Catalog of British Columbiana and Pacific Northwest Americana
The Encyclopedia Cascadia Catalog indexes mostly non-fiction literature covering the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, with an emphasis on British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington State.
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Voices from the islands true stories about Washington State's fabulous San Juan Islands and those who inhabit them by Gordon Keith 
'Voices from the Islands' is must reading for anyone who has ever secretly or openly expressed a desire to live on a small island accessible only by boat or plane. In this potpourri of island stories, articles and interviews with old-timers as well as new-comers, you will meet such diverse individuals as Little Wolf, the Stuart Island Indian who was ‘raised with the wolves’; and a cartoonist who moved to an island to retire, but is presently syndicating his own cartoons nationally. You’ll meet an old-time individualist named Roger Purdue, who refused to let Orcas Island’s volunteer Fire Fighters on the roof of his house when the chimney burst into flames, because he didn’t want them walking around on his roof. There is also an interview with a former Hollywood script writer who gave up his lucrative assignments and moved to an island to live closer to nature. On the lighter side, there is an account of some Islanders who dumped an entire shipment of Seattle Post Intelligencers into the bay because of an article calling their town ‘the armpit of the San Juans.’ And, you’ll enjoy reading about the residents of a small island community who got their dander up when a 42-foot, state-owned cabin cruiser went aground and was left with no one aboard. Outraged at what seemed sheer negligence by the state, several islanders towed the vessel to the Olga dock, intending to hold it for salvage. “How to Win a Political Campaign with the Help of Your Opponent” is a humorous incident from Henry Jackson’s early days as an aspiring senator. Besides the thirty-three articles and interviews - illustrated by more than fifty photographs—-the author tells why he moved to the San Juans and why it took him and his family seven years, after they had purchased their Orcas Island home, before they could move into it. Whether you read Voices from the Islands for an intimate look at island life, or just to while away a few pleasant hours, you will find your time well spent. xvii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Non-circulating [ 1 ]
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1982 |
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Notes from the century before a journal from British Columbia by Edward Hoagland
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1982 |
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The Columbia is coming! by Doris Andersen 
From 1905 to 1969, people along the British Columbia coast knew and loved the ships and men of the Columbia Coast Mission. The fiery John Antle started the service, primarily to provide isolated logging camps, Indians and settlers with much-needed medical facilities; in addition, there were religious services and social occasions - weddings, picnics, visits, libraries and the famous Christmas parties. This is the story of those sturdy little ships, their warm-hearted, practical skipper-chaplains and doctors, and their important role in the history of the coast 205 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm Non-circulating [ 1 ]
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1982 |
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Boise an illustrated history by Merle W. Wells, Arthur A. Hart, Greater Boise Chamber of Commerce
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1982 |
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Highlights of Seattle's history illustrated by James R. Warren, William R. McCoy , Historical Society of Seattle and King County (Publisher)
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1982 |
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This day in Oregon daybook of Oregon history featuring Hugh Wetshoe by James Cloutier, Image West Press
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1982 |
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Soft gold the fur trade & cultural exchange on the northwest coast of America by Thomas Vaughan (Writer of introduction), Bill Holm, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Oregon Historical Society, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 
Annotated catalogue to accompany an exhibition of early northwest coast Indian artifacts from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and art and maps from various museums and private collections depicting the fur trade, along the northwest coast of America xi, 301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm Desiderata
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1982 |
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The apple of his eye the Sorrento Centre story by Dorothy Barker, Norma Hlina, Derek Arnold 
Dorothy Barker, Norma Hlina, and Derek Arnold’s The Apple of His Eye: The Sorrento Centre Story documents the agricultural foundation, community evolution, and institutional reinvention of the South Shuswap lakeshore. The chronicle outlines how pioneer promoter T.G. King acquired lakefront benches in 1910, naming the settlement after the Italian resort town and subdividing the terrain into commercial apple orchards that attracted English gentry families. The authors detail how early orchardists established cooperative packing houses, water flumes, and transport connections through the Notch Hill railway station, while building close civic ties with neighboring settlements in Blind Bay, Balmoral, and Eagle Bay. The narrative traces the eventual collapse of the commercial fruit industry during the Great Depression and the subsequent mid-century conversion of the historic King estate into an enduring ecumenical conference, cultural, and educational centre. 112 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm Desiderata
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1982 |
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Golden memories Golden City 1882 by Golden and District Historical Society
Compiled by the Golden and District Historical Society, Golden Memories: Golden City 1882 stands as the primary regional encyclopedia documenting the settlement history of the upper Columbia River and lower Kicking Horse river valleys. The volume details how nineteenth-century railway construction camps, timber operations, and homestead parcels were superimposed upon the traditional hunting and travel lands of the Ktunaxa and Secwépemc nations. The chronicle explores the bitter rivalry between Golden City and the downstream railway division terminal at Donald, tracing how Golden eventually consolidated regional dominance through the operations of the Columbia River Lumber Company and Upper Columbia steamboat navigation. Detailed family and property histories document rural settlement across the river benches and tributary valleys of Blaeberry, Nicholson, Harrogate, Parson, Castledale, and Forde. 400 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cm Desiderata
