Author: Harry Ritter
Publisher: West Winds Press
ISBN: 9781558686410
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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. A Washington resident himself, author Harry Ritter offers fifty-two vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that comprise an entertaining.
Washington's History
Author: Harry Ritter
Publisher: West Winds Press
ISBN: 9781558686410
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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. A Washington resident himself, author Harry Ritter offers fifty-two vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that comprise an entertaining.
Publisher: West Winds Press
ISBN: 9781558686410
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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. A Washington resident himself, author Harry Ritter offers fifty-two vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that comprise an entertaining.
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.
History of the State of Washington
Author: Edmond Stephen Meany
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Exploring Washington's Past
Author: Ruth Kirk
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295974439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A traveler's guide to Washington state, focusing on historical sites. Sections on various regions describe local history, with entries on towns and sites offering information on festivals, museums, and historic districts. Contains b&w photos, and a chronology. c. Book News Inc.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295974439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A traveler's guide to Washington state, focusing on historical sites. Sections on various regions describe local history, with entries on towns and sites offering information on festivals, museums, and historic districts. Contains b&w photos, and a chronology. c. Book News Inc.
The Washington Story
Author: Ruth Pelz
Publisher: Murray Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780931754098
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A history of Washington with information about the role of ethnic minorities and women in the historical development of the state.
Publisher: Murray Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780931754098
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A history of Washington with information about the role of ethnic minorities and women in the historical development of the state.
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?
Hiking through History Washington
Author: Nathan Barnes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149301188X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A beautiful, full-color guidebook to more than 40 of the best hikes following the history of the state of Washington.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149301188X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A beautiful, full-color guidebook to more than 40 of the best hikes following the history of the state of Washington.
Washington Territory
Author: Robert E. Ficken
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Established in 1853, Washington remained a territory for thirty-six years until admitted into the union in 1889. Divided by the Cascade Range and lacking an effective internal transportation system, Washington Territory made no practical sense as a political and economic entity until railroads finally unified the region in the mid-1880s. Ficken has written the definitive economic and political history of territorial Washington.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Established in 1853, Washington remained a territory for thirty-six years until admitted into the union in 1889. Divided by the Cascade Range and lacking an effective internal transportation system, Washington Territory made no practical sense as a political and economic entity until railroads finally unified the region in the mid-1880s. Ficken has written the definitive economic and political history of territorial Washington.
History of Washington
Author: Clinton A. Snowden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description