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2009
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New Titles...............................................................1
Recent Releases.......................................................4
Current Best-Sellers................................................6
Perpetual Best-Sellers..............................................8

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Art/Photography...................................................10
Biography/Autobiography....................................11
Cooking/Food History.........................................12 Fine Quality Books from the Pacific Northwest
Education/Reference............................................13 Washington State University Press
Essays/Memoirs....................................................13 PO Box 645910
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Gold Rush.............................................................15 Phone: 509-335-3518
Lewis and Clark Expedition.................................15 800-354-7360
Fax: 509-335-8568
Literature...............................................................16 E-mail: wsupress@wsu.edu
Maritime History..................................................17 Web site: wsupress.wsu.edu
Military History....................................................17
WSU Press publishes seasonal catalogs
Multicultural Themes...........................................18 twice yearly.
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ISBN prefix:  978-0-87422
Nature/Environment............................................20
Northwest History................................................20 Scholarly publishers at Washington State
University since 1928.
Politics...................................................................23
Prehistory..............................................................23 Washington State University Press
is affiliated with the Association of
Railroads & Bridges..............................................25 American U ­ niversity Presses.
Washington State University................................26
The WSU Press invites submission of
Women’s Studies..................................................27 manuscripts focusing on the history,
prehistory, culture, and politics of the
TITLE INDEX......................................................28 West, particularly the Pacific Northwest.

Cover image: Cedar Falls in the Cedar River Watershed,

courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives.

November 2008. 125965

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Slick as a Mitten
Ezra Meeker’s Klondike Enterprise
Dennis M. Larsen

Ezra Meeker braved the Oregon Trail in 1852, and

eventually became a hop farmer and broker in the Puget
Sound country. He platted the town of Puyallup, Wash-
ington and served as its first mayor. By the 1880s he had
built a fortune and a mansion. Then suddenly, a devastat-
ing scourge of aphids followed by a severe national depres-
sion, swept his assets away, “slick as a mitten.” He rescued
his friends and neighbors when the local bank failed,
however, by tapping his own capital to return funds to account holders.
The Alaskan gold rush held renewed prospects for the financially
ruined. Despite his advanced age, Meeker ventured to the treacher-
ous Klondike four times, transporting and selling more than 60 tons of
groceries to Yukon gold miners. The arduous hauling of eggs, potatoes,
dried goods, and even live chickens, required steamers, dog teams, pack
animals, human backs, flatboats, and scows. His wife, Eliza Jane, who
remained closer to home, managed the food-drying and canning opera-
tion, manufacturing granulated eggs and dehydrated soup vegetables.
Ezra delighted in his infant grandson, Wilfred, who accompanied him
to Dawson in 1900. Four years of letters, most from Ezra to his beloved
Eliza Jane, relate the details of his risky schemes and experiences, from
business pursuits, to keeping warm, to the daily antics of his grandchild.
Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index
8½" x 11" • 136 pages
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-302-6 • $24.95
Available in March

Eliza and Ezra Meeker, soon after his 1901

Boat building at Lake Bennett. return from Alaska.
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Shaper of Seattle
Reginald Heber Thomson’s Pacific Northwest
William H. Wilson

“His achievements are woven into Seattle and the surrounding region
so durably that they are taken for granted even as Puget Sound, Lake
Washington, and Mount Rainier.”
—Roy O. Hadley

Young, ambitious, and college-educated, Reginald

Heber Thomson was eager to make a big impression.
Seattle was brimming with opportunity, but when his
steamer docked at Yesler’s Wharf in 1881, the view was
dismal. Nondescript wood-framed buildings and plank sidewalks
sprawled along muddy streets. Thomson may have smelled the Puget
Sound metropolis before he saw it. Utilities were crude to nonexistent.
Pipes dumped the untreated contents of chamber pots and tin bathtubs
straight into Elliott Bay, and a multitude of rats scurried around the
piers. Recalling that earlier time, he wrote, “Looking at local surrounds,
I felt that Seattle was in a pit, that to get anywhere we would be com-
pelled to climb out of it if we could.”
Soon, Thomson was surveying for his cousin’s firm. He quickly rose to
partner and mingled with Seattle’s elite. In 1884 he was appointed city
surveyor, and in 1892, city engineer. By then the booming population
was in dire need of a workable sewage system and a clean, reliable water
supply. Thomson delivered both and more, aided by his keen ability to
select capable subordinates. He installed drain pipes and sewers where
others had failed, and his gravity-powered Cedar River project replaced
water pumped from turbid Lake Washington. To improve the ability
of horses and carts to transport goods, he leveled several steep hills
and filled the worst hollows. His
municipal power plant lit homes,
businesses, and streets. In addi-
tion to sewers, water, and regraded
streets, the progressive, legendary
engineer also straightened and
dredged waterways, reclaimed
tideflats, and installed countless
miles of tunnels, bridges, and
pavement.
Later, he became a civic leader
and was involved with the Port of
Seattle and the Chittenden locks.
For decades, Thomson labored
The timber crib dam on the north bank of Cedar River in 1915. diligently on behalf of urban

