PACIFIC
NORTHWEST
NON-FICTION
Sehome High School
10/10/2005
001.9 Baumann
Baumann, Elwood D.
Monsters of North America.
New York : Watts,
1978.
Presents accounts of encounters with six unidentified
creatures in
the United States and Canada, including
Sasquatch and Ogopogo.
001.9 Scientist
The scientist looks at the Sasquatch. Moscow : University Press
of Idaho, 1977.
Krantz, G.: Introduction and
commentary.--Sprague, R.: Editorial.--Rigsby, B.:
Some
Pacific Northwest native language names for the
sasquatch
phenomenon.--Suttles, W.: On the cultural track of
the
sasquatch.--Krants, G.: Anatomy of the sasquatch
foot.--Krantz, G.: Additional notes on sasquatch
foot
anatomy.--Krantz, G.: Sasquatch
handprints.--Strasenburg,
G.: Perceptions and images of the wild man.--Bayanov,
D.A.:
A hominologist's view from Moscow, USSR. The Pacific
Northwest's phenomenon in photographs and drawings.
016.9795 Reading
Reading for young people: The Northwest.
Chicago : ALA, 1980.
An annotated bibliography of fiction, folktales,
poetry,
drama, music, biography, informational books, and
audio-visual materials focusing on the northwestern
U.S.,
compiled for readers from the primary grades
through the
10th grade.
266 Smet
DeSmet, Pierre-Jean.
Oregon missions and travels over the Rocky
Mountains in 1845-46. Fairfield, WA : Ye
Galleon Press,
1978.
Father De Smet was a pioneering Jesuit missionary
among the Indians of the Northwest, establishing
many
missions from Missoula to the Willamette River. The
letters
included in this book were from his last year of
travels to
Indian tribes, before returning to Missouri in
1846.
289.3 Burt
Burt, Olive Woolley, 1894-. Brigham Young. New
York, : J.
Messner, [1956].
A biography of the Mormon convert who
later became the President of his church and led
his people
to the Great Salt Lake Valley to establish a large
Mormon
colony.
299.7 Barnett
Barnett, H.G. Indian shakers : a messianic cult of the
Pacific
Northwest. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University,
1957.
One of the many messianic cultures that have
emerged among
an oppressed people is the Indian Shakers of the
Northwest,
originating with John Slocum, an Indian who lived
near
Olympia, Washington.
301.412 Gallagher
Gallagher, Dorothy.
Hannah's daughters : six generations of an
American family, 1876-1976. New York :
Crowell, c1976.
Examines a family of women in Washington state,
ranging in
age from 97 to age 2, comparing their lives in
photographs
and personal reminiscences. Six generations of
women in the
same family relate the stories of their lives in
words and
family pictures. Daily life in Washington state
from 1876 to
1975.
305.8 Wa
Washington (State). Commission on Asian Pacific
American Affairs.
Asian Pacific American Heritage Resource guide for
Washington State K-12 Schools. Seattle : CAPAA,
2001.
Asian/Pacific Americans in Washington: Overview of
settlement patterns; economic role; exclusionary
and
restrictive legislation; resistance and community
development; World War II; Postwar era; -- Asian
Americans:
Problems with the model minority concept; rapid
increases in
the Asian American population; Korean Americans;
Asian
Indian and Pakistani Immigrants; Southeast Asian
Americans;
Asian Americans-a diverse group; Chinese, japanese,
and
Filipino Americans; Chinese Americans; Japanese
Americans;
Filipino Americans; Teaching strategies;
references;
annotated bibliography -- History bursting with
telling:
Asian Americans in Washington State: Migration,
Labor,
Community, Conclusion -- Asian Pacific American
History:
selected dates and events -- Asian Pacific American
firsts
-- Asian Pacific American Celebration Ideas --
Resources:
APA Curriculum development; general resource
information;
general cultural; video collections; books;
language
interpretation.
Describes various information resources for
the study of Asian Americans in Washington state.
