Catalog of British Columbiana and Pacific Northwest Americana

The North Pacific temperate rainforest, stretching from southern Alaska to northern California, is the largest temperate rainforest on earth. This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of key issues important for the management and conservation of the northern portion of this rainforest, located in northern British Columbia and southeastern Alaska. This region encompasses thousands of islands and millions of acres of relatively pristine rainforest, providing an opportunity to compare the ecological functioning of a largely intact forest ecosystem with the highly modified ecosystems that typify most of the world's temperate zone. The book examines the basic processes that drive the dynamic behavior of such ecosystems and considers how managers can use that knowledge to sustainably manage the rainforest and balance ecosystem integrity with human use. Together, the contributors offer a broad understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by scientists, managers, and conservationists in the northern portion of the North Pacific rainforest that will be of interest to conservation practitioners seeking to balance economic sustainability and biodiversity conservation across the globe.

xi, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Welcome to North Idaho Memories: The Early Years, 1800s-1939. We hope you enjoy this pictorial expedition down memory lane published as a joint venture by the Coeur d’Alene Press and the Museum of North Idaho. While this book is not intended to be a comprehensive account of North Idaho’s history, it does offer many fascinating snapshots of the people and places that help define our rich heritage. The Museum of North Idaho graciously provided the vast majority of photos and caption information, and noted local historian Robert Singletary penned the chapter introductions after much diligent research. Since 1892, The Press has been an integral part of our region’s history. And for more than half a century, newspapers owned by The Hagadone Corp. throughout North Idaho have been faithfully recording not just the events around us, but insight into the people who shaped those events. This book is an extension of our mission.

128 pages : illustrations (black and white photographs) ; 23 cm

Published by Kenneth Campbell, North Coast Odyssey: The Inside Passage from Port Hardy to Prince Rupert captures the dramatic geography and rich maritime heritage of British Columbia's isolated northern marine highway. The book chronicles a coastal voyage through labyrinthine fjords, treacherous narrows, and wind-swept archipelagos, blending nautical adventure with local history, Indigenous lore, and observations of the region's abundant marine wildlife. Through vivid descriptive prose, the author details the weathered cannery towns, lighthouses, and remote settlements that cling to a magnificent yet unforgiving coastline. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the Inside Passage functions as a liquid highway that simultaneously isolates and connects; by relying entirely on maritime transit through a maze of stone and water, coastal inhabitants experience a profound sense of remoteness that can only be bridged by a deep, respectful attunement to the fickle rhythms of the Pacific tides.

202 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 23 cm

It was a fly fisher's dream - a cabin on the lower Rogue River in southern Oregon. But for Robin Carey, this new home also meant learning a new home river. In North Bank, Carey explores how new places gradually become familiar. His engaging essays describe how old memories - of family, of certain fish, of other rivers - and fresh experiences - scouting river canyons, volunteering at a fish hatchery, remodeling the cabin - have combined to shape this place on the Rogue into a place he calls home. That process, of creating home ground in a new place, is the subject of North Bank, a rich and poignant look at fly fishing, favorite rivers, and the desire for familiar landscapes

122 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Nootka was the home base of avarice and slaughter as the sea otter was rendered extinct by traders. It gained further infamy with the enslavement of John Jewitt in 1803. Since the author's discovery of Nootka Sound some 15 years ago she has lived off the local waters and been fortunate to witness the return of the sea otter. She shares her experiences with the reader and describes the routes and sights that new visitors can enjoy.-- Backroad jaunts in pristine wilderness

122 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm

Percival R. Jeffcott’s Nooksack tales and trails chronicles the arduous pioneer colonization and relentless terrestrial and hydrological subjugation of the violently overgrown, river-gouged frontier of Whatcom County at the extreme northwestern edge of the contiguous continent. The narrative maps how the severe environmental realities of this untamed coastal topography—defined by an impenetrable barricade of dense temperate rainforest, treacherous floodplain marshes, and the volatile, untapped kinetic energy of the Nooksack River—initially completely paralyzed overland transit and dictated a profoundly isolated, precarious pioneer existence. By detailing the grueling transition from vulnerable, disconnected riverbank camps reliant on fragile indigenous canoe routes to the aggressive physical dismantling of massive, deeply entrenched timber jams blocking the waterways, the text illustrates how the economic survival of the valley was strictly governed by the urgent necessity of artificially mastering this heavily saturated labyrinth. Ultimately, the account demonstrates that systematically domesticating the wild hydrological arteries of the basin and violently carving robust, mechanized overland transit corridors through sheer old-growth wilderness were the absolute prerequisites for shattering the region's geographical detachment and transforming a rugged, isolated borderland into a highly integrated agrarian and timber anchor of the Pacific seaboard.