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 d­ wellers,
and is
responsible
for much of
the Emerald
City’s existing
infrastructure.
Thomson
succeeded
despite a ten-
ure filled with
intense financial
pressure, meticu-
Seattle City Light Plant in 1917. lous audits, and
political and
public controversy, such as the Boxley Creek flood that washed away a
small lumbering community. Both a workaholic and a devoted family
man, he possessed extraordinary intelligence, energy, integrity, and per-
severance. He also was driven by his religious and political convictions.
In Shaper of Seattle, author ­William H. Wilson has produced a com-
prehensive, critical examination, exploring key events and forces that
shaped Reginald Heber Thomson throughout his youth, career, personal
life, and waning years.
Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index
8½" x 11" • 200 pages
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-301-9 • $29.95
Available in May

The Denny Regrade, south from Sixth Avenue and Battery Street, 1929.

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RECENT RELEASES
Finding Chief Kamiakin
The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot
Richard D. Scheuerman and
Michael O. Finley
Photography by John Clement

The arrival of unprecedented numbers of Oregon

Trail immigrants stirred a cataclysmic upheaval that
placed native peoples’ retention of lands and their
ancient customs in jeopardy. On May 29, 1855,
the Walla Walla Treaty Council commenced and
two weeks later, Chief Kamiakin signed the Yakima
Treaty of 1855 with great reluctance. He also resolved to resist threats
to his people’s freedoms and transgressions on their lifeways. Finding
Chief Kamiakin is his saga.
Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index
9" x 10½" • 248 pages
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-297-5 • $34.95

Greenscapes
Olmsted’s Pacific Northwest
Joan Hockaday

Landscape architect John Charles

Olmsted was mentored by Frederick
Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s
Central Park. In the early 1900s, the
meticulous, visionary protégé brought
his famous stepfather’s pastoral aes-
thetic to premier parks throughout
the Pacific Northwest—green
retreats that still refresh urban souls
in Portland, Seattle, and Spokane.
Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index
9" x 10½" • 224 pages
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-298-2 • $29.95

“One hundred years later, when we enter an Olmsted-designed park,

despite more traffic and development than even those visionaries could
probably imagine, we feel submerged in solitude, shelter and a dose of
peace sufficient to refresh even the 21st-century ­human spirit.”
—Pacific Northwest Magazine

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Making the Grade
Plucky Schoolmarms of Kittitas Country
Barb Owen

Thirteen former Kittitas country schoolmarms reflect

fondly on their days of teaching in remote locales between
1914 and 1943. Usually, their classes were small with mul-
tiple grade levels in a single room, and the new teachers also
served as janitors, fire builders, cooks, and water haulers.
For most, it was their first job and for some, an introduc-
tion to country living as well. The young women were away
from friends and family. They often lacked supplies. Facing
these ordeals with creativity, dedication, and pluck, they
enhanced the lives of many children, and earned the adoration of their
rural populations.
Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index
6" x 9" • 240 pages
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-299-9 • $19.95

Crossroads
and
Connections
Central Washington
University Art
Alumni Exhibition

The inaugural
Central Washington
University art alumni
exhibition included
selections from fifty-
five acclaimed artists who graduated between 1954 and 1979. Full
color photographs, succinct biographies, and quotes about artistic
endeavors showcase the former students’ stunning creations in paint,
sculpture, photography, ceramics, ­jewelry, and the fiber arts.
Central Washington University Art Department
Photographs • index
11¾" x 9 5⁄8" • 128 pages
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-300-2 • $29.95