306 Mo
Moody, Fred. Seattle
and the demons of ambition : a love story.
1st ed. New
York : St. Martin's Press, 2003.
Provides a
history of Seattle from one of its life-long
residents and
discusses the economic renaissance in the late
1980s, the
cultural phenomenon of grunge music, and the
economic
disaster during the second Bush administration.
331.6 Heaps
Heaps, Willard Allison, 1908-. Wandering workers; : the story of
American migrant farm workers and their problems,. New
York, : Crown Publishers, [1968]. Through interviews with
migrant workers, the author examines their problems
of
employment, housing, and child welfare and
education,
including those on the Pacific coast.
331.89 Friedheim
Friedheim, Robert L.
The Seattle general strike.
Seattle :
University of Washington Press, 1964. The Seattle general
strike of 1919, one of only two major general
strikes in
American
history, helped frighten Americans into permitting
and approving repression of the political Left
after World
War I, leading to the Red scare in 1919-1920.
333.7 Brooks
Brooks,
Paul. The pursuit of wilderness. Boston, : Houghton
Mifflin, 1971.
Describes six continuing battles in defense
of the American wilderness, including the North
Cascades
National Park and Glacier Peak wilderness area,
attempts to
dam the Yukon River in Alaska, a jet superport near
the
Everglades, and other environmental battles.
Attempts to
show that articulate public opinion can save our
wilderness
heritage.
333.7 Coastal
Bish, Robert L.
Coastal resource use : decisions on Puget Sound.
Seattle : University of Washington, 1975. Puget Sound
Region: geography & natural resources.
Population,
Urbanization, employment and income. Use of Puget
Sound
resources. Resource allocation and political
organization.
Governments in the Puget Sound region. Resolving
environmental conflicts. Washington Shoreline Management
Act. Governing Puget Sound in the future.
333.7 Toole
Toole, Kenneth Ross, 1920-. The rape of the Great Plains :
Northwestern America, cattle and coal. 1st ed. Boston :
Little, Brown, and Co., c1976. Explores the coal-mining and
utility interests that are preparing to stripmine
the
Northern Great Plains, the issues involved, the
struggle
with local citizens, and alternatives.
333.75 Cowan
Cowan, Charles S.
The enemy is fire.
Seattle, WA : Superior,
1961.
Discusses the fighting of forest fires in Washington
state from
1910 to 1958, including the role of the Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC), highlights of the 1930's,
and the
fire records of the time.
333.75 Hi
Hill, Julia Butterfly.
The legacy of Luna : the story of a tree,
a woman, and the struggle to save the redwoods. 1st ed.
San Francisco, Calif. : Harper San Francisco,
c2000.
Contains the experiences of Julia Butterfly Hill,
who lived
in a giant redwood for two years to protest the
deforestation of old growth forests.
333.75 Langston
Langston, Nancy.
Forest dreams, forest nightmares : the paradox
of old
growth in the Inland West. Seattle : University of
Washington Press, c1995. Explores the severe damage
inflicted upon the forests of the inland West due
to fires,
insects, epidemics, and disease and the role
mismanagement
played in the process.
333.75 Stevens
Stevens, James.
Green power : the story of Public Law 273.
Seattle, WA : Superior Publishing, 1958. One man's view of
the public law, passed in 1944, which was designed
to
promote the stability of forest industries,
employment,
communities and taxable forest wealth through
continued
supply of timber.
333.91 Palmer
Palmer, Tim. The
Columbia : sustaining a modern resource.
Seattle, WA : The Mountaineers, 1997. A place of great
consequence -- One watershed -- Long swim home --
The
forests --
The value of land -- Fate of a river basin --
Sources. A
journey down the mighty Columbia river, from the
dreams of early explorers to current day reality,
with an
insightful vision for her future. Explores the
conflict of
ancient cultures and civilization as humans evolve.
333.916 Collins
Collias, Eugene E.
Atlas of physical and chemical properties of
Puget Sound and its approaches. Seattle, :
University of
Washington, 1974.
This atlas is intended to privide useful
information for anyone making decisions based upon
physical
and chemical characteristics of Puget Sound and for
anyone
doing research on estuaries. Provides a profile
location
chart, temperature, salinity, density, oxygen and
phosphate
levels from Pillar Point to Devil's Head, Bush
Point to
Lynch Cove, Dabob Bay to Lunch Cove, Possession
Point to
Deception Pass, Point Jefferson to Port Susan,
Holmes
Harbor, Carr Inlet and Case Inlet.
333.917 Shorelines
Shorelines management : the Washington Experience. Seattle :
University of Washington Press, 1972. The need for
shorelines management. Legal background for coastal
zone
management. A summary of the Washington Act -
legislative
history to
1972. Magnuson Coastal Zone Management Act.
What's right and wrong with the Washington Act.
Allocating
coastal resources. The Shorelines Management Act of
1971.
Department of Ecology guidelines. Proceedings of a
symposium sponsored by various state and legal
groups at the
Seattle Center, June 24, 1972.
333.917 Washington
Washington (State). Office of Financial Management.
Environmental chartbook : a collection of indicators on
Washington's environment. Olympia, :
1999. Population
Growth -- Land Use -- Recreation -- Water:
Estuaries, lakes,
rivers & streams -- Air -- Waste -- Fisheries:
Recreational
salmon harvest levels, Commercial salmon harvest
levels,
Steelhead, Sturgeon -- Endangered Species: Salmon
and
steelhead stock status, Threatened species,
endangered
species, species of concern. -- Transportation and
Energy --
Additional indicators. Provides many charts and graphs to
help illustrate the indicators of environmental
health in
Washington State.
333.95 Bell
Bell, Frederick Heward.
The Pacific halibut, the resource, and
the fishery. Anchorage : Alaska Northwest Publishing Co.,
1981.
333.95 Fobes
Fobes,
Natalie. Reaching home : Pacific
salmon, Pacific people.
Alaska Northwest Books, 1994. One of nature's most poignant
romances is enacted each year when mature pacific
salmon
migrate from the ocean back to within yards of
where they
originally hatched in an inland river.
333.95 Li
Lichatowich, Jim.
Salmon without rivers : a history of the
Pacific salmon crisis. Washington, DC :
Island Press,
c1999.
Discusses the traditional and new market-driven
salmon fishing activities in the Pacific Northwest,
and
argues that the current salmon industry will
destroy the
species and
the local ecosystem.
333.95 Manning
Manning, Harvey.
Washington wilderness : the unfinished work.
Seattle : The Mountaineers, c1984. In beautiful color
photographs, this book discusses the wilderness
areas in
Washington (State), such as Patos Island, Mount
Baker,
Glacier Peak, Lake Chelan, Pasayten Wilderness,
Chopaka,
Okanogan Highlands, Cougar Lakes, Goat Rocks, and
many
others.
333.95 Taylor
Taylor, C. Barr.
Shadow of the salmon : a fly fisherman's quest
for the vanishing wild salmon. HarperCollins,
1994.
335.979 LeWarne
LeWarne, Charles Pierce. Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915.
Seattle : University of Washington Press,
1975. Introduces
Washington State's five utopian communities which
flourished
during the nineteenth century along Puget Sound.
Includes
the Puget Sound Cooperative Colony on the Olympic
Peninsula,
the Equality Colony, Freeland, Burley Colony on
Henderson
Bay, and the Home colony.
338.04 Holbrook
Holbrook, Stewart Hall, 1893-1964. James J. Hill : a great life
in brief. New York : Knopf, 1955. The powerful and
ruthless man who built the Great Northern Railway
and opened
the Pacific Northwest.
