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The Deadliest Indian War in the West$18.95 Caxton Press Gregory Michno The Snake War is one of the least known of the many clashes of culture that occurred in the American West during the 19th century. Gregory Michno, author of several critically acclaimed books on America’s Indian wars, gives readers the first comprehensive look at the natives, soldiers and settlers who clashed on the high desert of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Northern California in a struggle that over a four-year period claimed more lives than any other Western Indian War. 6x9, 400 pages, paper, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Necktie PartiesLegal Executions in Oregon, 1851 - 1905 $16.95 0-87004-446-x Caxton Press By Diane Goeres-Gardner. Diane Goeres-Gardner makes readers eyewitnesses to frontier justice. This is the story of the men who climbed the gallows steps and faced the hangman’s noose during the early years of settlement in Oregon. Today, capital punishment is a controversial topic, in the United States and around the world. That wasn’t the case during the 1800s on America’s western frontier. Executions were public events drawing hundreds—sometimes thousands—of spectators. The author examines the backgrounds of the condemned and their victims, the crimes and the investigations. She uses trial records, witness testimony, newspaper reports and other historical records to bring to life each of of the 50 cases. Contains the name of more than 1,500 residents of early-day Oregon. 6x9, paperback, 375 pages, illustrated, comprehensive index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Early Oregon Days $22.95 ISBN 0-87004-314-5 Caxton Press Edwin D. Culp How did people travel in the good old days? Ed Culp traces the history of transportation into and around the West, particularly into Oregon. Through the use of old photos, maps, drawings, advertisements, and transportation schedules, he illustrates how improvements have been made over time, with particular emphasis on the development of the railroad. 8½ x 11 paperback, 239 illustrations, 185 pages. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Ghost Towns of the Northwest$17.95 ISBN 0-87004-358-7 Caxton Press Norman D. Weis Sixty-two ghost towns from Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana are individually described with the history of each town and specific directions on how to find it. Nearly 20 are unknown to the general public, never before mentioned in print, or mysterious in origin and location. Many of Weis's great stories were found by listening to the old-timers who knew of these places firsthand. 6x9, paperback, 248 photographs, 16 maps, 319 pages, bibliography, index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Hatchet, Hands & Hoe Planting the Pioneer Spirit$15.95 ISBN 0-87004-372-2 Caxton Press Erica Calkins Historical gardening specialist Erica Calkins gives practical instructions and recipes for plants used by the pioneers. Original homestead recipes offer delicious yet simple dishes. The text is illustrated with historic photographs, drawings and photos of featured plants. A 12-page section includes full-color garden plans and identification photos of flowers, pioneer roses and unique plants. A rich resource list is provided for heirloom gardeners. Featured in 1999 Better Homes and Gardens Simply Perfect Roses & Old-Fashioned Flowers special edition. 6x9, paperback, photos, color section. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Holy Rollers: Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult
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In Search of Western Oregon$14.95 ISBN 0-87004-332-3 Caxton Press Ralph Friedman The definitive guide for things to see and to do in western Oregon! This volume is packed with historical details, folklore, anecdotes, geology, fishing, flora, fauna, biography, hiking trails, and a good deal more. These elements are combined with photos of thousands of off-the-beaten-path finds. For armchair travelers or active explorers. 6x9, paperback, 396 illustrations, 782 pages. Index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Manhunt: The Pursuit of Harry Tracy$18.95 ISBN 0-87004-392-7 Caxton Press Bill Gulick As the twentieth century began, the American West was changing. Trolley cars wisked passengers around cities like Portland and Seattle. Telephones were becoming commonplace. The days of the horse were numbered. Even the old time outlaws like the James and Dalton gangs were gone. But just when folks thought the days of the Wild West were over, along came Harry Tracy--a new kind of badman--not a Jesse James--more like a protype for Clyde Barrow. On June 9, 1902, Harry Tracy shot his way out of the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, killing three guards. This violent act started a two-month, two-state manhunt unique in Northwest criminal history. Bill Gulick, dean of Northwest history writers, uses the accounts of newspaper reporters who covered the chase, to paint fascinating portraits of Tracy and his pursuers. Gulick also tells the stories of the men and women of Oregon and Washington who became unwilling participants in the Tracy saga when the fugitive barged into their daily lives. 6 x 9, paperback, 250 pages, illustrated. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Oregon Desert $17.95 ISBN 0-87004-434-6 Caxton Press E.R. Jackman and R.A. Long Wild horses run through this book! All of the desert animals shyly peek out from its pages! Desert towns spring to life before your eyes and swiftly decay. Stories of life on the desert are told with deep subtle humor, wisdom, and charm, producing a delightful book. 9x6, paper, 118 photographs, endsheet map, 407 pages, appendix, index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Oregon for the Curious $9.95 ISBN 0-87004-222-X Caxton Press Ralph Friedman Now in its eighth printing, this best-selling off-beat travel guide to Oregon specializes in those out-of-the-way places that ordinary guidebooks never mention. It is an invaluable companion for the discovery of a new and little known Oregon. 9x6, paperback, 221 illustrations, 4 maps, 246 pages, index. Paper [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Oregon's Golden Years: Bonanza of the West $14.95 ISBN 0-87004-254-8 Caxton Press Miles F. Potter Gold! A single handful of shiny nuggets changed Oregon from a quiet settlement in the Willamette Valley to a brawling frontier that stretched from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of adventuresome souls faced staggering hardships as they streamed across two thousand miles of America's wasteland and then, armed with pick and shovel, headed for the mines. 8½ x 11, paperback, 337 illustrations, 181 pages, bibliography, index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Our Native American Legacy; Northwest Towns with Indian Names
$17.95 ISBN 0-87004-401-x Caxton Press Sandy Nestor Many Pacific Northwest cities and towns bear names linked to the American Indians who inhabited the region thousands of years before the arrival of European explorers and settlers. Sandy Nestor spent years gathering information about towns in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska with Indian names. She offers a brief history of each community, profiles of the founders and an explanation of the origins of the town name. 9x6, paperback, 312 pages, maps, 50 photographs. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest$18.95 ISBN 0-87004-396-x Caxton Press Bill Gulick The bad men and women who roamed the Pacific Northwest in the early days never have received the recognition of their counterparts in other parts of the West, although their exploits often exceeded those of better known outlaws. In Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest, Bill Gulick rectifies that historical oversight. • Chief Bigfoot was a renegade giant who allegedly roamed the high desert of southern Idaho in the 1860s, bringing death and destruction to the early settlers. • Sheriff Henry Plummer's gang may have murdered more than 100 people in the Montana mining camps before outraged citizens gave him a "suspended sentence" on his own gallows. • Josephine Wolfe was a Walla Walla institution. When "Dutch Jo's" house was quarantined, the mayor, police and fire chiefs, two ministers and six merchants were marooned there for two weeks. • Gunfighter Hank Vaughn cut a wide swath for years in eastern Oregon. The last of the area's professional hellraisers died with his boots on . . . when his horse slipped on a new concrete sidewalk! These are just a few of the colorful characters you'll meet in Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest. 6x9, paperback,216 pages, photos, map. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Owyhee Trails: The West's Forgotten Corner$14.95 ISBN 0-87004-281-5 Caxton Press Mike Hanley with Ellis Lucia The Owyhees (pronounced oh-WAH-hees), sharp and ragged peaks rising from the high desert of Oregon and Idaho, have been the site of mining booms and Indian battles, holdups and range wars. Gold and silver abound on their slopes and their valleys are rich with water and pasture. Author Mike Hanley ranches near Jordan Valley, Oregon, in the shadow of the Owyhee Mountains. With Ellis Lucia, he recounts the boisterous past and present of this wild and rugged corner of the west. 6x9, paperback, 106 illustrations, 4 maps, 314 pages. index. Hardcover, $27.95 10 x 10, 124 pages full color, photographs. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Snake River Country $39.95 ISBN 0-87004-215-7 Caxton Press Bill Gulick Photography by Earl Roberge "Born in incredible beauty, flowing through incredible desolation, nourishing incredible fertility . . . This is the Snake River." The Snake is perhaps the last important wild river left in the Pacific Northwest, and has played a monumental role in exploration, empire-building, and settlement. Gulick tells of yesterday, as well as tomorrow for the Snake River, in this colorful book. 15x12, hardcover, boxed, 104 full color photographs, 2 endsheet maps, 195 pages, bibliography, index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Steamboats on Northwest Rivers$16.95 0-87004-438-9 Caxton Press Bill Gulick One hundred years before dams were built on the Columbia-Snake river system, steamboats carried cargo and people to the farthest reaches of these waterways, more than 500 miles inland. Where water flowed, sturdy boats and bold captains went--with no dams, locks or artificial navigation aids. The captains were a famous as today's sports stars. Their names and feats were known to travelers and river dwellers, just as the distinctive tone of each boat whistle was recognized by hero-worshiping boys who dreamed of growing up to be river captains. Bill Gulick, dean of Northwest history writers, tells the story of this colorful period in the region's history. 6 x 9, paper, 268 pages photographs, maps. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Other Side of Oregon$12.95 ISBN: 0-87004-352-8 Caxton Press By Ralph Friedman "A deepter dimension..." said Ralph Friedman when talking about his latest (and possibly greatest) book, The Other Side of Oregon. This volume is filled with stories about the people and places that make Oregon special, spiced with the author's philosophical tidbits. Paper, 6" x 9", 420 pages, illustrated, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Tracking Down Oregon $14.95 ISBN 0-87004-257-2 Caxton Press Ralph Friedman In Friedman's first collection of Oregon stories, he catches the spirit of the pioneer, the entrepreneur, the builders of Oregon. Interesting people and places are sprinkled throughout his narrative and he gives directions on how to find them, even if only from an armchair. 6x9, paperback, 113 illustrations, 306 pages. Index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Utter Disaster on the Oregon Trail, Vol. II$16.95 ISBN 970-9635828-2-8 Snake Country Publishing By Donald H. Shannon The greatest disaster to befall a emigrant party on the Oregon Trail occurred in September 1860 in what is now southwestern Idaho. A party of composed eight wagons and 44 men, women and children were attacked by hostile Indians. Almost two months later, a rescue party found 10 survivors clinging to life in rude shelters nearly 100 miles from where the train was first attacked. The survivors had resorted to canabalism to stay alive. Donald Shannon tells the story of the Utter-VanOrum massacres, clearing up many historical inaccuracies that had persisted for more than a century. 6 x 9 240 pages, illustrated [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Boise Massacre on the Oregon Trail, Vol.. 1$16.95 ISBN 0-9635828-1-x Snake Country Publishing By Donald H. Shannon Donald Shannon devoted more than two decades to documenting attacks on emigrant trains on the Oregon and California trails in the region that later became the state of Idaho. In The Boise Massacre on the Oregon Trail, Shannon details attacks that occurred in 1854 and 1859, including the grisly Ward Massacre on the Boise River near present-day Caldwell, Idaho. Included is the background of the Snake Indians: the Shoshone, Northern Paiute, and Bannock 6 x 9, 300 pages, illustrated, maps [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Amphibians and Reptilesof the Pacific Northwest $24.95 ISBN 0-89301-086-3 University of Idaho Press Nussbaum, Brodie, Storm This Northwest guide tells in readable fashion how to find and identify the various salamanders, frogs, turtles, lizards, and snakes that inhabit Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Paper, 336 pages, 95 photographs, 59 maps, 2 tables [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Fires, Faults and FloodsA Road and Trail Guide Exploring the Origins of the Columbia River Basin $19.95 0-89301-206-8 University of Idaho Press Marge and Ted Mueller Marge and Ted Mueller lead you on a fascinating tour of the Columbia River Basin, helping you explore the geologic events that shaped the region's unique features. 5.5 x 8.5, paper, 288 pages, 60 photographs, 75 maps, Index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Barns of the WestA Vanishing Legacy $29.95 ISBN 0-9631258-9-3 Historic Idaho Series Arthur A. Hart This book is for those who love the sight of picturesque old barns in the rich and varied landscape of the American West. It includes more than 200 photographs of barnes in Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and California. Includes information on how the barns were built, their distinctive features and why they are rapidly vanishing. 8.5x11. 112 pages, hardcover, color and black and white photos, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History Vol III: Oregon and Washington$34.95 ISBN 0-87004-366-8 Caxton Press Donald B. Robertson Volume III in Robertson's Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History series. This book catalogs virtually every steam railroad that owned or operated ten or more miles of track as a common carrier in Oregon and Washington. Emphasis is on the beginnings of railroads. Robertson has distilled tens of thousands of printed pages from several sources: railroading manuals, newspapers, US Geological Survey Maps, university libraries, and historical societies. Text, maps, charts, and historic photographs create an invaluable resource for railroad history students and enthusiasts. 8½ x 11, illustrations, maps, 338 pages, indexes for this volume plus a comprehensive index of Volumes I-III, inclusive, hardcover, boxed. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Owyhee Canyonlands$27.95 978-0-87004-464-9 Caxton Press Photographs by Mark Lisk, Essay by William Fox The Owyhee region of southwest Idaho is one of the truly unique areas in the continental United States. About 10,000 people inhabit this high desert, geographically larger than the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Natives, settlers and miners battled for control of the Owyhees during the 19th century. Today Owyhee Country contains some of the most spectacular, pristine canyonlands in the United States. Mark Lisk is a nationally-recognized outdoor photographer. He is author or contributor to several books dealing with Idaho’s natural beauty, including Salmon River Country, published by Caxton Press. Mark’s photographs of the Owyhees, presented with essays written by people who love the region, create a book in the tradition of Caxton award winners like Steens Mountain and Snake River Country. Hardcover, $27.95, 10 x 10, 124 pages full color, photographs. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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