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1982 |
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Southern Idaho ghost towns by Wayne C. Sparling 
When mineral riches were found in Idaho an explosion of development erupted and quickly died away. Here is a guide to eighty-four of Idaho s most interesting ghost towns, describing the history of Idaho s mining boomtowns and their eventual demise. Descriptions are organized by region and provide the current state of preservation. Both wilderness explorers and armchair travelers will be delighted with the treasures to be found. 135 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Non-circulating [ 1 ]
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1981 |
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Mark the wind's power a novel by George R. Cerveny
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1981 |
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Captains, curates, and cockneys the English in the Pacific Northwest by Frank L. Green, Bruce Le Roy (Writer of introduction)
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1981 |
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Historical atlas map of Marion & Linn Counties, Oregon by Edgar Williams & Co
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1981 |
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The Fairhaven folktales of Dirty Dan Harris by Michael Sullivan 
A biography of the storyteller Daniel Jefferson Harris (1826-1890) of the Puget Sound area of Washington State, USA. 74 pages : illustrations ; 14 x 22 cm Non-circulating [ 1 ]
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1981 |
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Ashland the first 130 years by Marjorie O'Harra
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1981 |
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Log of the Union John Boit's remarkable voyage to the Northwest Coast and around the world, 1794-1796 by John Boit, Edmund Hayes, Hewitt R. Jackson 
xxxvii, 136 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 29 cm. Non-circulating [ 1 ]
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1981 |
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Colfax 100 plus by Edith E. Erickson
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1981 |
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River reflections Part II - 1910 - 1980 by Snohomish Historical Society
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1981 |
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Pacific Northwest Americana, 1949-1974 a supplement to Charles W. Smith's third edition 1950 by Richard E. Moore, Nadine H. Purcell, Charles W. Smith, Pacific Northwest Library Association Committee on the Smith Bibliography Supplement
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1981 |
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The life of a cranberry grower by Ethel Kranick Reichenbach 
Ethel Kranick Reichenbach’s memoir, The life of a cranberry grower, documents the twentieth-century agricultural development and family-scale enterprise that established Bandon, Oregon, as the cranberry capital of the southern Oregon coast. The narrative traces the physical engineering of the coastal terrace—specifically the diking, ditching, and sanding of acidic peat bogs—which superimposed intensive commercial berry agriculture directly onto the wetland ecosystems, estuaries, and seasonal gathering grounds stewarded by the Coquille and Miluk Coos peoples. Reichenbach details the exacting logistics of coastal wetland farming, illuminating how isolated growers managed frost mitigation, intricate water-fluming systems, and labor-intensive seasonal harvesting while building cooperative marketing networks to access distant urban distribution channels. Ultimately, the work illustrates how specialized hydrological manipulation and community resourcefulness transformed an ecologically delicate coastal dune landscape into an enduring commercial monoculture on the Pacific slope. 70 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Non-circulating [ 1 ]
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1981 |
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A guide to shipwrecks along the West Coast Trail by R. E. Wells
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1981 |
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Oceanography of the British Columbia coast by Richard E. Thomson 
This book deals with the physical aspects of the sea as exemplified by the Pacific Ocean and the contiguous waters of the British Columbia coast. Although principally devoted to waves, currents and tides, the book spans a broad spectrum of topics ranging from meteorology and marine biology to past and present marine geology. It attempts to elucidate the nature of oceanic motions and to relate them to everyday experience for the general interest of the casual reader and for the practical benefit of the professional mariner, scientist, or engineer xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm Non-circulating [ 1 ]
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1981 |
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San Juan Papers by John N. Rupp
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1981 |
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The Kerry line the Columbia & Nehalem River Railroad by Donald A. Davis
Donald A. Davis’s The Kerry Line: The Columbia & Nehalem River Railroad documents the engineering and operation of one of the Pacific Northwest’s most famous heavy-tonnage logging common carriers. Davis chronicles how lumberman A.S. Kerry constructed a 27-mile standard-gauge railroad beginning in 1913, driving track from the deep-water log dumps at Kerry on the Columbia River, over the Coast Range summit via a timber tunnel, and down into the Nehalem Valley. The text details the transportation of billions of board feet of virgin old-growth fir logs hauled by massive Mallet and geared locomotives from remote logging spurs at Keasey, Neverstill, Treharne, and Kyser. Davis illustrates the hazardous engineering challenges of maintaining steep trestles, managing runaway log trains, and sustaining isolated worker camps that operated until the timber was cut out in the late 1930s. 120 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm Desiderata
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1981 |