338.1 Lind
Lind, Carol J. Big
timber, big men. Saanichton, B.C.;
Seattle,
WA : Hancock House, 1978. Logging and the big lumber
companies in the Pacific Northwest, including labor
problems
such as the Everett Massacre, the I.W.W. and Wobbly
demands
and general strikes.
338.1 Van Syckle
Van Syckle, Edwin.
They tried to cut it all : Grays Harbor -
turbulent
years of greed and greatness. Seattle : Pacific
Search Press, 1980. Discusses the early Gray's Harbor,
Washington sawmills, life in the logging camps,
equipment
for logging, and the wood products created during
the late
19th century and early part of the 1900's.
338.47 Roscow
Roscow, James P., 1931-. 800 miles to Valdez : the building of
the Alaska pipeline. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
:
Prentice-Hall, c1977. Examines the most expensive privately
financed construction project in history - the oil
pipeline
from Prudhoe Bay north of the Arctic circle to the
ice-free
port of Valdez - during the years 1968 to 1977.
347.73 Douglas
Douglas, William O. [William Orville], 1898-1980. Go East young
man : the autobiography of William O. Douglas. New York :
Random House, 1974. The early years of Washington state
native, William O. Douglas, who served as associate
justice
of the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1980.
353.9 Avery
Avery, Mary W. [Mary Williamson], 1907-1975. Government of
Washington State,. Rev. ed. Seattle, : University of
Washington Press, 1967. Early history of state government
to the present branches of government in Olympia.
363.739 Kolb
Kolb, James A. Puget
Soundbook. Poulsbo, WA : Marine
Science
Society of the Northwest, 1991. An action book for keeping
Puget Sound healthy through disposing of wastes,
recycling,
maintaining healthy sewer systems, etc.
364.1 Olsen
Olsen, Jack. Son
: a psychopath and his victims. 1st
ed. New
York : Atheneum, 1983. A 1984 Edgar Award Nominee, this is
the story of
a sociopathic rapist, a clean-cut realtor named
Fred Coe who raped dozens of women in sunny
Spokane,
Washington.
365.9797 Keve
Keve, Paul W. The
McNeil century : the life and times of an
island prison. Chicago, Ill. : Nelson-Hall, 1984.
Beginnings. Arrival at the Sound. The pain of
opening.
Territorial penology. The first twenty years. Links
with the
country. The Chinese. After statehood. Island
logistics. The
bureau of prisons. An island community. The
modernizing
thrust. Certain inmates. Progress and turmoil. The
pains of
closing.
Presents the history of a small federal prison,
opened in 1875 on McNeil Island, and shows how it
became a
witness of the Territory's transition to statehood.
371.1 Specht
Purdy, Anne. Tisha
: the story of a young teacher in the Alaska
wilderness. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1976. Anne
Hobbs treks across the northern tundra to become
school
teacher in the remote gold-rush settlement of
Chicken,
Alaska.
380.1 Annals
Annals of Astoria : the headquarters log of the
Pacific Fur
Company on the Columbia River, 1811-1813. New York :
Fordham University Press, 1999. Book One: September 6, 1810
to April 18, 1812 -- Book Two: April 19, 1812 to
December
31, 1812 -- January 1, 1813 to November 20,
1813. Equally
as important as the mountain man who trapped for
furs, were
the
merchants and members of the trading companies whose
responsibility it was to take the raw product and
see that
it found its way to the hats and coats of the
inhabitants of
the major cities of the world. This book is the
story of
these men, through the journal of Duncan McDougall,
a
supervising partner of the Pacific Fur company at
Astoria.
It records the daily operations at the post and in
the
Oregon
country.
385 Chandler
Chandler, Alfred Dupont, ed. The railroads, : the nation's first
big business; sources and readings. New York, :
Harcourt,
Brace & World, [1965].
385 Wood
Wood, Charles R.
The Northern Pacific, main street of the
Northwest : A Pictorial history by Charles R. Wood. Seattle
: Superior Publishing Co., 1968. Exploring the country and
building the railroad from 1864-1883. The Cascades
and the
Stampede Tunnel and steam power on the Northern
Pacific
Railroad which stretched from Minneapolis to
Portland.
