Catalog of British Columbiana and Pacific Northwest Americana

Authored and compiled by the Lemhi County History Committee, the three-volume Centennial History of Lemhi County, Idaho provides an exhaustive archival portrait of settlement, mining, and indigenous displacement in east-central Idaho's rugged mountainous terrain. The comprehensive set documents the turbulent evolution of the Salmon River country from ancestral Shoshone and Bannock homelands into a rugged frontier carved by the 1860s gold rushes, ranching, and copper mining. Through extensive pioneer diaries, family genealogies, and local records, the volumes preserve the granular details of daily survival in an isolated, high-altitude basin. A keen insight drawn from the work is how multi-volume local histories compiled by community committees function as collective acts of self-mythologizing; by meticulously cataloging every homestead and mining claim while glossing over the violent removal of the indigenous population, the collection illustrates how local memory is often curated to enshrine pioneer resilience while institutionalizing the erasure of native sovereignty.

3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Enhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country’s beauty and expanse, starting with its First Peoples, then moving through distinct immigrant groups. Chapters cover events that prompted emigration, describe the settlers’ transitions and living conditions, chronicle significant people and families, discuss major influences that impacted the population, and recount how the communities grew and changed.

Cecil Andrus is Idaho's only 4-term governor. A biography and political reminiscence of the life and career of Idaho s only four-term governor, written by his friend and former press secretary, Chris Carlson. Carlson reveals the political rules Andrus practiced and unveils the exceptional personal qualities of the man who arguably has had the greatest impact on Idaho in modern times.

xx, 269 p. : ill.

The immensely popular governor of Idaho from 1970 to 1994--and former U.S. Secretary of Interior--tells it like it is in this frank and perceptive memoir of his life as a Western politician

248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Into the valley of Donner and Blitzen, almost a century ago, rode Peter French with 1,200 head of California cattle. John Devine of White Horse Ranch was already in the Harney country of Southeast Oregon, but the Blitzen was left for Peter. This is the story of how the great stockmen of the late 1800s set a pattern for modern cow ranches, improving the land and cattle by the best scientific methods available. Peter French himself irrigated thousands of acres of sageland with his canals and ditches. Hard-driving and ambitious, French, in a few years, won control of 200,000 acres of range land, and thousands of head of cattle

167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Published in 1906, Thomas Nelson Strong’s Cathlamet on the Columbia provides a vivid historical account of early pioneer life along the lower Columbia River during the mid-to-late 19th century. The book chronicles the foundational days of the Cathlamet settlement in Washington State, highlighting the complex interactions between incoming settlers and the indigenous Chinookan tribes. Through personal recollections and short stories, Strong documents the region's cultural shifts, the tragic decline of local Native American populations due to disease, and the rugged realities of frontier survival. It remains a valuable primary source for understanding the social and environmental transformation of the Pacific Northwest prior to heavy industrialization.

xv, 170 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : colour, mounted illustration ; 21 cm

"In 1974, at the age of thirty-two, Les AuCoin became the first Democrat to win a US House seat in Oregon's First Congressional District. He was one of the young post-Watergate reformers who shook up an insular, autocratic Congress and led fights for affordable housing, "trickle-up" economics, Oregon wilderness, abortion rights, and nuclear arms control. In the late-1980s, the Oregonian called him one of the most "influential lawmakers in the Pacific Northwest." In this highly readable collection of life stories, AuCoin traces his unlikely rise from a fatherless childhood in Central Oregon to the top ranks of national power. Then came a painful defeat in one of the most controversial races in US Senate history, against incumbent Bob Packwood. But AuCoin's tale does not end there. A fly fisher, AuCoin uses "catch and release" as a metaphor that speaks to all of us-succeeding and letting go of loss with dignity and equanimity. His memories are in turn funny, suspenseful, and revealing. AuCoin's journey takes him to the Kremlin, pre-industrial China, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and into the tortuous politics of the Northwest spotted owl crisis. He interacted with global figures like Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, legislative leaders such as House Speakers Tip O'Neill and Jim Wright, Oregon legends Tom McCall and Mark Hatfield, and, closer to home, activists like Sidney Lasseigne of the Newport Fishermen's Wives. Each of these individuals helped mold international, national, and state politics. In Catch and Release, readers will get a glimpse behind the scenes of congressional life, as lived by the 535 souls who inhabit the US House and Senate-including the author, who assesses his own strengths and foibles with humility and candor"-- Provided by publisher

xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

The formation of the Grand Coulee remained a mystery for many years until J Harlen Bretz proved that the Columbia River basin was the site of huge floods 15,000 years ago that created the landscape we see today.

