Author: James A. Gibbs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780832302541
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Author: James A. Gibbs Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258813048
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Jim Gibbs
Publisher: Portland, Or. : Binfords & Mort
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Examines the history and purpose of lighthouses and describes notable examples around the world, including the building of St. George Reef in Tillamook, Lighthouses in San Diego, San Francisco, Puget Sound, Columbia Coast, and Alaska.

Author: Adam M. Grohman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329633237
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Sentinels and Saviors of the Seas is a collection of sixty-five brief histories of the United States Coast Guard and its predecessor services and agencies.

Author: Jim Gibbs
Publisher: Portland, Or. : Binfords & Mort
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Examines the history and purpose of lighthouses and describes notable examples around the world, including the building of St. George Reef in Tillamook, Lighthouses in San Diego, San Francisco, Puget Sound, Columbia Coast, and Alaska.

Author: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Coast of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Francis Ross Holland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486255767
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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A history of the lighthouse which examines its technical development in the United States

Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Tales of ghosts inhabiting the Pacific Northwest include stories of haunted houses, departed loved ones, and disturbed Native American burial sites

Author: Dennis M. Powers
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806528427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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One of the most rugged expanses in the continental U.S., the coast of northern California and Oregon saw frequent shipping disasters in the 19th century, before Congress ordered the construction of lighthouses on such dangerous promontories as Heceta Head, Cape Mendocino and a seaward-trending pile of rocks called St. George Reef. The brave, resourceful engineer who directed the Tillamook Rock lighthouse construction, Alexander Ballantyne, was later engaged for the St. George job, and it's this story that author Powers (Treasure Ship) chronicles here. Without any maps to illustrate it, however, readers will need an atlas to follow the movement of men and ships up and down the coast. Later chapters describing lighthouse life prove less problematic; lighthouse keepers were fascinating, courageous characters (and included a good number of women) who not only kept lights burning and fog horns sounding, but also risked life and limb to rescue people stranded in torrential weather.