385.09 Abdill
Abdill, George B.
Pacific slope railroads, from 1854 to 1900.
Superior, 1959.
West of the Rocky Mountains, railroaders
toiled over the land to hack out primitive
beginnings of
rail lines.
385.09 Adams
Adams, Kramer A.
Logging railroads of the West.
Seattle :
Superior Publishing, 1961. Examines the trains used in
logging in the Northwest - the crew cars, camp
cars, the
tracks, derailments, wrecks and explosions and
financial
disasters.
385.09 Riegel
Riegel, Robert Edgar.
The Story of the Western railroads : from
1852 through the reign of the Giants. Lincoln :
University
of Nebraska, 1926.
Beginnings. First construction. Federal
aid. State and local aid. Civil war period.
Completion of
transcontinental railroad. Prosperity. Depresssion
and
opposition. Recovery. The Gould system. The
Southern
transcontinental railroad. Northern
transcontinental
railroad. Labor supply and organization. Equipment.
Railroads and Western settlement. Regulation and
the
Interstate Commerce Act. The reign of Giants. Covers the
history of railroads west of the Mississippi river.
From
1852, railroads grew in the United States when
wealthy
investors
saw a good way to make money. Their story is told
here.
386 Drago
Drago, Harry Sinclair, 1888-. The steamboaters : from the early
side-wheelers to the big packets. New York : Dodd,
Mead,
1967.
Includes steamboats on the Missouri River, the
Northwestand California, as well as other areas of
the U.S.
Explores the importance of America's rivers for
transportation during the nineteenth century and
the
steamboats that provided it. Railroads, dams, toll
bridges
and irrigation projects ended the value of
steamboats in
America.
386.3 Timmen
Timmen, Fritz. Blow
for the landing; : a hundred years of steam
navigation on the waters of the West. Caldwell, Idaho, :
Caxton Printers, 1973. A hundred years of steam navigation
on the waters of the west are illustrated from the
Columbia
to Alaska.
387.09 Andrews
Andrews, Ralph W.
This was seafaring : A sea chest of salty
memories. Seattle : Superior Publishing Co., 1955. Sailing
ships, tugs and other boating on the North Pacific,
including some spectacular wrecks.
387.09 Newell
Newell, Gordon R.
Pacific lumber ships.
Superior, 1960. The
little schooners and big barkentines, with millions
of board
feet for building the West, cruised the western
seas from
Seattle to San Francisco.
387.1 Cr
Crompton, Samuel Willard. The ultimate book of lighthouses :
history, legend, lore, design, technology, romance. San
Diego, Calif. : Thunder Bay Press, c2000. A complete guide
on lighthouses, including information on their
history,
design, and technology.
398 Botkin
Botkin, B.A. Treasury
of Western folklore. New York :
Crown
Publishers, 1951.
The Western brand. The West begins.
Taming the West. The Changing West (miners,
cowboys,
herders, settlers, timber, oil). Western story
tellers.
Western songs and ballads. Legends and stories of the Old
West.
398.2 Burland
Burland, C. A. (Cottie Arthur), 1905-. North American Indian
mythology. New rev. ed. New York : P. Bedrick Books, 1985.
Deities, heroes, and beliefs of various tribes.
Includes
folklore of the Eskimo and Northwest Indians.
398.2 Clark
Clark, Ella Elizabeth, 1896-. Indian legends of the Pacific
Northwest. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California
Press, c1953.
Myths of the Mountains -- Legends of the
lakes -- Tales of the rivers, rocks, and waterfalls
-- Myths
of creation, the sky, and storms -- Miscellaneous
myths and
legends. A
collection of over one hundred tribal tales
drawn from
government documents, old periodicals and
histories, reports of anthropologists and
folklorists, and
personal interviews with Indians of Washington and
Oregon.