Native River recreates the untamed Mid-Columbia--the river as it once was, before the building of seven major dams. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, maps, and photographs, many never before published, this finely crafted book focuses on the 350-mile reach of the middle Columbia River from Priest Rapids in south-central Washington to the U.S. Canadian border. William Layman affords each segment of this waterway with its own rich visual documentation, forming a backdrop to many absorbing river stories. -- Amazon

xii, 195 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 x 29 cm

Published by Shorey Book Store and compiled from historical government records by editors including Glen Cameron Adams, Charles E. McChesney, Herbert C. Taylor, and F. A. Hazeltine, Rolls of Certain Indian Tribes in Oregon and Washington compiles critical nineteenth and early twentieth-century federal census rolls and allotment records for Pacific Northwest Indigenous groups. The volume preserves official documentation detailing tribal member names, family lineages, and demographic shifts during an era of aggressive federal assimilation and reservation-boundary reductions. By gathering these scattered archival enumerations into a single reference text, it serves as a vital genealogical and historical ledger for regional tribes. A keen insight drawn from the work is how bureaucratic instruments like federal census rolls acted as legal mechanisms of dispossession; while ostensibly created to manage annuity distributions and land allotments, these documents simultaneously codified colonial control over native bodies by reducing complex ancestral communities into rigid, state-administered categories.

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, facsimile, portraits ; 26 cm

Published in local editions by archivist Theresa Trebon in cooperation with the Skagit Valley Herald, The Skagit Collection: First Views: An Early History of Skagit County, 1850-1899, Vol. 2 compiles rare historical photographs and local narratives documenting the formative decades of Washington's Skagit Valley. The volume captures the arduous daily lives of early homesteaders, loggers, and commercial fishermen who wrestled a tamed agricultural and industrial landscape out of dense river deltas and dense timberlands. Drawing heavily from archival images and early newspaper columns, the text preserves the visual and social fabric of communities navigating rapid frontier expansion. A keen insight drawn from the work is how late 19th-century local journalism and photography served as deliberate acts of community-building; by visually documenting fledgling settlements before they were fully established, pioneers used the camera to legitimize their presence and carve a permanent sense of permanence out of a fluid, flood-prone wilderness.

xxiv, 143 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm

Published through collaborative efforts by the Yarrow Point History Project Committee, King County Office of Cultural Resources, and historians like Suzanne Knauss and Charles Pierce LeWarne, A Point in Time: A History of Yarrow Point, Washington chronicles the transformation of a quiet Lake Washington peninsula from a rugged wilderness into an exclusive residential enclave. The book traces the area's evolution from its early logging days and seasonal strawberry farms into a suburban sanctuary shaped by ferry access and the eventual construction of the floating bridges. Through local archives, oral histories, and photographs, the text details how residents deliberately cultivated a private, close-knit community while remaining tethered to the economic engine of nearby Seattle. A keen insight drawn from the work is how geographical isolation on a peninsula can be aggressively repurposed as a tool for modern exclusivity; by leveraging its distinct peninsular geography and limiting major thoroughfares, Yarrow Point successfully transformed a natural barrier into a socioeconomic filter that insulated its inhabitants from rapid urban sprawl.

174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

This is a photographic history of North Central Washington. Hundreds of people from the region brought photographs and the history behind the photograph. The best photos were compiled to represent the history of the region. The photographs start in the 1880s and continue until about 1959

iv, 155 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 x 26 cm

For many early Americans, native and immigrant, Puyallup was much more than simply a destination in Western Washington, but was a fulfillment of a dream, a vision of prosperity and opportunity. The lush valley region along the Puyallup River provided both beauty and bounty, sustaining countless generations and a variety of cultures, from the early American Indians to the later European explorers and settlers. Within this untamed wilderness, a group of hardy and self-reliant pioneers began the great task of carving a livelihood, and through their extraordinary efforts, created a lasting monument to their courage and determination-the city of Puyallup. Puyallup: A Pioneer Paradise chronicles the story of the city's evolution from the indigenous tribe that once populated the valley to the post-World War II building boom that attracted thousands of new residents. Readers travel across several centuries of change as the country of the "Generous People," or Puyallup tribe, succumbed to the unyielding waves of new people, such as the colonists of the Hudson's Bay Company, the stalwart Naches Pass Immigrants, and scores of later men and women searching for the promise of land. This unique volume traces the city's varied history, including its once-prominent agricultural traditions in hops, berries, flowers, fruits, vegetables, and Christmas trees, and remembers a host of its colorful characters, citizens like Ezra Meeker and J.P. Stewart, who worked tirelessly to promote Puyallup's development and supplied much of the land and leadership necessary for its growth.