[14], 436 pages : illustrations, folded map, portraits ; 24 cm

Place names convey a people's relationship to the land, their sense of place. For indigenous peoples, place names can also help to revive endangered languages. This book takes readers on a voyage into the history, language, and culture of the Nooksack people of Washington State and BC as it documents more than 150 places named by elders and mentioned in key historical texts. Descriptions of Nooksack history and naming patterns - with maps, photographs, and linguistic analyses of the place names - give life to a nearly extinct language and illuminate the intertwined relationships of place, culture, language, and identity

xviii, 228 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

In 1960 when twenty-five-year-old Al Reser became president of the potato salad manufacturing business which his parents began in their Oregon farmhouse kitchen ten years earlier, the company had a dozen or so part-time employees and annual sales of $300,000. Accountants told Al that the business was a likely candidate for bankruptcy. What the balance sheets didn’t account for, however, was the perseverance, hard work, and ingenuity of Al Reser. Today, Reser’s Fine Foods is one of the most respected and admired companies in the food industry, boasting over 2,600 employees and annual sales approaching one billion dollars. Reser’s salads, side dishes, dips, Mexican food specialties, snack foods, and desserts are familiar sights in kitchens in all fifty states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. The philanthropy of Al and his family has also made the Reser name familiar to America’s college football fans, as the Oregon State University Beavers play their home football games at Reser Stadium. In No Small Potatoes, Al Reser not only shares the inspiring story of his rise from poverty to the top of the business world, he also recounts the tough decisions that spurred Reser’s phenomenal growth, and the values that have guided his steps. It is a book that will inspire anyone who hopes to grow a small business into something bigger, and is proof that small potatoes and big dreams are a perfect recipe for success.

132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

From Aberdeen to Yarrow, NO PLACE LIKE HOME: THE UNINCORPORATED TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES OF COOS COUNTY, OREGON provides the history of the past and present communities of Coos County. Nine chapters provide details of the communities of the Bandon, Coos Bay, Coal, Coos River, Coquille Valley, Isthmus Slough and Beaver Slough, Myrtle Point, North Bend, Powers and Tenmile regions. Additionally, there is a detailed Introduction and a chapter dedicated the Coos and Milluk Native-Americans who possessed the land before the Euro-American settlers. This text relied on several local books of local history by local authors, internet writings, newspaper articles, museum research and personal interviews. There are over 550 photographs, maps, business advertisements and other documents.

322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

Presents the history of approximately 8,000 Canadians, who were imprisoned during the First World War because of their ethnic origins from Germany, Austria-Hungary and other enemy nations

xvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Published in 2011 by Steven M. Egesdal, M. Terry Thompson, and Mandy N. Jimmie, Nl̳ekèpmxcín: Thompson River Salish Speech is a comprehensive linguistic and cultural collection documenting the traditional language of the Nlaka'pamux people of British Columbia. The massive volume compiles dozens of authentic narratives, traditional orations, prayers, and conversations gathered from fluent speakers, complete with detailed interlinear morphological glosses and English translations. By bridging raw oral recordings with rigorous academic analysis, the text preserves complex grammatical structures and cultural knowledge directly from the source. A keen insight drawn from the work is how meticulous documentation of this caliber transcends traditional academic linguistics; by capturing spoken oral history in the native tongue, the book functions as a vital, community-rooted lifeline for language revitalization against the pressures of generational attrition

xiv, 596 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm.

Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to prevent their return after the war and stripped their names from the local war memorial. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had been imprisoned in camps as a consequence of Executive Order 9066. The racist homecoming that the Hood River Japanese American soldiers received was decried across the nation. Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral histories with the veterans, their families, and members of the community. She had access to hundreds of recently uncovered letters and documents from private files of a local veterans' group that led the campaign against the Japanese American soldiers. This book also includes the little known story of local Nisei veterans who spent 40 years appealing their convictions for insubordination.

xx, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nipika: a story of Radium Hot Springs explores the natural and cultural evolution of a unique geothermal oasis nestled deep within the rugged, steep-walled trench of the Columbia Valley in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. Zieroth details how the region's formidable physical barriers—specifically the towering peaks of the Kootenay and Purcell ranges and the narrow, sheer rock chokepoint of Sinclair Canyon—historically isolated this inland corridor and strictly dictated the movement of early Indigenous peoples and later European explorers. The narrative highlights how the specific geological anomaly of the thermal springs served as a vital focal point for human convergence, eventually forcing ambitious engineering efforts to blast modern roadways through the previously impenetrable alpine rock faces to connect the isolated valley to outside tourism and commerce. Ultimately, the book serves as a localized spatial history, demonstrating how the extreme mountainous topography and unique geothermal resources of this inland Pacific Northwest frontier fundamentally shaped its transition from a remote, inaccessible sanctuary into a heavily managed national park landscape.

36, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Ninstints, located on Anthony Island, one of the smallest and most southerly of the Queen Charlotte chain, contains the vestiges of the great wooden structures and houses of the Kunghit Haida people who abandoned the village in the late 1800s. George MacDonald combines archival material and scientific and photographic evidence to record what is known of the history of Ninstints and its people. Details are given of their houses, of their great chiefs, and finally of their exodus from Ninstints.

60 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Traditionally Nez Perce Indian women have held important roles within the tribe. The women conducted vital, routine, day-in and day-out domestic chores as well as maintaining a strong influence in tribal community, culture, and tradition. As white encroachment on Nez Perce lands increased and the missionaries increased their influence, the lives of the Nez Perce changed dramatically. This volume is the first look into the lives and contributions of Nez Perce women as they struggled to maintain their families and communities in times of great change. Nez Perce Women in Transition includes unique individual accounts recorded directly from personal interviews with Nez Perce women ranging in age from twenty to ninety. The narratives, in combination with a broad selection of photographs, present some of the major historical, political, and cultural changes that have occurred and provide an opportunity to view Nez Perce women as they made and continue to make dramatic transitions

xxix, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Greene (research historian, National Park Service) recounts the fighting retreat of the nontreaty Nez Perces, including Chief Joseph, across nearly 1,000 miles of Pacific Northwest wilderness. Greene draws from both U.S. Army and Nez Perce sources to explain their circuitous route through Yellowstone National Park and their attempts to seek refuge among the Crow Indians. Twenty-six illustrations and photographs and 16 maps are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

xix, 554 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Authored by naturalist and historian Bill Merilees, Newcastle Island: A Place of Discovery explores the rich natural and industrial heritage of the historic island park located off the coast of Nanaimo, British Columbia. The book traces the island's multifaceted past, from its early significance to the Snuneymuxw First Nation and its late 19th-century boom as a bustling coal-mining and sandstone-quarrying hub to its eventual transition into a beloved coastal recreation area. Through archival photographs, maps, and detailed natural history notes, the text captures how a small marine island became a microcasm of regional resource extraction and leisure. A keen insight drawn from the work is how industrial wastelands can be successfully reclaimed by nature and public memory; by documenting the physical transition from smoky coal pits to tranquil park trails, the narrative reveals that the landscape itself acts as a resilient archivist, quietly healing its extraction scars to offer new generations a sanctuary for ecological discovery.

128 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 22 cm

This is a collection of some of the finest studies, eighteen of them, which have appeared on aspects of the historical past of New Spain's Far Northern Frontier. It is intended primarily as a reader to supplement a course on the so-called Spanish Borderlands, putting at the easy disposal of the student outstanding bits of scholarship, developed, with one or other exception, in the 1960s and 1970s. The book can be valuable to the scholar, making quickly available as it does these same studies, which other-wise might have to be run down in the file of journals in which each appeared. The editor has prefaced the volume with a thoughtful and thought-provoking Introduction, in which he offers his concept of the place of Spain's borderlands in American history. The editor has also furnished a setting for each piece, along with a mini-biographical note and short bibliography of the works of each author. He has added "Suggestions for Further Reading and Research." Two of the essays-Albert H. Schroeder, "Shifting for Survival in the Spanish Southwest" (1968), and George Harwood Phillips, "Indians and the Breakdown of the Spanish Mission System in California" (1974)-have direct Indian pertinence. Many of the others have valuable insights for the student of the Native Americans. The book is welcome as a student reader and a convenient reference tool for the scholar of Spain in North America. -- JOHN FRANCIS BANNON, Saint Louis University

xix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Published in 1897 and meticulously annotated by historian Elliott Coues, this foundational three-volume work compiles the raw manuscript journals of North West Company fur trader Alexander Henry and master topographer David Thompson from 1799 to 1814. A keen insight drawn from the text is how Henry’s brutally candid daily entries shatter the romanticized myth of the heroic frontiersman, exposing the early North American fur trade as a ruthlessly pragmatic enterprise heavily reliant on the deliberate weaponization of alcohol to control and exploit Indigenous populations. The narrative tracks their extensive expeditions across the Red, Saskatchewan, Missouri, and Columbia river basins, providing granular details on frontier survival, commercial logistics, and complex tribal negotiations. Ultimately, by fusing Thompson’s unparalleled geographical surveys with Henry’s gritty cultural observations, the compilation stands as an indispensable primary source for understanding the harsh geopolitical realities of the early Pacific Northwest.

3 volumes frontispiece (portrait) maps (in pocket) 25 cm

New Land North of the Columbia features an 1860 letter protesting the escape of an Olympia slave to Victoria on the Puget Sound Underground Railroad. There's also territorial Governor Pickering's telegram to Abraham Lincoln sent on the brand-new telegraph--and Lincoln's hand-signed response. Other ephemera include posters and letters that support and condemn women's right to vote, prohibition of the sale of alcohol, and aid to the unemployed during the Great Depression. Here are documents about the massive, secret Hanford Engineering Works that was Washington's Manhattan Project. The book includes an ad for the first Lame Fest concert featuring Mudhoney and Nirvana, the original box that contained Windows 95, and a poster calling all protesters to the 1999 WTO conference. Historian Lorraine McConaghy has traversed the state and sifted through the files of three dozen archives to cull the 400 fascinating documents that bring to life Washington's last 150 years.

vi, 153 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 x 29 cm

"NEW LAND, NEW LIVES tells in their own words the experiences of 45 immigrants (28 of them women) in the early years of the 20th century. Rasmussen's selections capture the textures and tones of ordinary life. They show how the cultures the immigrants had known in the Old World influenced . . . life in the Pacific Northwest".--TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE. 41 photos

xiii, 320 pages : illustrations, 2 maps ; 25 cm

Published by the Office of the Secretary of State's Legacy Washington program, New Land: Southeast Asian Refugees Finding Home in Washington chronicles the profound humanitarian effort and individual resilience surrounding the resettlement of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees in the Pacific Northwest following the 1975 fall of Saigon. Drawing on extensive oral histories and archival research, authors John C. Hughes and Edward Echtle trace how thousands of displaced families rebuilt their lives from the ground up, establishing enduring cultural, economic, and civic roots across the state. A keen insight drawn from the book is how Washington's successful integration of these communities—spearheaded by pioneering political leadership under figures like Governor Dan Evans—fundamentally transformed the state's cultural landscape. By shifting the historical perspective away from distant geopolitical conflict to focus on grassroots local welcome, the book highlights how regional humanitarian action successfully countered national xenophobia and redefined the Pacific Northwest as a vibrant, multicultural diaspora.

327 pages, 14 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.

Originally built for the 1962 World's Fair, the Space Needle quickly became an international icon of the Pacific Northwest and a symbol of Seattle. At the time of its construction, the tower pointed the way toward the future with a sense of optimism, possibility, and invention. In its 55th year, the Space Needle is again representing an enhanced future with the Century Project, a holistic renovation of the upper levels led by Olson Kundig that repositions the iconic tower for its next fifty years. 'New Heights: Transforming Seattle's Iconic Space Needle' documents this latest chapter of the Space Needle's story with an in-depth look at the innovations, challenges, and triumphs realized by the client and project team, as seen through the eyes of the architects

191 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm

The first book-length ethnography of any Western Oregon native group, The Nehalem Tillamook fills an important gap in what was previously known about southern Northwest Coast native cultures. In 1933 and 1934, Elizabeth Jacobs, advised by her husband, the noted anthropologist Melville Jacobs, conducted fieldwork on the Nehalem Tillamook culture of northwestern Oregon. Working with her extraordinarily able Nehalem Tillamook consultant Clara Pearson, Jacobs recorded extensive ethnographic and folkloric materials that far surpass in quality and quantity the Tillamook research of previous investigators. Jacobs's collaboration with Pearson eventually resulted in the publication of Nehalem Tillamook Tales, an exceptional collection of myths and tales recorded in English. But the companion ethnography was never finished. The Nehalem Tillamook grew from that unfinished manuscript. In consultation with Elizabeth Jacobs, the manuscript was expanded and extensively edited by William Seaburg. After Elizabeth Jacobs's death in 1983, Seaburg added careful annotations and a detailed historical introduction. The result is a remarkable book that makes a major contribution to our understanding of Nehalem Tillamook culture and will be invaluable for drawing comparisons with other Northwest native cultures. About the author: JAROLD RAMSEY was born in central Oregon and grew up on his family’s ranch there. He left the ranch to attend college, and became an award-winning essayist and poet, as well as a published playwright and a respected authority on traditional American Indian literature. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Rochester and the author of several books. In 2017, he received the Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award for lifetime achievement from Literary Arts. He lives in Madras, Oregon.

154 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm