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Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography
With support from the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington, the Sick Series in Western History and Biography features scholarly books on the peoples and issues that have defined and shaped the American West. Through intellectually challenging and engaging books of general interest, the series seeks to deepen and expand our understanding of the American West as a region and its role in the making of the United States and the modern world.
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Reclaiming the Reservation
Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included...
ISBN: 9780295745855
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Gold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went...
ISBN: 9780295744124
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In Defense of Wyam
Native-White Alliances and the Struggle for Celilo Village
When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social...
ISBN: 9780295743585
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Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920
This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West...
ISBN: 9780295743639
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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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Henry M. Jackson
A Life in Politics
Henry M. Jackson ranks as one of the great legislators in American history. With a Congressional career spanning the tenure of nine Presidents, Jackson had an enormous impact on the most crucial...
ISBN: 9780295995397
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Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America
Warren G. Magnuson served as U.S. senator from the state of Washington for six terms. The sheer sweep of his accomplishments is astonishing: authoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act, protecting Puget...
ISBN: 9780295995342
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Encounters in Avalanche Country
A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920
Every winter settlers of the U.S. and Canadian Mountain West could expect to lose dozens of lives to deadly avalanches. This constant threat to trappers, miners, railway workers-and their families-forced...
ISBN: 9780295995403
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The Rising Tide of Color
Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific
The Rising Tide of Color challenges familiar narratives of race in American history that all too often present the U.S. state as a benevolent force in struggles against white supremacy, especially...
ISBN: 9780295995427
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Power and Place in the North American West
Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American...
ISBN: 9780295977737
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The Nature of Borders
Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea
Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical AssociationWinner of the 2013 Hal Rothman Award from the Western History AssociationWinner of the 2013 John Lyman Book...
ISBN: 9780295991825
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The Great Columbia Plain
A Historical Geography, 1805-1910
Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of the richest farmlands in the nation. This work is...
ISBN: 9780295974859
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The Battle for Butte
Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864–1906
First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine history: rich in detail, full of finely...
ISBN: 9780295986074
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Parallel Destinies
Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies
The Canadian West and the American Northwest offer a valuable setting for considering issues of borders and borderlands. The regions contain certain similarities, and during the first half of the...
ISBN: 9780295982533
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Atomic Frontier Days
Hanford and the American West
Outstanding Title by Choice MagazineOn the banks of the Pacific Northwest’s greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding...
ISBN: 9780295990972
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The Power of Promises
Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest
Treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest have had profound and long-lasting implications for land ownership, resource access, and political rights in both the United States and...
ISBN: 9780295988399
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Shadow Tribe
The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established...
ISBN: 9780295990200
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Death of Celilo Falls
For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River....
ISBN: 9780295985466
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A Home for Every Child
The Washington Children's Home Society in the Progressive Era
Adoption has been a politically charged subject since the Progressive Era, when it first became an established part of child welfare reform. In A Home for Every Child, Patricia Susan Hart...
ISBN: 9780295990644
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Warship under Sail
The USS Decatur in the Pacific West
Ordered to join the Pacific Squadron in 1854, the sloop of war Decatur sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, through the Strait of Magellan to Valparaiso, Honolulu, and Puget Sound, then on to San Francisco,...
ISBN: 9780295989556
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