Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.
An anything-but-dry history textbook in a take-it-with-you package,... Read More
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Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.
An anything-but-dry history textbook in a take-it-with-you package, Washington’s History is a fascinating walk through the sweeping story of a place and its people.
For centuries, the natural beauty and riches of the Northwest have excited the human imagination, from its first peoples to seafaring explorers, to westward-thinking pioneers, to technological thinkers and giants.
A Washington resident himself, author Harry Ritter offers fifty-five vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that comprise an entertaining and informative picture of life in the Far Northwest.
Learn about the Natives, explorers, traders, missionaries, loggers, farmers, inventors, and politicians. From Chief Seattle to Dr. John McLoughlin, William E. Boeing, Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, these are the people at the epicenter of events that shaped the Evergreen State.
Details
- Price: $34.99
- Pages: 144
- Carton Quantity: 38
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Imprint: WestWinds Press
- Publication Date: 23rd October 2018
- Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
- Illustration Note: 73 black and white photographs and 1 map
- ISBN: 9781513261775
- Format: Hardcover
- BISACs:
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
HISTORY / Social History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
Author Bio
Table of Contents
Prologue: The Northwest of the Imagination
Native Cultures
Maritime and Overland Exploration of the Northwest
Fur Traders, Pathfinders, and Missionaries
Pioneer Settlement
From BIg Trees to Big Sky: The Early Days of Washington Territory
The Iron Horse and the Vision of Economic Empire
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Related Reading
Index
Native Cultures
Maritime and Overland Exploration of the Northwest
Fur Traders, Pathfinders, and Missionaries
Pioneer Settlement
From BIg Trees to Big Sky: The Early Days of Washington Territory
The Iron Horse and the Vision of Economic Empire
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Related Reading
Index
Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.
An anything-but-dry history textbook in a take-it-with-you package, Washington’s History is a fascinating walk through the sweeping story of a place and its people.
For centuries, the natural beauty and riches of the Northwest have excited the human imagination, from its first peoples to seafaring explorers, to westward-thinking pioneers, to technological thinkers and giants.
A Washington resident himself, author Harry Ritter offers fifty-five vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that comprise an entertaining and informative picture of life in the Far Northwest.
Learn about the Natives, explorers, traders, missionaries, loggers, farmers, inventors, and politicians. From Chief Seattle to Dr. John McLoughlin, William E. Boeing, Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, these are the people at the epicenter of events that shaped the Evergreen State.
- Price: $34.99
- Pages: 144
- Carton Quantity: 38
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Imprint: WestWinds Press
- Publication Date: 23rd October 2018
- Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
- Illustrations Note: 73 black and white photographs and 1 map
- ISBN: 9781513261775
- Format: Hardcover
- BISACs:
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
HISTORY / Social History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
Prologue: The Northwest of the Imagination
Native Cultures
Maritime and Overland Exploration of the Northwest
Fur Traders, Pathfinders, and Missionaries
Pioneer Settlement
From BIg Trees to Big Sky: The Early Days of Washington Territory
The Iron Horse and the Vision of Economic Empire
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Related Reading
Index
Native Cultures
Maritime and Overland Exploration of the Northwest
Fur Traders, Pathfinders, and Missionaries
Pioneer Settlement
From BIg Trees to Big Sky: The Early Days of Washington Territory
The Iron Horse and the Vision of Economic Empire
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Related Reading
Index