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CURRENT BEST-SELLERS
Crooked River Country
Wranglers, Rogues, and Barons “A captivating and astonishing saga.”
—The Dalles Chronicle
David Braly
North Central Oregon’s hostile country and severe climate bred genuine
Wild West legends—hardy souls who defied immense adversity. Despite
range wars, drought, lawlessness, and economic depression, a desolate
wilderness ultimately became an industrial power.
344 pages (2007) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-293-7 • $24.95

Eccentric Seattle
Pillars and Pariahs Who Made the City Not Such
a Boring Place After All
J. Kingston Pierce
This captivating, irreverent romp through the celebrated and ­scandalous
past of the Emerald City and surrounding region recalls embezzlers,
tycoons, exploding toilets, smiley faces, and more.
320 pages (2003) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-269-2 • $21.95

Not as Briefed
From the Doolittle Raid to a German Stalag
Colonel C. Ross Greening
Compiled and edited by Dorothy Greening and
Karen Morgan Driscoll
Ross Greening piloted a B-25 in the 1942 Doolittle Raid, was
shot down over Italy in 1943, escaped from a POW train, hid
out in the mountains of northern Italy, and ended up in a Ger-
man stalag. His remarkable paintings and writing recall his
World War II experiences.
208 pages (2001) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-259-3 • $31.95

America’s Nuclear Wastelands

Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup
Max S. Power
“Max S. Power provides the facts
America’s Nuclear Wastelands presents an without diminishing the terrifying
aspects of the crisis.”
expert, yet straightforward overview of —Tom Carpenter, Executive Director,
this complex topic, including nuclear Hanford Challenge
weapons history and contamination
issues.
216 pages (2008) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-295-1 • $19.95

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Terra Northwest
Interpreting People and Place
Edited by David H. Stratton
Eminent Pacific Northwest historians probe the region’s changing soci-
ety and culture. Essays examine Spanish exploration, Native American
religion and worldview, Canadian-United States political relations, WWII
immigration, women’s history, and more.
232 pages (2007) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-291-3 • $21.95

In the Shadow of the Mountain

The Spirit of the CCC
Edwin G. Hill
A typical recruit in the Civilian Conservation Corps describes “the best
years of his life” at Camp Hard Labor Creek in Georgia and in the shadow
of Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens in Washington.
208 pages (1990) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-073-5 • $14.50

Renegade Tribe
The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the
Inland Pacific Northwest
Clifford E. Trafzer and Richard D. Scheuerman
In this award-winning book, the conventional story of western expansion
and Indian-white conflict is sensitively retold from the perspective of Native
Americans.
224 pages (1986) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-027-8 • $18.95

Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852

As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented
with Accounts by other Overland Travelers
Weldon Willis Rau
The 1852 overland migration, the largest on record, was a year in which
cholera took a terrible toll on lives. Firsthand accounts, including the
words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis
Boatman, convey the journey’s hardships and heartbreak.
256 pages (2001)
Hardbound • ISBN 978-0-87422-237-1 • $35.00
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-238-8 • $18.95

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 PERPETUAL BEST-SELLERS
Wandering and Feasting
A Washington Cookbook
Mary Houser Caditz
In celebration of Washington’s bounty, Wandering and Feasting takes
readers on an exciting culinary journey throughout the state. Vignettes
on local communities note each region’s history and its native and
cultivated foods, which are highlighted in more than two hundred
delicious recipes.
352 pages (1996) • Spiral • ISBN 978-0-87422-138-1 • $24.95

The Funhouse Mirror

“Searing…memorable
Reflections on Prison and gripping.”
Washington State
Robert Ellis Gordon Book Award, 2000 —Kirkus Reviews

Robert Ellis Gordon’s account of teaching writing in

Washington prisons is aided by essays and stories contributed by the pris-
oners themselves. Together, Gordon and his students provide revealing
glimpses of this vast, secret-laden subculture of incarcerated individuals,
which nationwide comprises more than two million U.S. citizens.
132 pages (2000) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-198-5 • $14.95

Books by Ladd Hamilton “Hamilton…has done an admirable job

of re-creating the gritty lives and times
This Bloody Deed of these historical characters.”
—The New York Times
The Magruder Incident
Vivid storytelling brings to life the infamous early 1860s murder
of a popular Lewiston merchant in the Bitterroot Mountains.
280 pages (1994) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-107-7 • $18.95

Snowbound
Snowbound is the scandalous, true tale of the Carlin party in 1893,
whose adventure of a lifetime became an unthinkable tragedy.
248 pages (1997)
Hardbound • ISBN 978-0-87422-153-4 • $35.00
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-154-1• $19.95

Fields of T
  oil
A Migrant Family’s Journey
Isabel Valle
Reporter Isabel Valle lived and traveled with a migrant family for an
entire year. The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin and WSU Press have com-
piled her award-winning reports into a dramatic story.
240 pages (1994) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-101-5 • $14.95

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“[Jack Nisbet is] Thompson’s best, most intimately
knowledgeable, biographer to date.”
— BC Studies:   The British Columbian Quarterly

The Mapmaker’s Eye

David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
Jack Nisbet
Experience the sweep of human and natural history on the early
nineteenth-century Columbia Plateau through the eyes of intrepid
explorer and cartographer David Thompson.
192 pages (2005) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-285-2 • $29.95

The Restless Northwest

A Geological Story
Hill Williams
In an easy, conversational style, The Restless Northwest pro- Washington
vides a brief overview of the remarkable geological processes State Book
that have shaped the Pacific Northwest. Award, 2003

176 pages (2002) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-250-0 • $19.95

Native River
The Columbia Remembered
William D. Layman
In images and narratives, Native River recreates the untamed
Mid-Columbia—the river as it once was before the building
of seven major dams. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, maps,
and photographs, many never-before-published, this finely
crafted book focuses on the 350-mile reach of the middle
Columbia River.
208 pages (2002) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-257-9 • $24.95

“An excellent modern translation.”

Winnetou —The Wall Street Journal

Karl F. May
Translated and Abridged by David Koblick
More copies of this German tale of the American West have been
printed than any other novel in German publishing history. Koblick
has penned a lively English translation of the daring adventures of Old
Shatterhand and the Apache chief, Winnetou.
256 pages (1999) • Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-179-4 • $16.95

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  ART/PHOTOGRAPHY
“Gaylen Hansen can draw like a god.”
—Gary Larson, cartoonist

The Art People Love

Stories of Richard S. Beyer’s Life and His Sculpture
Margaret W. Beyer
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-184-8 • $22.95

Gaylen Hansen
Three Decades of Paintings
Keith Wells, with a contribution by Gary Larson
Museum of Art, Washington State University
Hdb. • 978-0-9755662-3-7 • $24.95

Witch of Kodakery
The Photography of Myra Albert Wiggins,
1869-1956
Carole Glauber
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-148-0 • $21.00
Art and Context
The 1950s and ’60s
Chris Bruce, Nella Van Dyke, Keith Wells
Museum of Art, Washington State University
Hdb. • 978-0-9755662-2-0 • $24.95

Extending the Artist’s Hand

Contemporary Sculpture from the
Walla Walla Foundry
Palouse Country Compiled by Chris Bruce
George Bedirian Museum of Art, Washington State University
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-254-8 • $32.95 Hdb. • 978-0-9755662-0-6 • $24.95

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 OREGON

Andrew L. Hofmeister
Odyssey
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-075-9 • $15.00
Iron Pants
Oregon’s Anti-New Deal Governor,
Charles Henry Martin
Gary Murrell
  BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Pbk. • 978-0-87422-196-1 • $22.95

IDAHO Pacific Northwest

Frank Church, D.C., and Me Ranald MacDonald

Bill Hall Pacific Rim Adventurer
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-119-0 • $13.50 Jo Ann Roe
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-147-3 • $35.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-146-6 • $18.95

Montana

Very Close to Trouble Iron in Her Soul

The Johnny Grant Memoir Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left
Edited by Lyndel Meikle Helen C. Camp
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-140-4 • $35.00 Hdb. • 978-0-87422-105-3 • $30.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-139-8 • $17.95 Pbk. • 978-0-87422-106-0 • $21.00

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Washington

Honor in the House

Speaker Tom Foley
Isaac I. Stevens Jeffrey R. Biggs and Thomas S. Foley
Young Man in a Hurry Hdb. • 978-0-87422-172-5 • $35.00
Kent D. Richards Pbk. • 978-0-87422-173-2 • $25.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-094-0 • $24.95

Rufus Woods, the Columbia River, and the

Seattle’s Historian and Promoter Building of Modern Washington
Robert E. Ficken
The Life of Edmond Stephen Meany
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-122-0 • $21.25
George A. Frykman
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-178-7 • $23.75

  COOKING/FOOD HISTORY

The Way We Ate

Clarence C. Dill Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900
The Life of a Western Politician Jacqueline B. Williams
Kerry E. Irish Hdb. • ISBN 978-0-87422-137-4 • $29.95
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-190-9 • $22.95 Pbk. • ISBN 978-0-87422-136-7 • $18.95

