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America's Nuclear Wastelands (Paperback)
Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup
Max S. Power

In America's Nuclear Wastelands, Max S. Power uses non-technical language to present a brief overview of nuclear weapons history and contamination issues, as well as a description of the institutional and political environment. He provides a background for understanding the major value conflicts and associated political dynamics, and makes recommendations for navigating long-term stewardship, but his key purpose is to demonstrate the critical role of public participation, and in so doing, encourage citizens to take action regarding local and national policies related to nuclear production and waste disposal.

Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index • 5½" x 8¼" • 216 pages
Environment/Contemporary Issues

Price : US$19.95

Crooked River Country (Paperback)
Wranglers, Rogues, and Barons
David Braly

North Central Oregon's hostile country and severe climate bred genuine Wild West legends—hardy souls who defied immense adversity. Despite range wars, drought, lawlessness, and economic depression, a desolate wilderness ultimately became an industrial power.

Photographs • map • bibliography • index • 6" x 9" • 344 pages (2007)
Oregon/Northwest History/Native American/Northwest Culture/Pioneers/Adventurers

Price : US$24.95

Fields of Toil (Paperback)
A Migrant Family’s Journey
Isabel Valle

As a newspaper reporter on special assignment, Isabel Valle lived and traveled with a migrant family for an entire year. WSU Press, in collaboration with the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, compiled her award-winning reports in this dramatic book.

Photographs • map • index • 6" x 9" • 240 pages (1994)
Multicultural Themes/Contemporary Issues

Price : US$14.95

Finding Chief Kamiakin (Paperback)
The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot by Richard D. Scheuerman and Michael O. Finley; photographs by John Clement.

Finding Chief Kamiakin is the story of a prominent chief of the Yakamas; leaders of both the Sahaptin and Salish tribes often sought his counsel. Through personal aptitude as well as family bonds, he emerged as one of the region's most influential chiefs. He cautiously welcomed White newcomers and sought to learn beneficial aspects of their culture. His dignified manner and attire impressed both soldiers and missionaries.

In the 1850s, the arrival of unprecedented numbers of White immigrants caused upheaval that would threaten the very existence of the Plateau's native people. On May 29, 1855, the Walla Walla Council commenced with a brief meeting attended by some 5,000 Indians, including Chief Kamiakin. Two weeks later, he reluctantly signed the Yakima Treaty. He also resolved to fight against the destruction of his people and desecrations upon the land.

Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index • 9" x 10½" • 288 pages

Price : US$34.95

Greenscapes (Paperback)
Olmsted's Pacific Northwest
Joan Hockaday

Like his famous stepfather and mentor Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed New York’s Central Park, landscape architect John Charles Olmsted believed that pastoral spaces were integral to a healthy urban life. He produced designs for Pacific Northwest university campuses and cities. Meticulous, intensely observant, industrious, and visionary, he left a legacy that is still enjoyed daily by people across the region.

Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index • 9" x 10½" • 196 pages

Price : US$29.95

Making the Grade (Paperback)
Plucky Schoolmarms of Kittitas Country
Barb Owen

In Making the Grade, thirteen former Kittitas country schoolmarms reflect fondly on their days of teaching in remote locales between 1914 and 1939. Facing their ordeals with creativity, dedication, and pluck, they enhanced the lives of children, and earned the adoration of rural populations.

Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index • 6" x 9" • 240 pages

Price : US$19.95

Native River (Paperback)
The Columbia Remembered
William D. Layman

In images and narratives Native River recreates the Mid-Columbia untamed, as it once was before the building of seven major dams. Layman focuses on the 350-mile reach of the middle Columbia River-from Priest Rapids in south-central Washington to the U.S. Canadian border.

Illustrations • photographs • maps • index • 11" x 9" • 208 pages (2002)
Best Sellers/Nature/Environment/Washington

Price : US$29.95

Snowbound (Hardbound)
Ladd Hamilton

Snowbound is the scandalous, true tale of the 1893 Carlin hunting party, whose adventure of a lifetime became an unthinkable tragedy.

Illustrations • photographs • bibliography • maps • 6" x 9" • 248 pages (1997)
Pioneers/Adventurers/Best Sellers/Montana/Novels/Western Literature/Northwest History

Price : US$25.00

Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 (Hardbound)
As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented with Accounts by other Overland Travelers
Weldon Willis Rau

The 1852 overland migration was the largest on record. It also was a year in which cholera took a terrible toll in lives. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year.

Illustrations • photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index • 6" x 9" • 256 pages (2001) Best Sellers/Oregon/Northwest History/Pioneers/Adventurers

Price : US$35.00

Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 (Paperback)
As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented with Accounts by other Overland Travelers
Weldon Willis Rau

The 1852 overland migration was the largest on record. It also was a year in which cholera took a terrible toll in lives. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year.

Illustrations • photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index • 6" x 9" • 256 pages (2001) Best Sellers/Oregon/Northwest History/Pioneers/Adventurers

Price : US$18.95

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