160 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

This UASBC regional inventory documents 12 of the most important shipwrecks in this easily accessible area north of Vancouver. Extensive archival research produced new details on the construction, operational history and loss of each vessel. Nine major wreck sites were explored and 3 deep water sidescan sonar searches were undertaken. A major accomplishment was the positive identification of the auxiliary schooner Malahat at Powell River. 2002, 8.5" x 11", 66 pages

66 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.

This unique study investigates the effects of the long interaction between anthropologists and the Kwakwaka'wakw (or Kwakiutl) peoples of coastal British Columbia. Beginning with Franz Boas, anthropologists have written extensively about the rich material culture of the Kwakwaka'wakw and have long collected their intricately detailed storage boxes, totem poles, and elaborate ceremonial wear. But how did the relationship between these two groups contribute to transform both ordinary and ritual objects into ethnological specimens, and then to works of art proudly displayed in museums? This expansive books is an anthropology of anthropology. Ira Jacknis identifies not only the effects of cross-cultural exchanges but also examines anthropology itself as a cultural process. He considers as well how museums define and present Native art and how their choices in turn influence current Native artists. The book offers a valuable collection of 131 halftones, ranging from nineteenth-century ethnographic photographs to catalog images from the American Museum of Natural History to documentary photographs taken by Jacknis in the 1980s. Together with Jacknis's close account of this classic chapter in anthropological history, they vividly show how the "anthropological encounter" is in fact an extraordinarily complex and fluid relationship.

xvi, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the Indian reserve in British Columbia. Cole Harris analyzes the impact of reserves on Native lives and livelihoods and considers how, in light of this, the Native land question might begin to be resolved. The account begins in the early 19th-century British Empire and follows Native land policy and Native resistance to it in British Columbia from the Douglas treaties in the early 1850s to the formal transfer of reserves to the Dominion in 1938. Making Native Space clarifies and informs the current debate on the Native land question. It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in British Columbia the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.

xxxi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

An indispensable and colorful site guide that any modern-day traveler can use to identify more than 100 species of native plants and animals first recorded by Lewis and Clark. Wildlife ecologist Sharon A. Ritter takes the reader from high on the Lolo Pass through the Bitterroot Mountains.

xiii, 315 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

T. McCracken and Robert B. Blodgett’s Holy rollers: murder and madness in Oregon's love cult explores the complex social boundaries and the intense, often turbulent civic maturation of the Willamette Valley during the early twentieth century. The narrative illustrates how the contrasting environmental realities of this topography—spanning from the established, structured agricultural communities of Corvallis to the rugged, geographically isolated refuge of the central Oregon coast—provided the stark backdrop for radical frontier movements to isolate themselves and challenge emerging societal norms. By detailing the gradual transition of a fringe religious sect into a secluded coastal commune, and the ensuing violent clashes with mainstream society, the text highlights the profound struggles inherent in establishing a cohesive legal and moral order in a rapidly developing region. Ultimately, the account demonstrates that navigating these deep social fractures, and patiently developing robust judicial institutions capable of addressing both radical zealotry and frontier vigilantism, were essential, albeit painful, steps in forging the enduring civic identity and legal foundation of modern Oregon.

xv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

The Tualatin River Basin in Washington County, Oregon has some of the most appealing and least known natural areas in the greater Portland area, and nobody knows the territory better than Tualatin Riverkeepers. This informative, well-organized guide introduces 85 readily accessible sites throughout the Tualatin River Basin, from the River's tributaries in the Coast Range to its confluence with the Willamette River. The detailed site descriptions include directions, maps, and a wealth of information on the plants, wildlife, and natural attractions to be found. Also included are brief features on the flora, fauna, ecology, and history of the area. Hikers, canoeists, naturalists, birders, and outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds will find this unique field guide an essential companion as they explore the beautiful, meandering Tualatin River and its environs.

xii, 162 pages : color illustrations ; ol. maps ; 22 cm

The Oregon Coast Range is an area that contains a diversity of plant and animal life and a wealth of natural resources. However, faced with a growing population and increasing demands on these resources, land managers today feel the need for new policies and practices aimed at ensuring their sustainability. Until recently there has been little scientific knowledge upon which to base these new approaches. In 1987 a major cooperative research effort called the Coastal Oregon Productivity Enhancement (COPE) Program was launched to fill this void. Forest and Stream Management in the Oregon Coast Range is the capstone of this effort and the synthesis of years of collaborative research. The book's ten chapters, written by scientists from leading research institutions, offer a thorough grounding in Coast Range geophysical processes, plant community ecology and dynamics, fisheries, wildlife, forest diseases, silviculture, and timber harvest operations. The book also describes a variety of management strategies and practices appropriate to the area and discusses the social and economic dimensions of sustainable management. Unlike other books dealing with natural resource management, this volume focuses exclusively on the Oregon Coast Range, an area of singular ecological assets and high economic importance. This has allowed the authors to provide specific and detailed information about the Coast Range and its particular resources and challenges. Written primarily for managers and resource specialists, the book will also appeal to resource scientists, forest landowners, the conservation community, and university students interested in forestry, fisheries, and wildlife sciences. This book is a result of the Coastal Oregon Productivity Enhancement (COPE) Program, a cooperative research and education effort between federal and state agencies, the forest products industry, city, county, and tribal governments, and small woodland owners. From 1987 to 1999, COPE sponsored 60 studies involving 130 researchers from 14 organizations and produced more than 300 publications.

xii, 276 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

A lively and perceptive new look at twentieth-century Pacific Northwest writing, The Arbutus/Madrone Files explores the dynamics of this cross-border region using resonant quotations, poetry, song lyrics, and art to demonstrate and enhance author Laurie Ricou's critical readings and ideas. The Arbutus/Madrone Files is a wide-ranging, deeply felt meditation on the land, people, and literature of the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest, gathered into twelve thematic essays or "files," including the Island File, Salmon File, Woodswords File, Sasquatch File, and, of course, the Rain File. A longtime student of literary regions, Ricou moves in this book from a scholarly perspective toward more personal and lyrical reflections about what constitutes "home" and "region." He explores the work of such Northwest authors as Emily Carr, H.L. Davis, David Guterson, Jack Hodgins, John Keeble, Ken Kesey, Joy Kogawa, Ursula Le Guin, John Okada, Kim Stafford, and David Wagoner, among others. This unique, stylishly written book will appeal to Pacific Northwest book-lovers interested in exploring the region's rich homegrown literature and art, and will be of great interest to scholars and students of regional literature, eco-criticism, and Pacific Northwest culture.

xv, 239 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

A lively and perceptive new look at twentieth-century Pacific Northwest writing, The Arbutus/Madrone Files explores the dynamics of this cross-border region using resonant quotations, poetry, song lyrics, and art to demonstrate and enhance author Laurie Ricou's critical readings and ideas. The Arbutus/Madrone Files is a wide-ranging, deeply felt meditation on the land, people, and literature of the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest, gathered into twelve thematic essays or "files," including the Island File, Salmon File, Woodswords File, Sasquatch File, and, of course, the Rain File. A longtime student of literary regions, Ricou moves in this book from a scholarly perspective toward more personal and lyrical reflections about what constitutes "home" and "region." He explores the work of such Northwest authors as Emily Carr, H.L. Davis, David Guterson, Jack Hodgins, John Keeble, Ken Kesey, Joy Kogawa, Ursula Le Guin, John Okada, Kim Stafford, and David Wagoner, among others. This unique, stylishly written book will appeal to Pacific Northwest book-lovers interested in exploring the region's rich homegrown literature and art, and will be of great interest to scholars and students of regional literature, eco-criticism, and Pacific Northwest culture.

280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Dispatches and Dictators uncovers the fascinating story of Oregon native Ralph Barnes, the New York Herald Tribune's European correspondent, who served in Paris, Rome, Moscow, Berlin, and London in the years between the two world wars. Barnes has been praised by colleagues and competitors alike as one of the best reporters of that pivotal era. But since his death in the 1940 crash of a British bomber in Yugoslavia, he has been largely forgotten. With persistence and unusually keen insight, Ralph Barnes reported on Fascism, Communism, Nazism, and the events leading to World War II. Stalin confined Barnes to Moscow for disclosing that millions were dying during the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, and Hitler expelled Barnes from Germany for predicting the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union. Recently, scholars have rediscovered Barnes, recognizing the perceptiveness of his observations about the nature of the Soviet regime, the centrality of anti-Semitism to the Nazis, and the descent into war. Drawing from Barnes's dispatches, his personal correspondence, and the recollections of his colleagues, Dispatches and Dictators offers a valuable perspective on the interwar period and on the challenges facing journalists covering the events of the time. Barnes's story also offers an intimate glimpse into one family's experience with the risks, hardships, and separations that belie the romantic popular image of the foreign correspondent.