213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Enamored by the western frontier, British immigrant Cashup Davis, his wife Mary, and eleven children became one of the first white families to settle on the Palouse’s spectacular rolling hills in eastern Washington Territory. Living at first in a simple sod house, they turn their bunchgrass acreage into a farm, befriend Native Americans during a war ignited by the U.S. government’s treaty violations, and eventually open an immensely popular and prosperous stagecoach stop. But Cashup has another dream: he is resolutely determined to build a grand luxury hotel on one of the region’s highest points, the summit of Steptoe Butte. People tell him it is a ridiculous idea, but Cashup never listens to the doubters. He’s brash, confident, and full of charisma.

xv, 214 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 23 cm

An anthology of poems, oratory and prose on the Cascadia region

xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

"A stretch of tumbling white water five miles long, the Cascades of the Columbia River were the single greatest barrier to inland river trade and travel in the Pacific Northwest. One solution, the Cascade Locks and Canal, took nearly 18 painstaking years to construct. From 1878 to 1896, hundreds of laborers blasted, chipped, and hauled over 800,000 cubic yards of rock and debris from the riverbed, carved and laid masonry, and welded steel to create the locks. After their completion, thousands of trips, millions of dollars in freight, and hundreds of thousands of passengers made their way through the locks. Made redundant in 1938 by the completion of the Bonneville Dam, the remnants of the structure are still visible today in Cascade Locks, Oregon."--Page 4 of cover

127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Carlton Stone left his Essex home to follow the sea when he was fourteen and two decades later found a life’s work amid the trees of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. From his little four-man Doupe Road sawmill near Duncan grew an enterprise that once employed 500 men and ranked third among the Island’s lumber producers.

132 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.

Describes the late nineteenth-century gold rush to Canada's Fraser River, its hardships and tragedies, its rare success stories, and its effect on the settlement of northern British Columbia

180 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

"A remarkable account of the grueling journey to the summit of Mount Logan. Naturalist and cinematographer, Hamilton Mack Laing, marched into the Alaskan wilderness alongside weathered guides and hardened, experienced mountaineers. From Laing's diaries, we learn how capturing the summit pits the daring adventurers in a struggle with nature, changing them irrevocably as they became part of the environment that tested them."-- Provided by publisher

268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

x, 105 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

When Captain Cook set out to seek a western entrance to the fabled North West Passage, his instructions allowed him no more than the briefest contact with the coast of north-west America. Extraordinarily young crews, inexperienced officers and a doctor set on Vancouver's downfall, all combined to test Vancouver's leadership to the limit.

158 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

The historical recount of the life and times of Captain McNeill, a long-standing captain in the pioneering days of the fur trade. McNeill was the captain of the Honourable Hudson's Bay steam ship SS Beaver.The historical recount of the life and times of Captain McNeill, a long-standing captain in the pioneering days of the fur trade. McNeill was the captain of the Honourable Hudson's Bay steam ship SS Beaver. William McNeill was born in Boston in 1803. At eleven years old, he chose a life at sea, and began gaining his experience to rise to the rank of master of a vessel, which required skill in mathematics and an understanding of the cosmos for navigation. William was a red-head, tall and heavy set. His temper was on a short fuse and, when threatened, he was aggressive in his action, impetuous, blusterous and a little given to exaggeration. He was not fond of waiting to see how things might turn out. William was probably first mate at fifteen years of age on the brigantine Paragon and a master mariner at twenty-one. By the time he joined the Hudson's Bay Company, he was a competent and experienced master mariner and fur trader. Follow his historical immigration to Canada to become one of the most feared and serviceable trading captains of the Honorable Hudson's Bay Co.

256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Authored by Arthur Kitson, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., "the circumnavigator" offers a comprehensive biographical account of the legendary British explorer and his monumental maritime expeditions. The book traces Cook’s ascent from his early days in the merchant coal trade to his command of three historic global voyages, detailing his meticulous mapping of the Pacific Ocean and his crucial surveys along the Pacific Northwest coastline. Drawing heavily upon Admiralty records and Cook’s own logs, the text captures the immense navigational achievements and devastating final act of a man who fundamentally redrew the map of the world. A keen insight drawn from the work is how Cook's disciplined expeditions marked a pivotal transition in European expansion from speculative treasure-hunting to empirical scientific imperialism; by weaponizing precise cartography and geographic observation, Cook's voyages demonstrated that the true mastery of new frontiers relied on systematic data collection rather than sheer military force.

xvi, 525 pages : facsimiles, folded color map, facsimiles, plates, portraits ; 23 cm

275, [9] pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Along the walls of the House and Senate chambers in the Oregon state legislature are the names of 158 men and women who helped shape Oregon's history. This compilation of biographies uses information taken from a number of existing published sources

133 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

"A fascinating and in-depth look at Victoria's largely unknown professional hockey players in the early twentieth century, and the historical context in which they played. For most hockey fans hailing from Canada's westernmost province, the sport's most coveted prize, the Stanley Cup, has remained frustratingly elusive for nearly a century. But what many people do not know is that the west coast, and in particular the city of Victoria, was once a hockey mecca, where superstars flourished, Hall of Famers were made, and big victories--yes, even the Stanley Cup of 1925--were won. Capitals, Aristocrats, and Cougars is a deep dive into the world of professional hockey in Victoria from 1911 to 1925, an era that saw forty-nine men take their turns in one of the city's newly minted teams. It was also an era of unprecedented social, economic, and political change, a period that spanned the First World War and redefined Canada's national identity. With meticulous research and encyclopedic knowledge,author, historian, and consummate hockey fan Alan Livingstone MacLeod chronicles the key players, coaches, arena builders, and team visionaries who contributed to this long-forgotten chapter of hockey history, and puts them all in the context of what was going on in the world at the time. This in-depth account is sure to delight history buffs and hockey fans alike."-- Provided by publisher

279 pages : (some) black and white illustrations; 23 cm.

A narrative of travel in Washington Territory in 1853. This ed. does not include Isthmiana, a narrative of travel on the Isthmus of Panama in 1852

xiv, 194 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : frontispiece (portrait), illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Cannon Beach: A Place by the Sea was published in 1996 by the Oregon Historical Society Press. The book chronicles the colorful heritage of this iconic Oregon coastal community. The book weaves together historical accounts and local lore to trace the area's evolution from a remote wilderness into a beloved seaside destination. O'Donnell highlights key figures, early homesteaders, and the enduring natural landscapes that defined the character of the northern Oregon coast. It stands as an informative and engaging chronicle for anyone interested in Pacific Northwest coastal history.

xxiii, 164 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

The volumes contain photographs of the Canadian Pacific Railway along the Revelstoke region. They include photographs from the Revelstoke Railway Museum as well as the author's own

volumes : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm

A one-of-a-kind readable history of the railroads that helped develop the timber and coal resources of Coos County, Oregon from 1850 to 1930. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the towns of Coos Bay, Oregon, grew from a few scattered homesteads to a bustling, ocean-going port. The area's phenomenal growth was fueled by timber and coal. Nothing was more important in developing these resources than railroads. Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin' is the complete story of how these vital transportation links were built by daring entrepreneurs who drove lines of steel into the area's rugged mountains and deep canyons. From backwoods engines and wooden rails to town celebrations and bay-spanning bridges, Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin' brings to life a time and place vital to the history of Oregon and the West. Author, William A. "Bill" Lansing has drawn upon decades of first-hand knowledge of the area, backed by hundreds of facts and figures, and countless hours of historical research, to produce a compendium of colorful stories of this robust time.

143 pages : illustrations, 1 color map ; 29 cm + 1 map (61 x 90 c.m.) in pocket