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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Legends of the Klickitats a Klickitat version of the story of the bridge of the gods by Clarence Orvel Bunnell 
Published in 1933 by Clarence Orvel Bunnell, Legends of the Klickitats: A Klickitat Version of the Story of the Bridge of the Gods presents an adaptation of regional Native oral traditions concerning the great landslide and natural stone arch that once spanned the Columbia River Gorge. Written as a dramatic, quasi-mythological narrative, Bunnell frames the text as a faithful preservation of tribal lore passed down through the Klickitat people, detailing the titanic mythological battles of the creator spirit Tyee Sahale and the cataclysmic destruction of the land bridge. Rather than an academic transcription, the work is heavily stylized for a popular white readership, blending Euro-American literary conventions with romanticized Indigenous motifs to capture the dramatic antiquity of the Pacific Northwest landscape. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the cultural appropriation of Indigenous oral tradition functioned to safely domesticate and re-conquer the landscape for the settler-colonial imagination. By filtering Native creation narratives through a heavily romanticized, melodramatic literary lens, Bunnell effectively stripped the local tribes of their living political sovereignty and contemporary existence, reducing them to legendary phantoms tethered exclusively to geological deep time. This historiographical and literary maneuver allowed white settlers to emotionally colonize the Columbia River Gorge; by absorbing local Indigenous mythology into the regional folklore of the American frontier, the settler state could claim a deep, quasi-spiritual ancestry in the territory while simultaneously erasing the actual, displaced descendants who continued to inhabit the landscape. 48 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1935 |
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History of Oregon literature by Alfred Powers , Bernard Hinshaw (Illustrator)
7 preliminary leaves, [3]-809 pages (including frontispiece) : portraits, plates, facsimiles ; 23 cm ONLINE CIRC [ 1 ]
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1935 |
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History of Oregon literature by Alfred Powers , Bernard Hinshaw (Illustrator)
7 preliminary leaves, [3]-809 pages (including frontispiece) : portraits, plates, facsimiles ; 23 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1935 |
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A pictorial history of the state of Washington by Ralph Ernest Downie
157, ii pages including color frontispiece, illustrations plates, portraits, folded map 26 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1937 |
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Nature rambles in the Wallowas sketches of the natural history of northeastern Oregon by Elmo Nall Stevenson 
Sketches of the natural history of northeastern Oregon. 100 pages including plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1937 |
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By Juan de Fuca's strait pioneering along the northwestern edge of the continent by James G. McCurdy 
In this provocative and illuminating book, Marianna Torgovnick explores the psychology of our profound attraction to cultures we call "primitive." Whether located in Africa, the South Pacific, or the American Southwest, the primitive has become synonymous in the Western imagination with a range of emotions and experiences thought to be lost in modern life: reverence for the land and for nature; strong communal bonds; sexual plentitude; and, perhaps most intriguing, and ecstatic sense of connection to the universe and the life force. Torgovnick investigates the numerous ways we have turned toward the primitive out of spiritual hunger for such deeply human experiences - a hunger that could once be satisfied within the West's own mystical traditions but that often no longer can be. Brilliantly encompassing religion, art, psychology, literature, and other aspects of our culture, Primitive Passions offers new insight into our ideas of spirituality and gender, and, ultimately, into the hidden but vital parts of ourselves 312 pages frontispiece (map), illustrations (including portraits, facsimiles) 22 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1937 |
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San Juan Islands, the Cronstadt of the Pacific by Archie W. Shiels
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1938 |
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History of Alturas and Blaine counties, Idaho by George A. McLeod
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1938 |
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1938 |
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Odd place names and their origin by United States Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project (Or), Historical Records Survey (Or), Oregon State Board of Control
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1938 |
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Coos narrative and ethnologic texts by Melville Jacobs
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1939 |
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Oregon, end of the trail by Writers' program. Oregon
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1940 |
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Building a state Washington, 1889-1939 by Washington State Historical Society, Charles Miles , Ottis Bedney Sperlin
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1940 |
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Idaho civics by Deborah Davis
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1941 |
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Narcissa Whitman pioneer of Oregon by Jeanette Eaton , Woodi Ishmael (Illustrator), Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
Focuses on events from youth of a missionary who was the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains 5 unnumbered preliminary leaves of plates, pages 3-318 : illustrations, map ; 23 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1941 |
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Living high by June Burn 
By June BurnCourage, gaiety, and a fresh approach to live are reflected in this "unconventional autobiography." It is a story of a twentieth-century pioneers as resourceful as ever they were in the days of the old frontier. June Burn and her husband Farrar determined to go their own sweet way, enjoying "first hand living" and not surrounding to the routines of a workday world. Through the years they had some high and glorious adventures, which included homesteading a "gumdrop" in the San Juan Islands, of the Pacific Northwest, teaching Eskimos near Siberia, and exploring the United States by donkey cart with a baby aboard. - Living High, 1958 edition book jacket 292 pages ; 23 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1941 |
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A history of Latah County to 1900 by Lawrence Ray Harker
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1941 |
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1942 |
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Archaeology of the upper Columbia region by Donald Collier , Alfred E. Hudson , Arlo Ford
176, [1] pages : including illustrations (including maps, plans) XXII plates, tables, profiles ; 26 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1942 |
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British Columbia and the United States the north Pacific slope from fur trade to aviation by H. F. Angus , F. W. Howay, W. N. Sage 
The region dealt with contains those parts of North Pacific Slope where British interests have prevailed. Before the year 1846 this included the valley of the Columbia River, and also, in a sense, the Snake River Country. The backbone of the narrative, which extends from the early maritime fur-trade days of the eighteenth century down to the present, is largely economic in character. xv, 408 pages illustrations (maps) 25 cm CIRC [ 0 ]
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1942 |
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At the end of the car line by Ben Hur Lampman 
At the End of the Car Line, published in 1942 by Binfords & Mort in Portland, Oregon, is a collection of editorial sketches, essays, and verses originally written by Ben Hur Lampman for The Oregonian, where he was a longtime columnist and associate editor. Lampman, a celebrated Oregon writer and the state’s poet laureate from 1951 until his death in 1954, was known for his lyrical yet accessible style, capturing the everyday life and natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. This book reflects his versatility as a writer—blending prose and poetry to explore themes close to his heart. 1 preliminary leaf, 191, [1] pages : frontispiece (illustration) ; 21 cm CIRC [ 0 ]
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1942 |
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Esquimalt naval base a history of its work and its defences by F. V. Longstaff
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1942 |
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Chief Seattle by Eva Greenslit Anderson, Fern Cousineau Duncan (Illustrator)
390 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables, maps, portraits ; 24 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1943 |
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The ports of British Columbia by Agnes Rothery
Description and history of Vancouver and Victoria, chief seaports of British Columbia vii, 279 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1943 |
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Sacajawea of the Shoshones by Della Gould Emmons
Fictionalized life of the Shoshone woman who guided the Lewis and Clark Expedition 316 pages ; 21 cm CIRC [ 1 ]
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1943 |
