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Inventing Idaho
As Idaho's State Historian, the question Keith Petersen heard most was, "How did Idaho get such a strange shape?" That curiosity is fitting, because those peculiar borders have …
Boyhood Among the Woolies
Like many Pacific Northwest sheep herders, Sebastian Etulain emigrated from Europe's Basque country. He arrived in Yakima in May of 1921, convinced that hard work could overcome a …
We Few, We Academic Sisters
Starting in 1967, a time when fewer than 1% of women completed any education beyond four years of college, the Washington State University (WSU) Sociology Department dared to hire …
North Bank Road
John T. Gaertner's extensively illustrated history of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, which fancied itself as the "Northwest's own railroad," offers the reader special …
Edge of Tomorrow
From the last great wilderness, in the Brooks Range of Alaska, one hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle, Sam Wright speaks to an emerging view of nature as an interconnected, …
Beyond the Wonder: An Ecologist's View of Wild Alaska
The grizzly paused in knee-deep water, staring straight at the man behind the camera. Abruptly he bolted, racing full tilt toward Thomas Bancroft, his eyes glued to the …
Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance
Like the rest of the American West, the mid-Columbia region has always been diverse. Its history mirrors common multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In the late …
The Last Lookout on Dunn Peak
Some summers are destined to generate cherished memories. For married high school sweethearts Don and Nancy Hammond, they happened in 1972 and 1973, when Don's lifelong dream of …
Desert Wings
Desert Wings tells the contentious story of how the U.S. military and high-ranking federal and state politicians attempted to secure a bombing range in the fragile canyonlands of …
Butch T. Cougar
Butch, the beloved Washington State University Cougar mascot, just may be a superhero. This charmingly illustrated children's book lays out the evidence and lets readers decide. …
All for the Greed of Gold
When the steamship Cleveland left Seattle's docks on March 1, 1898, William Jay Woodin was on board, traveling with his father and several others. They were chasing the nineteenth …
Psychiana Man
Six weeks after the 1929 stock market crash, Frank Bruce Robinson created a self-help religion he called Psychiana. An ingenious mass-marketing pioneer, he sold a correspondence …