Author: Harry Ritter
Publisher: WestWinds Press
ISBN: 9781513261690
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author. An anything-but-dry history textbook in a take-it-with-you package, Washington's History is a fascinating walk through the sweeping story of a place and its people. For centuries, the natural beauty and riches of the Northwest have excited the human imagination, from its first peoples to seafaring explorers, to westward-thinking pioneers, to technological thinkers and giants. A Washington resident himself, author Harry Ritter offers fifty-five vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that comprise an entertaining and informative picture of life in the Far Northwest. Learn about the Natives, explorers, traders, missionaries, loggers, farmers, inventors, and politicians. From Chief Seattle to Dr. John McLoughlin, William E. Boeing, Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, these are the people at the epicenter of events that shaped the Evergreen State.
Washington's History, Revised Edition
Author: Harry Ritter
Publisher: WestWinds Press
ISBN: 9781513261690
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author. An anything-but-dry history textbook in a take-it-with-you package, Washington's History is a fascinating walk through the sweeping story of a place and its people. For centuries, the natural beauty and riches of the Northwest have excited the human imagination, from its first peoples to seafaring explorers, to westward-thinking pioneers, to technological thinkers and giants. A Washington resident himself, author Harry Ritter offers fifty-five vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that comprise an entertaining and informative picture of life in the Far Northwest. Learn about the Natives, explorers, traders, missionaries, loggers, farmers, inventors, and politicians. From Chief Seattle to Dr. John McLoughlin, William E. Boeing, Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, these are the people at the epicenter of events that shaped the Evergreen State.
Publisher: WestWinds Press
ISBN: 9781513261690
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author. An anything-but-dry history textbook in a take-it-with-you package, Washington's History is a fascinating walk through the sweeping story of a place and its people. For centuries, the natural beauty and riches of the Northwest have excited the human imagination, from its first peoples to seafaring explorers, to westward-thinking pioneers, to technological thinkers and giants. A Washington resident himself, author Harry Ritter offers fifty-five vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that comprise an entertaining and informative picture of life in the Far Northwest. Learn about the Natives, explorers, traders, missionaries, loggers, farmers, inventors, and politicians. From Chief Seattle to Dr. John McLoughlin, William E. Boeing, Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, these are the people at the epicenter of events that shaped the Evergreen State.
Building Washington
Author: Paul Dorpat
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961435790
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961435790
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Traveler's History of Washington
Author:
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870045165
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press What Happened Here? Travelers interested in history want to know about the history of the sites that they pass in the Evergreen State. Who but veteran author Bill Gulick could write the premier historical travel book on Washington?
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870045165
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press What Happened Here? Travelers interested in history want to know about the history of the sites that they pass in the Evergreen State. Who but veteran author Bill Gulick could write the premier historical travel book on Washington?
The State of Washington
Author: Elwood Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Includes the discovery settlement and development of Washington State; material development and natural resources of the State; industry and resources by county including statistics for the State and the history of Washington's World Fair Commission.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Includes the discovery settlement and development of Washington State; material development and natural resources of the State; industry and resources by county including statistics for the State and the history of Washington's World Fair Commission.
Hiking Washington's History
Author: Judy Bentley
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295748532
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
For thousands of years people have traveled across Washington’s spectacular terrain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the mountains, fishing sites and trade emporiums on the rivers, forests of old growth, and homesteads and towns on prairies. These traditional routes have been preserved in national parks, restored by cities and towns, salvaged from old railroad tracks, and opened to hikers by Indigenous communities. In this new, full-color edition of the first-ever hiking guide to the state’s historic trails, historian and hiker Judy Bentley teams up with veteran guidebook author Craig Romano to lead adventurers of all abilities along trails on the coast, over mountains, through national forests, across plateaus, and on the banks of the Columbia River. Features include: • 44 hikes, including 12 new additions • Full-color trail maps • A trails timeline that connects hikes to key events • Updated trail descriptions • Accounts from diaries, journals, and archives • Historical overviews of 8 regions of the state • Contemporary and historical photographs Bentley and Romano offer an essential boots-on-the ground history of some of the state’s most fascinating places.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295748532
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
For thousands of years people have traveled across Washington’s spectacular terrain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the mountains, fishing sites and trade emporiums on the rivers, forests of old growth, and homesteads and towns on prairies. These traditional routes have been preserved in national parks, restored by cities and towns, salvaged from old railroad tracks, and opened to hikers by Indigenous communities. In this new, full-color edition of the first-ever hiking guide to the state’s historic trails, historian and hiker Judy Bentley teams up with veteran guidebook author Craig Romano to lead adventurers of all abilities along trails on the coast, over mountains, through national forests, across plateaus, and on the banks of the Columbia River. Features include: • 44 hikes, including 12 new additions • Full-color trail maps • A trails timeline that connects hikes to key events • Updated trail descriptions • Accounts from diaries, journals, and archives • Historical overviews of 8 regions of the state • Contemporary and historical photographs Bentley and Romano offer an essential boots-on-the ground history of some of the state’s most fascinating places.
A History of the State of Washington
Author: Lloyd Spencer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History of the State of Washington
Author: Edmond Stephen Meany
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A History of the State of Washington
Author: Lancaster Pollard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A History of Whidbey's Island, Whidby Island, State of Washington
Author: George Albert Kellogg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258464707
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258464707
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Walking Washington's History
Author: Judy Bentley
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities, a follow-up to Judy Bentley’s bestselling Hiking Washington’s History, showcases the state’s engaging urban history through guided walks in ten major cities. Using narrated walks, maps, and historic photographs, Bentley reveals each city’s aspirations. She begins in Vancouver, established as a fur trade emporium on a plain above the Columbia River, and ends with Bellevue, a bedroom community turned edge city. In between, readers crisscross the state, with walks through urban Olympia, Walla Walla, Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, Bellingham, Yakima, and Spokane. Whether readers pass through these cities as tourists or set out to explore their home terrain, they will discover both the visible and invisible markers of Washington history underfoot.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Walking Washington’s History: Ten Cities, a follow-up to Judy Bentley’s bestselling Hiking Washington’s History, showcases the state’s engaging urban history through guided walks in ten major cities. Using narrated walks, maps, and historic photographs, Bentley reveals each city’s aspirations. She begins in Vancouver, established as a fur trade emporium on a plain above the Columbia River, and ends with Bellevue, a bedroom community turned edge city. In between, readers crisscross the state, with walks through urban Olympia, Walla Walla, Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, Bellingham, Yakima, and Spokane. Whether readers pass through these cities as tourists or set out to explore their home terrain, they will discover both the visible and invisible markers of Washington history underfoot.