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 Good Times at Green Lake The Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf
Recipes for Seattle’s Favorite Park A Short-title Catalog
Susan Banks and Carol Orr Compiled and edited by Julia King and Laila Miletic-Vejzovic
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-235-7 • $16.95 Hdb. • 978-0-87422-270-8 • $45.00

Seasoned with Words—A Cookbook

Stories, Memoirs & Poems about Food Copyright Law on Campus
Oregon Writers Colony Marc Lindsey
Hdb. • 978-1-891535-01-7 • $22.00 Pbk. • 978-0-87422-264-7 • $16.00

  EDUCATION/REFERENCE   ESSAYS/MEMOIRS
Alaska

AfricaDotEdu
IT Opportunities and Higher Education in Africa
Edited by Maria A. Beebe, Koffi Magloire Kouakou, Edge of    Tomorrow
Banji O
­ yelaran-Oyeyinka, and Madanmohan Rao An Arctic Year
Published by Tata McGraw-Hill Sam Wright
Hdb. • 978-0-07-050720-3 • $34.95 Pbk. • 978-0-87422-167-1 • $14.95

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My Heart on the Yukon River River Earth

Portraits from Alaska and the Yukon A Personal Map
Monique Dykstra John C. Pierce
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-157-2 • $24.95 Hdb. • 978-0-87422-176-3
$30.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-177-0
$14.95

Short of a Good Promise

William Vern Studebaker
Idaho Pbk. • 978-0-87422-181-7
Oregon $14.95

Home Mountains
Reflections from a Western Middle Age
Susan H. Swetnam
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-189-3 • $14.95
Netting the Sun
A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert
Melvin R. Adams
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-236-4 • $16.95

WASHINGTON

Valley Walking
The Pull of Moving Water Notes on the Land
Alice Koskela Robert Schnelle
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-180-0 • $13.95 Hdb. • 978-0-87422-151-0 • $18.75

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  GOLD RUSH   LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION

Unsettled Boundaries
Fraser Gold and the British-American Northwest
Robert E. Ficken
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-268-5 • $19.95 Lewis and Clark Trail Maps
A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volumes I–III
Martin Plamondon II

Volume 1
Missouri River between Camp River Dubois
and Fort Mandan
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-232-6 • $65.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-233-3 • $45.00
Spiral • 978-0-87422-234-0 • $65.00

Faith of Fools
A Journal of the Klondike Gold Rush
William Shape
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-160-2 • $24.95
Volume II
Beyond Fort Mandan to Continental Divide
and Snake River
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-242-5 • $75.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-243-2 • $55.00
Spiral • 978-0-87422-244-9 • $75.00
Volume III
Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean and Further
Columbia, Marias, and Yellowstone Explorations
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-265-4 • $75.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-266-1 • $55.00
Spiral • 978-0-87422-267-8 • $75.00

Individual maps from the Lewis and

Clark Trail Maps series—
18" x 24" oversize black and white format.
Any individual map $10
Volume I set (154 maps) $450
Volume II set (186 maps) $500
Volume III set (212 maps) $550
Complete set (550 maps) $1350
Fraser Gold 1858!
The Founding of British Columbia Special handling required.  Contact
WSU Press for specific ordering information.
Netta Sterne
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-165-7 • $19.95

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“A young woman falls in love with a much older,

married physician in the tiny frontier town of
Opportunity (Moscow), Idaho. But that’s only
one of the story lines in this extravagantly plot-
ted 1944 novel.”
—Pacific Northwest Inlander

Lewis and Clark Lexicon of Discovery

Alan H. Hartley
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-278-4 • $24.95
Spiral • 978-0-87422-279-1 • $27.95

  LITERATURE Buffalo Coat

Pbk. • 978-0-87422-095-7
$19.95

The Oil Prince

Karl May
Translated by Herbert Windolf
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-262-3 • $18.95
Strangers in the Forest
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-096-4
Books by Newbery Award winner, $19.95
Carol Ryrie Brink

A Chain of Hands Snow in the River

Pbk. • 978-0-87422-098-8 Pbk. • 978-0-87422-097-1
$17.95 $19.95

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  MARITIME HISTORY  
Farallon
Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore
Steve K. Lloyd
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-193-0 • $35.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-194-7 • $18.95
Availability
Almost a Hero
The Voyages of John Meares, R.N., to China,
Hawaii and the Northwest Coast
J. Richard Nokes
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-155-8 • $19.95
The World of the Oregon Fishboat
A Study in Maritime Folklife
Janet C. Gilmore
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-187-9 • $30.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-171-8 • $22.95
MILITARY HISTORY
Captured Honor
POW Survival in the Philippines and Japan
Bob Wodnik
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-260-9 • $19.95
Call for
Splendid Service
The Montana National Guard, 1867-2000
Edited by Orlan Svingen
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-286-9 • $24.95
Valiant Women in War and Exile
Thirty-eight True Stories
Sally Hayton-Keeva
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-263-0 • $19.95
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Through These Portals
A Pacific War Saga
Wayne C. MacGregor, Jr.
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-255-5 • $21.95
  MULTICULTURAL THEMES
Africana Studies
Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms
Delores P. Aldridge and E. Lincoln James, Editors
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-294-4 • $24.95
Black Studies
Theory, Method, and Cultural Perspectives
Edited by Talmadge Anderson
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-074-2 • $15.00 (s)
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China’s First Hundred
Educational Mission Students in
the United States, 1872–1881
Thomas E. LaFargue
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-035-3 • $8.50
Color
Latino Voices in the Pacific Northwest
Lorane A. West
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-274-6 • $19.95
Forbidden Red
Widowhood in Urban Nepal
Kathey-Lee Galvin
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-283-8 • $18.95
(s) available at a 20-percent short discount
   NATIVE AMERICANS

Taoism and the Rite of Cosmic Renewal

Second Edition
Michael R. Saso The Wenatchee Valley and Its First Peoples
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Trhilling Grandeur, Unfulfilled Promise
Richard Scheuerman
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The Cayton Legacy

An African American Family
Richard S. Hobbs Indian Summers
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-251-7 • $21.95 Washington State College and the
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J.J. Creighton
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Toward a Peaceable Future

Redefining Peace, Security and Kyosei
from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Takhoma
Edited by Yoichiro Murakami, Noriko Kawamura, and Shin Chiba
Ethnography of Mount Rainier National Park
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  NATURE/ENVIRONMENT
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Not Just Trees

Desert Wings
Controversy in the Idaho Desert
Niels Sparre Nokkentved
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The Legacy of a Douglas-fir Forest
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
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Washington

Grand Coulee
Harnessing a Dream
To the White Clouds Paul C. Pitzer
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J.M. Neil
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Wild to the Last Fire in the Hole

Environmental Conflict in the Clearwater Country The Untold Story of Hardrock Miners
Charles Pezeshki Jerry Dolph
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In God’s Country
The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest
David A. Neiwert Dear Medora
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Sydney Stevens
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Books by Robert E. Ficken

Adapting in Eden
Oregon’s Catholic Minority, 1838-1986
Patricia Brandt and Lillian A. Pereyra
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Nimrod
Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier Washington State
Ronald B. Lansing The Inaugural Decade, 1889-1899
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Forgotten Trails
Historical Sources of the Columbia’s
Big Bend Country
Ron Anglin
Edited by Glen W. Lindeman
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-116-9 • $19.95
Spokane and the Inland Empire
[Revised edition]
An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology
Edited by David H. Stratton
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-277-7 • $21.95
The Dynamics of Change
A History of the Washington State Library
Maryan E. Reynolds with Joel Davis
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-248-7 • $18.95 (s)
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The Changing Pacific Northwest
Interpreting Its Past
Edited by David H. Stratton and George A. Frykman
Tapebound • 978-0-87422-020-9 • $30.00 (s)
Built in Washington
12,000 Years of Pacific Northwest Archaeological Sites
and Historic Buildings
Washington State Office of Archaeology and
Historic Preservation
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-065-0 • $9.00
Beach of Heaven
A History of Wahkiakum County
Irene Martin
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-156-5 • $17.00
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The Hutton Settlement
A Home for One Man’s Family
Doris H. Pieroth
Published by The Hutton Settlement Inc.
Hdb. • 978-0-615-12355-4 • $29.95
  POLITICS
Washington State Government and Politics
Edited by Cornell W. Clayton, Lance T. LeLoup,
and Nicholas P. Lovrich
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Choosing Justice
The Recruitment of State and Federal Judges
Charles H. Sheldon and Linda S. Maule
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-152-7 • $17.50
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PREHISTORY
Tracking Ancient Footsteps
William D. Lipe’s Contributions to Southwestern
­Prehistory and Public Archaeology
Edited by R.G. Matson and Timothy A. Kohler
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-290-6 • $22.95
Marmes Rockshelter
A Final Report on 11,000 Years of Cultural Use
Edited by Brent A. Hicks
Spiral • 978-0-87422-275-3 • $65.00 (s)
The Structure of Twana Culture
With Comparative Notes on the Structure
of  Yurok Culture
William W. Elmendorf and A.L. Kroeber
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The Big Black Site (32DU955C)
A Folsom Complex Workshop in the Knife River Flint
Quarry Area, North Dakota
Edited by Jerry D. William
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-241-8 • $50.00 (s)
The Hoko River Archaeological Site Complex
The Archaeology of the Bobtail Wolf Site
Folsom Occupation of the Knife River Flint Quarry Area,
North Dakota
Edited by Matthew J. Root
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-240-1 • $50.00 (s)
The Hoko River Archaeological Site Complex
Pacific Latin America in Prehistory
The Evolution of Archaic and Formative Cultures
Edited by Michael Blake
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Pacific Northeast Asia in Prehistory
Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers, Farmers, and
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The Wet/Dry Site (45CA213), 3,000-1,700 B.P.
Dale R. Croes
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-117-6 • $37.50 (s)
The Rockshelter (45CA21), 1,000-100 B.P.
Dale R. Croes, with contributions by Barbara Stucki
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Companion CD • 978-0-9768928-0-9 • $18.00
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Catastrophe to Triumph
Bridges of the Tacoma Narrows
Richard S. Hobbs
Prepared in cooperation with the
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North Bank Road
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway
John T. Gaertner
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-070-4 • $21.25
Orphan Road
The Railroad Comes to Seattle, 1853-1911
Kurt E. Armbruster
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-186-2 • $24.95
Books by JIM FREDRICKSON
Steam to Diesel
Jim Fredrickson’s Railroading Journal
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-245-6 • $45.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-246-3 • $29.95
Railroad Shutterbug
Jim Fredrickson’s Northern Pacific
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-195-4 • $45.00
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-197-8 • $29.95
Railscapes
A Northern Pacific Brasspounder’s Album
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Across the Columbia Plain

Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, Spanning Washington
1885-1893 Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State
Peter J. Lewty Craig Holstine and Richard Hobbs
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Wired for Success

The Butte,  Anaconda & Pacific Railway, 1892-1985
Charles V. Mutschler
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-252-4 • $31.95 Picture WSU
Images from Washington State University
Pbk. • 978-0-87422-287-6 • $19.95

To the Columbia Gateway

The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, WSU Military Veterans
1879-1884 Heroes and Legends
Peter J. Lewty C. James Quann
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Heart and Theory
Glenn Terrell, Ph.D.
Pacific Institute Publishing
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Mercer’s Belles
The Journal of a Reporter
Roger Conant
Edited by Lenna A. Deutsch
Hdb. • 978-0-87422-089-6 • $18.75

Buck Bailey Women and the Journey

The Making of a Legend The Female Travel Experience
Weldon B. “Hoot” Gibson Edited by Bonnie Frederick and Susan H. McLeod
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Edna and John

A Romance of Idaho Flat
Abigail Scott Duniway
Edited by Debra Shein
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TITLE INDEX PAGE
Across the Columbia Plain . ................................... 26
Adapting in Eden..................................................... 21
AfricaDotEdu........................................................... 13
Africana Studies....................................................... 18
Almost a Hero ........................................................ 17
America’s Nuclear Wastelands.................................. 6
Andrew L. Hofmeister ............................................ 11
Archaeology of the Bobtail Wolf Site, The............. 24
Art and Context...................................................... 10
Art People Love, The ............................................. 10
Beach of Heaven...................................................... 22
Big Black Site, The.................................................. 24
Black Studies............................................................ 18
Buck Bailey.............................................................. 27
Buffalo Coat............................................................. 16
Built in Washington................................................ 22
Captured Honor....................................................... 17
Catastrophe to Triumph.......................................... 25
Cayton Legacy, The................................................. 19
Chain of Hands, A................................................... 16
Changing Pacific Northwest, The........................... 22
China’s First Hundred.............................................. 18
Choosing Justice...................................................... 23
Clarence C. Dill....................................................... 12
Color........................................................................ 18
Copyright Law on Campus...................................... 13
Crooked River Country............................................. 6
Crossroads and Connections..................................... 5
Dear Medora............................................................ 21
Desert Wings............................................................ 20
Dynamics of Change, The....................................... 22
Eccentric Seattle........................................................ 6
Edge of Tomorrow.................................................... 13
Edna and John......................................................... 27
Extending the Artist’s Hand.................................... 10
Faith of Fools............................................................ 15
Farallon.................................................................... 17
Fields of Toil............................................................... 8
Finding Chief Kamiakin............................................ 4
Fire in the Hole........................................................ 20
Forbidden Red.......................................................... 18
Forgotten Trails . ..................................................... 22
Frank Church, D.C., & Me..................................... 11
Fraser Gold 1858! ................................................... 15
Funhouse Mirror, The................................................ 8
Gaylen Hansen........................................................ 10
Good Times at Green Lake...................................... 13
Grand Coulee........................................................... 20
Greenscapes............................................................... 4
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TITLE INDEX PAGE
Hoko River Archaeol. Site, Rockshelter................. 24
Hoko River Archaeol. Site, Wet/Dry...................... 24
Home Mountains..................................................... 14
Honor in the House................................................. 12
Hutton Settlement, The.......................................... 23
In God’s Country..................................................... 21
In the Shadow of the Mountain................................ 7
Indian Summers....................................................... 19
Iron in Her Soul....................................................... 11
Iron Pants................................................................. 11
Isaac I. Stevens......................................................... 12
Lewis and Clark Lexicon of Discovery.................... 16
Lewis and Clark Trail Maps I................................... 15
Lewis and Clark Trail Maps II................................. 15
Lewis and Clark Trail Maps III................................ 15
Library of Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The............. 13
Making the Grade...................................................... 5
Mapmaker’s Eye, The................................................. 9
Marmes Rockshelter................................................ 23
Mercer’s Belles......................................................... 27
Ministry of Leadership, The.................................... 27
My Heart on the Yukon River................................. 14
Native River............................................................... 9
Netting the Sun....................................................... 14
Nimrod..................................................................... 21
North Bank Road..................................................... 25
Not as Briefed............................................................ 6
Not Just Trees........................................................... 20
Oil Prince, The........................................................ 16
Orphan Road........................................................... 25
Pacific Latin America in Prehistory........................ 24
Pacific NE Asia in Prehistory.................................. 24
Palouse Country....................................................... 10
Picture WSU............................................................ 26
Pull of Moving Water, The...................................... 14
Railroad Shutterbug................................................. 25
Railscapes................................................................. 25
Ranald MacDonald . ............................................... 11
Renegade Tribe ......................................................... 7
Restless Northwest, The............................................ 9
River Earth............................................................... 14
Rufus Woods............................................................ 12
Seasoned with Words............................................... 13
Seattle’s Historian and Promoter............................. 12
Shaper of Seattle........................................................ 2
Short of a Good Promise......................................... 14
Slick as a Mitten........................................................ 1
Snow in the River.................................................... 16
Snowbound ............................................................... 8
TITLE INDEX PAGE
Spanning Washington............................................. 26
Splendid Service...................................................... 17
Spokane and the Inland Empire, Revised............... 22
Steam to Diesel........................................................ 25
Strangers in the Forest............................................. 16
Structure of Twana Culture, The............................. 23
Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852.............................. 7
Takhoma.................................................................. 19
Taoism, Second Edition........................................... 19
Terra Northwest......................................................... 7
This Bloody Deed...................................................... 8
Through These Portals............................................ 18
To the Columbia Gateway....................................... 26
To the White Clouds............................................... 20
Toward a Peaceable Future...................................... 19
Tracking Ancient Footsteps..................................... 23
Unsettled Boundaries............................................... 15
Valiant Women in War and Exile........................... 17
Valley Walking......................................................... 14
Very Close to Trouble.............................................. 11
Wandering and Feasting.............................................8
Washington State, Inaugural Decade.......................21
Washington State Government & Politics..............23
Washington Territory................................................21
Way We Ate, The.....................................................12
Wenatchee Valley and Its First Peoples, The...........19
Wild to the Last .......................................................20
Winnetou ...................................................................9
Wired for Success......................................................26
Witch of Kodakery . .................................................10
Women and the Journey...........................................27
World of the Oregon Fishboat, The.........................17
WSU Military Veterans............................................26

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