Northwest Books

Excellent book discussing the size, coloring, range and habitat of all species found in WA, Oregon, Idaho, and B.C. Yes its from 1975 but the information is still pretty accurate for anyone trying to identify an animal and makes a useful reference for research. A must own for any field zoologist in the northwest.

I read this book because it has been fabled in our family that this is a long distant relative of ours. I waited for this book to come out for months and just had to pre-order it here. I absolutely loved how the book was set up; the reader only knew what the readers of the papers at that time knew. It also included a few pictures (the first I have ever seen) and actual newspaper articles. I really enjoyed reading this book.

This is a wonderful book for anyone who has ever visited Manito Park in Spokane,Washington. The authors really do a wonderful job researching their material and writing a book you will enjoy forever. I hope to obtain all his books eventually as I grew up in Spokane.

This book is simply the most comprehesive book of the common coastal fauna of the British Isles and Ireland. To identify animals to species level without this book has previously been a tiresome task searching for suitable keys. In this book though all the common animals are keyed and a useful reference to the source journals is also given.

This is such a great book about frontier life by a real frontier woman. Her life was amazing. You get such a real sense of what life was like back then told, first had, not by someone else recounting Martha Black's thoughts, but her real words (I love the words of that time!) about her experiences, triumphs and tragedies. If you ever wanted to know what it was like for a middle class white women of independent mind to live in the late 1800's and the early half of the 1900's, both in the US and Canada, then this is the read for you.

Mr. Killion delivers a story about a classic airliner which will delight everyone - whether they simply enjoy excellent photographs of airplanes, or are interested in the more technical aspects of air travel. The author even included copies of the checklists and performance charts used by the aircrews of TWA and Eastern Air Lines, respectively. This is a well researched book with information provided by those intimately familiar with this legendary airplane.

Grey Owl lived and worked among many people who survived by canoeing, transporting goods, trapping, hunting, fishing, and often living at great distance from other human beings - with whom they might have enjoyed talking and comparing stories. He decided to put some of this lifestyle down on paper, in the form of a book. In this work he describes the lifestyle, and its hardships, but mainly the joys that became such a motivation for his own choices in life. It isn't an academic monograph, but it IS several other things: a collection of stories shared around a campfire, a description of a lifestyle that is very Canadian and is now almost gone, and a window on lives that could be happy, even in solitude.

Mexicans In The Midwest 1900-1932 by Juan R. Garcia (Head of the Department of History, University of Arizona) is a scholarly examination of Mexican migration to the American Midwest, and the conditions under which the migrants lived, including (but not limited to) poor, overcrowded, or virtually nonexistent housing and racial discrimination. An extensive and meticulous academic study of everything from songs and poetry to (often brutal) labor conditions, citizenship issues, and so much more, Mexicans In The Midwest 1900-1932 is a confidently recommended and fact-filled contribution which has earned a welcome entry in to scholarly and academic library American Regional History and Chicano/American Cultural Studies reference collections.

Many folks do not realize the rich history and important role Michigan played in our country's history. It was being colonized at the same time - and was every bit of a colony - as the original thirteen. Detroit was founded in 1701, just 19 years after Philadelphia, and has thrived (for better or worse) ever since.
What makes this book such a find is that it is soley written in the hand and language of those early settlers, going back to 1665 when the French settlers were spreading God's word to the Indians and continuing through the Indian wars of Pontiac, the Revolutionary War, early settlements in the lower penninsula, the Civil War, through the automobile industry, up into recent times.
The most interesting entries are those written by the simple folk trying to etch out a life in this wilderness, such as the life of a new school teacher in 1866 who writes of having 89 students in her one room schoolhouse, as well as the surveyors who wrote off Michigan as a water logged wasteland. The life of a logger, a first hand description of the sounds of the Civil War, the birth of the GOP in 1854, and into the electric light and telephone age of 1907. This book is a wealth of information, taking the reader back into time, visiting the early folks of our great state.
A must for local history buffs and social historians.

James Shortridge employs unique research techniques and an innovative way of thinking to provide an original perspective on what and where the American Middle West is. He studies popular literature to search for the prevalence of the term "Middle West," and he utilizes survey techniques to measure how people define where it is. He finds that its image has remained fairly constant--American pastoralism--but its location has shifted from the edge of the Great Plains toward the east, and then back toward the west once again. Similarly, its image has waxed and waned in American culture, from being the paragon of the real American character and soul to being a rural backwater. This book provides tremendous insights into the meaning of the one region in America whose self identity remains uncertain.