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Experiences in a Promised Land
Essays in Pacific Northwest History
The Pacific Northwest, like many other regions of the United States, has been touted as the Promised Land. As early as the 1830s, “Oregon fever” brought missionaries, promoters, speculators, politicians, and settlers to the nation’s...
ISBN: 9780295963297
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Radical Heritage
Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917
Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the forty-ninth parallel and the reason for the eventual demise of the socialist movement in Washington...
ISBN: 9780295956534
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Long Day's Journey
The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West
In Long Day’s Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and...
ISBN: 9780295976914
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