vi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"The Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in the region's past, present, and future. Using a variety of color maps, charts, and photographs, the Atlas presents a vast amount of information intended to provide a long-term, large-scale view of changes in human and natural systems within the Basin." "Five chapters provide information on current conditions and historical changes since 1850, focusing in turn on land forms and geology, water resources, plants and animals, land use, and human population." "Next, there is a detailed examination of how the Basin may change between now and 2050 under three alternative scenarios for future land and water use: one assuming a continuation of current land use and management policies, the second assuming a loosening of current policies to allow freer development, and the third assuming greater emphasis on ecosystem protection and restoration."

ix, 178 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 44 cm

The Canadian West and the American Northwest offer a valuable setting for considering issues of borders and borderlands. The regions contain certain similarities, and during the first half of the nineteenth century they were even grouped together as a distinct political and economic unit, called the "Oregon Country" by Americans and the "Columbia Department" of the Hudson's Bay Company by the British. The essays in this volume -- which grew out of a conference commemorating the Oregon Treaty of 1846 -- view the boundary between Canada and the United States as a dividing line and also as a regional backbone, with people on each side of the border having key experiences and attitudes in common. In their eloquence and scope, they illustrate how historical study of Canadian-American relations in the West calls into question the parameters of the nation-state. The border has not had a single constant meaning; rather, its significance has changed over time and varied from group to group. The essays in Part One concern the movement of peoples and capital across a relatively permeable boundary during the nineteenth century. Many people in this era--especially Natives, miners, immigrants, and capitalists--did not regard the international boundary as particularly important. Part Two considers how the United States and Canada took pains to strengthen and enforce the international boundary during the twentieth century. In this era, the nation-state became more assertive about defining and defending the borderline. Part Three offers considerations of the distinctions, both real and imagined, that emerged during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between Canada and the United States. Its essays examine different schools of history, divergent ideas toward wilderness, and the influence of anti-Americanism on Canadians' view of national development in North America.

xxii, 302 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Ruth Busse Allingham’s The way it was: oral histories from Salmon Creek & Deep River provides a vital, firsthand chronicle of immigrant settlement and early industrial labor along the dense tidewater sloughs of the lower Columbia River estuary. Set against the rugged watersheds of Wahkiakum County, the narrative weaves together personal accounts to detail how predominantly Finnish and Scandinavian pioneers mapped their remote logging camps, dairy farms, and salmon canneries directly onto the riverine networks and trade routes long navigated by the Chinookan peoples. The text reveals the immense physical demands of early twentieth-century resource extraction, highlighting how these isolated workers relied on deep community bonds and interdependent alliances to survive unpredictable tidal systems and grueling economic cycles. Ultimately, this collection functions as an essential grassroots history, documenting how the cooperative endurance of rural immigrant families—and their reliance on established indigenous waterway geography—successfully transformed a wild coastal frontier into enduring, culturally distinct enclaves.

152 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm

Harry Marriott’s Cariboo Cowboy offers a firsthand chronicle of twentieth-century open-range cattle operations across the vast plateau country of the South Cariboo. Marriott recounts his arrival from England in 1912 and his subsequent management of the sprawling OK Ranch, detailing how pastoral livestock regimes were mapped over the native grasslands and hunting territories long stewarded by the Secwépemc. The text describes seasonal roundups, branding camps, and long cattle drives across rugged trails connecting Big Lake Ranch, Lone Butte, Forest Grove, and the expansive pastures of the Gang Ranch to the railway stockyards at Exeter and 100 Mile House. Marriott’s narrative captures the physical realities of interior ranch life, preserving an indispensable account of the working cowboys, rural roadhouses, and agricultural infrastructure that defined the central interior plateau.

240 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm

Branwen C. Patenaude’s Gold Creek: The Story of Stanley, British Columbia provides a granular micro-history of the vibrant mining town of Stanley, situated along the productive gravels of Lightning Creek. Patenaude documents how Stanley briefly rivaled Barkerville in commercial prominence and population during the 1860s and 1870s, as mining syndicates developed sophisticated drift works and deep-shaft hydraulic operations to tap buried ancient river channels. The narrative details the multi-ethnic social fabric of Lightning Creek, illustrating how European pre-emptors, American prospectors, and a substantial community of Chinese merchants and miners established hotels, general stores, and hydraulic ditch lines across the valley. Patenaude also traces the technological struggles at neighboring Wingdam and Beaver Pass House, chronicling how treacherous water seepages and shifting quicksands ultimately brought about the decline of the Lightning Creek settlements.

128 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm