"LEWISTON: Alice and Connor sit by their roadside stand selling cheap fireworks while developers swallow the land around them. Promised a condo in the new development, their future is secure. Enter Marnie, Alice's long-lost granddaughter, proposing to buy the land to save her family's legacy. Marnie and Alice will become reacquainted with each other's deeply held secrets, uncertain pasts, and hopeful futures. Hunter, a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, explores the emotional frontiers of a family struggling to make a home in the vastness of the American landscape with affection, poignancy, and a profound sense of empathy."-- Back cover

161 pages ; 21 cm.

Co-authored by Margaret Day Allen and Ladd Hamilton, Lewiston Country: An Armchair History chronicles the rich heritage, geographic crossroads, and frontier development of Idaho’s first territorial capital. The book traces the region's evolution from ancestral Nez Perce homelands into a bustling steamboat and mining hub where the Clearwater and Snake rivers converge. Through engaging historical narratives and archival imagery, the text captures the colorful cast of merchants, miners, and riverboat captains who anchored civilization at the gateway to the inland empire. A keen insight drawn from the work is how river confluences function as natural magnets for geopolitical and economic control; by examining how Lewiston leveraged its strategic waterway access to dominate regional supply lines, the narrative highlights how the geography of river junctions dictated the terms of colonial dominance and urban survival across the Pacific Northwest.

vi, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

I write about a river I feel close to, having known it for well over a half century. My father's "benchland" ranch was just over the ridge from the narrow valley through which the Clearwater plows its urgent way to sea level. I have observed this river in all its vagaries; its spring rampagings which have set ferries adrift, lifted bridges from their piers, washed out trackage, and inundated highways; its summer somnolence; and its colorful September thinness which brings into view all the sumacbedecked islands, including "turkey-man's paradise," made safe by two channels against marauding coyotes. Although I know something about the land carved by the river, for this story I have relied in large measure on the works of numerous scholars whose research has left a legacy rich in Idaho lore. The book owes a special debt of gratitude to the following: Sister Alfreda Elsensohn for her monumental two-volume History of Idaho County; the late Robert G. Bailey, who produced the indispensable River of Not Return and Hell's Canyon, and his son, R. G. Bailey, Jr., for granting permission to use the photographs from River of No Return. Further, I am indebted to Potlatch Forests, Incorporated, for making available information and photographs. This book is an informal history of the Clearwater drainage area, including borderlands whose history naturally interweaves. I have not attempted to follow in detail all the threads of growth from their beginnings, but have stressed origins and directions in a setting of unfolding dramas. If certain characters and events have been omitted, the reason lies in the selective process that has had to be employed. -The Author, Cecil Dryden

258 pages illustrations 21 cm.

Published in 1903, this extensive volume chronicles the pioneer settlement, Native American history, and rapid industrial development across the rugged panhandle region of northern Idaho. A keen insight drawn from the text is how the area's extreme geographic isolation from southern Idaho forced these northern counties to develop a distinct, fiercely independent culture driven by the volatile boom-and-bust cycles of the Coeur d'Alene mining districts and vast timber operations. The book details the civic and economic growth within Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai, and Shoshone counties, documenting their transition from frontier wilderness to established industrial hubs. Like similar regional histories of its era, the narrative ultimately serves as a vital genealogical resource by preserving hundreds of biographical sketches of the prospectors, farmers, and civic leaders who built the region.

xxviii, 1238 pages, [113] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm