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Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly...
ISBN: 9780295746098
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Outriders
Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled cowboys succeed. In the mythos of this quintessentially western sport, the hero is often a stoic white man...
ISBN: 9780295746777
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The City Is More Than Human
An Animal History of Seattle
Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History AssociationSeattle...
ISBN: 9780295745718
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Counterpunch
The Cultural Battles over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West
Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the sport’s meteoric rise in...
ISBN: 9780295744322
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Bracero Railroaders
The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West
Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican...
ISBN: 9780295744278
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Native Students at Work
American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945
Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside,...
ISBN: 9780295744285
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Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity...
ISBN: 9780295743615
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A Chemehuevi Song
The Resilience of a Southern Paiute Tribe
The Chemehuevi of the Twenty-Nine Palms tribe of Southern California stands as a testament to the power of perseverance. This small, nomadic band of Southern Paiute Indians has been repeatedly marginalized...
ISBN: 9780295742762
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Power in the Telling
Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era
From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon. This prompted objections from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who already...
ISBN: 9780295743363
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Asians in Colorado
A History of Persecution and Perseverance in the Centennial State
Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver...
ISBN: 9780295743653
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Alaska's Skyboys
Cowboy Pilots and the Myth of the Last Frontier
This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism....
ISBN: 9780295742786
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Skid Road
An Informal Portrait of Seattle
Skid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most...
ISBN: 9780295743493
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Before Yellowstone
Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research...
ISBN: 9780295742205
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Chinook Resilience
Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River
The Chinook Indian Nation—whose ancestors lived along both shores of the lower Columbia River, as well as north and south along the Pacific coast at the river’s mouth—continue to reside near...
ISBN: 9780295742267
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Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
“Company town.” The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores of...
ISBN: 9780295742915
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The Portland Black Panthers
Empowering Albina and Remaking a City
Portland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.”...
ISBN: 9780295742717
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Empire Maker
Aleksandr Baranov and Russian Colonial Expansion into Alaska and Northern California
A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia’s...
ISBN: 9780295741727
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Trout Culture
How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture:...
ISBN: 9780295741703
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Too High and Too Steep
Reshaping Seattle’s Topography
Residents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its...
ISBN: 9780295999401
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Native Seattle
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses...
ISBN: 9780295741345
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