Library Search Results

Your search found :
and
Per Page:

Book Review:
Seven Frontier Women and the Founding of Spokane Falls

By Barbara F. Cochran Edited by Suzanne and Tony Bamonte Hardcover, 304 pages Photographs, index, notes, and sources Tornado Creek Publications ISBN 978-0-9821529-2-8 $24.95

Read More

Book Review:
Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity

By Andrew H. Fisher The Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography Paperback, 337 pages Photographs, Notes, Bibliography, Index University of Washington Press ISBN 978...

Read More

Book Review:
Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle: A History of Performances by Hollywood Notables

By Eric L. Flom McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2009 299 pages, Paperback Photos, Appendices, Notes and Index ISBN 978-0-7864-3908-9 $59.95

Read More

Book Review:
Sonic Boom: The History of Northwest Rock, from "Louie Louie" to "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

By Peter Blecha Backbeat Books, 2009 Paperback, 304 pages Photographs, Record Labels, Posters, News Items, Discography, and index ISBN 978-0-87930-946-6 $19.99 To write a book this good you have to...

Read More

Book Review:
Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions

By Charlotte Coté Foreword by Micah McCarty Paperback, 273 pages Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index University of Washington Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-295-99046-0 $26.95

Read More

Book Review:
Spokane Set In Stone: Selected Historical Monuments, Markers and Points of Interest In and Around Spokane

By Dick Jensen Tornado Creek Publications Paperback, 150 pages, 218 photos and illustrations, index ISBN: 978-0-9821529-0-4 $15.95

Read More

Book Review:
The Indomitable Francis H. Cook of Spokane: A Man of Vision

By Doris J. Woodward Edited by Tony and Suzanne Bamonte Paperback, 130 pages Photographs, source notes, index Tornado Creek Publication, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9821529-1-1 $18.95

Read More

Book Review:
The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune

By Charles P. LeWarne University of Washington Press, 2009 Paperback, 306 pages Photographs, Appendices, Bibliography, Notes, General Index and Name Index ISBN 978-0-295-98885-6 $24.95

Read More

Book Review:
The Meek Cutoff: Tracing the Oregon Trail's Lost Wagon Train of 1845

By Brooks Geer Ragen Hardcover, 176 pages Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index University of Washington Press, 2013 ISBN 978-0-295-99309-6 $40.00

Read More

Book Review:
The Year We Were Famous

By Carole Estby Dagg Ages 12 and up Hardcover, 250 pages ISBN 978 0 618 99983 5 $16.99

Read More

Book Review:
"They Are All Red Out Here": Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest

By Jeffrey A. Johnson University of Oklahoma Press, 2008 Hardback, 240 pages Photographs, map, footnotes, bibliography, index ISBN: 978­-0-8061-3967-8 $34.95

Read More

Book Review:
Twice a Pioneer: A Life on the Frontier

By F.H. McKay Birchouse Publishing, Norwich, Vermont Paperback 208 pages Illustrations and timeline ISBN-10: 0982467605 ISBN-13: 978-0982467602

Read More

Book Review:
Warship Under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific Northwest

By Lorraine McConaghy University of Washington Press, Seattle Hardcover, 344 pages 53 illustrations, 5 maps, notes, bibliography, and index ISBN: 978-0-295-98955-6

Read More

Book Review:
When Logging Was Logging: 100 Years of Big Timber in Southwest Washington

By Karen Bertroch, Donna Gatens-Klint, Jim LeMonds, and Bryan Penttila The Donning Company Publishers, Virginia Beach, Virginia Hardcover, 176 pages Color and black-and-white photographs, index ISBN 9...

Read More

Book Review:
Women's Votes, Women's Voices: The Campaign for Equal Rights in Washington

By Shanna StevensonWashington State Historical Society, 2009Paperback, 114 pagesIllustrations, footnotes, bibliography, indexISBN: 978-0-917048-74-6 $24.95

Read More

Book Review:
Yankee on Puget Sound: Pioneer Dispatches of Edward Jay Allen, 1852-1855

By Karen L. Johnson & Dennis M. Larsen Paperback, 208 pages Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index Washington State University Press, 2013 ISBN 978-0-87422-315-6 $29.95

Read More

Bookwalter, Jerrold "Jerry" (1940-2023)

Jerry Bookwalter (1940-2023) was a pioneer wine grower and winery owner who helped bring the Washington wine industry to prominence. He arrived from California in 1976 to manage Sagemoor Farms, which ...

Read More

Boone, George (b. ca. 1844) and Florence (Ritchie) Boone (b. 1859) of Neptune Beach, Lummi Reservation

George and Florence (Ritchie) Boone and their family had the original allotment at Neptune Beach on the Lummi Reservation. This history of the family was contributed by Cheryl Metcalf.

Read More

Boone, William E. (1830-1921)

William E. Boone, Seattle's premiere architect prior to the great fire of 1889, became one of few architects to continue practice after the Panic of 1893. He also designed significant buildings in Tac...

Read More

Boren, Carson Dobbins (1824-1912), Mary Ann Kays Boren (ca. 1830-1905), and Family

Carson Dobbins Boren and Mary Ann Kays Boren were among the first Anglo-Americans to settle in King County. With their infant, Livonia Gertrude Boren, known as Gertrude (1850-1912), they left Illinois...

Read More

Boreson, Stan (1925-2017)

Musician, recording artist, humorist, and pioneering '50s kiddie-TV show star -- Stan Boreson was Everett's king of Scandinavian humor. He has brought joy to generations in his native Northwest, acros...

Read More

Borst, Jeremiah (1830-1890)

Jeremiah Borst is considered to be the father of the Snoqualmie Valley, located in north central King County. A soft-spoken man with a lisp, he was the first permanent non-Indian settler in the valley...

Read More

Borst, Kate (1855-1938)

Kate Kanim Borst was a Native American woman who was the third wife of Snoqualmie Valley settler Jeremiah Borst. During her lifetime, she witnessed the transformation of the valley from prairies and I...

Read More

Bothell -- Thumbnail History

Loggers founded the King County community that became Bothell in the 1880s. After the trees were cut, Bothell became a farm community on the highway between Seattle and Everett. After World War II, th...

Read More