Books from Washington State University Press
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Seasoned with Words: A Cookbook : Stories, Memoirs & Poems about Food
By Oregon Writers Colony"Sixty-plus members and friends of Oregon Writers Colony wrote vignettes and recipes for this cookbook to inaugurate the Colonyhouse Collection. New York Times best-selling authors, regional and national award winners,...
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Lewis and Clark Reframed: Examining Ties to Cook, Vancouver, and Mackenzie
By David L. NicandriBased on new material as well as revised essays from popular history journals, "Lewis and Clark Reframed" examines several curious and seemingly inexplicable aspects of the journey after the Corps of Discovery crossed the Rocky Mountains.
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New Visions in Asian American Studies: Diversity, Community, Power
By Franklin NgIncludes essays on demographic, political, economic, and social changes affecting people of Southeast Asian, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese ancestry -- in Hawaii and on the U.S. mainland. Special sections on...
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Snowbound
By Ladd HamiltonIn 1893, three New Yorkers, their guide, and a camp cook were caught by an early winter in the Bitterroot Mountains, and forced by their own ill luck and bad...
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Color: Latino Voices in the Pacific Northwest
By Lorane A. WestColor presents a tapestry of poignant conversations with people who have come from various Central and South American cultures and backgrounds, all with the common thread of speaking the Spanish...
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This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident
By Ladd HamiltonThe story of the infamous murder and robbery of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder and his companions during the 1860s gold rush is legendary in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Ladd Hamilton...
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Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest
By Clifford E. Trafzer, Richard D. ScheuermanThis story of western expansion and Indian-white conflict is sensitively retold from the perspective of Native Americans. Renegade Tribe examines written and oral sources left by both cultures.
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Clarence C. Dill: The Life of a Western Politician
By Kerry E. IrishClarence C. Dill won election in 1914 as a U.S. Representative from Spokane, Washington, despite being a political newcomer and a Democrat in a Republican stronghold. He led Congress in...
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Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas-fir Forest
By Jane Claire Dirks-EdmundsThis gracefully written story shows all that is lost when we destroy ancient stands of trees--as revealed through a 60-year study of the flora and fauna in an Oregon Coast...
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Lewis and Clark Trail Maps, a Cartographic Reconstruction
By Martin PlamondonBy using measurements and notes in William Clark's journals, Plamondon has created maps depicting the Corps of Discovery's route on the Missouri River from Illinois to North Dakota in 1804....
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Made in Hanford: The Bomb that Changed the World
By Hill WilliamsOn the eve of World War II, news of an astonishing breakthrough filtered out of Germany. Scientists there had split uranium atoms. Physicists in the United States scrambled to verify...
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Spokane & the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology
By David Hodges StrattonEssential aspects about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest are presented here in one succinct volume. This landmark collection features essays by noted national and...
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A Chain of Hands
By Carol Ryrie BrinkAt the time of her death in 1981, Carol Brink retained one remaining unpublished manuscript--the one that people in Idaho had been waiting for years to see. In A Chain...
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Confederate Raider in the North Pacific: The Saga of the C.S.S. Shenandoah, 1864-65
By Murray MorganThe Civil War's final skirmishes took place not in the South, but in the Bering Sea, after the great conflict had officially ended. In Confederate Raider, noted Northwest historian Murray...
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The Wenatchee Valley and Its First Peoples: Thrilling Grandeur, Unfulfilled Promise
By Richard ScheuermanThe native people of the mid-Columbia nurture a deep spiritual connection to their surroundings.
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Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot
By Richard D. Scheuerman, Michael O. Finley"Born to T'siyiyak, a champion horse racer, and Com-mus-ni, the daughter of legendary Chief Wlyawllkt, Kamiakin from an early age helped tend his family's expanding herds. He wintered with relatives...
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Almost a Hero: The Voyages of John Meares, R.N., to China, Hawaii, and the Northwest Coast
By J. Richard NokesBeginning in 1786, Captain John Meares of Great Britain bravely explored and charted routes in the North Pacific, but his bold attempt to dominate the rich new fur trade between...
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The Pull of Moving Water
By Alice Koskela"In this coming-of-age memoir, Alice Koskela captures that peculiar mix of innocence and ruthlessness that is childhood - that time when we know far less than we think we do,...
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Northwest Women: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources on the History of Oregon and Washington Women, 1787-1970
Northwest Women features concise descriptions of more than 700 books and articles that examine the contributions of Washington and Oregon women -- bringing to light generations of scholarship about celebrated...
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Spanning Washington: Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State
By Richard Hobbs, Craig E. HolstineDesigned first and foremost to be practical, bridges nevertheless are often breathtaking in their construction, combining function and aesthetics. The historic structures that span the Evergreen State's highways are no...