Humboldt County
1976 McKinleyville High School Commencement
Trade Paperback.
75th Anniversary Fernbridge, 1911-1986
1986. Trade Paperback. 62 pages. Illustrations in B/W. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated white wrappers (paperback).
Backwoods Chronicles: A History of Southern Humboldt 1850-1920
(privately published), 2006. Trade Paperback. 108 pages plus index. A history of the discovery, early settlement, and development of the logging industry in Southern Humboldt County, California. A revised edition of the original published in 1985. Revised to include acknowledgement of displaced Native communities. A new copy.
Arcata Photo Album
Trade Paperback.
Eureka and Sequoia Park (Images of America: California)
Arcadia Publishing, January 2008. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The cry of Eureka! in 1848 brought over 200,000 men to what would soon become the state of California. Some went north to the narrow strip of land along California's north coast and there they found red gold--that is, redwood timber.....
Trinidad (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))
Arcadia Publishing, January 2010. Trade Paperback. A new copy. When Spanish explorers turned their ships north in the summer of 1775, they were searching for new territory for the Spanish crown. Nearly 300 miles north of San Francisco, they found safe harbor in a small but beautiful bay they called.....
Major McKinley: William Mckinley & The Civil War
The Kent State University Press, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. "The Civil War was a crucial experience in shaping the character and political life of William McKinley. In this engrossing and well-researched study, William H. Armstrong provides the most thorough treatment of McKinley's military career and shows.....
The Adventures of Scoop
Homer Balabanis, 1978. Trade Paperback.
The first Witness
Humboldt State Reproduction Center, 1975. Trade Paperback.
Redwoods-to-the-Sea: A Comprehensive Regional Conservation Plan (map)
The Redwoods-to-the-Sea Citizens' Committee, n.d. 1967. First Edition. Poster. Single sheet, 38 x 22.25 inches, printed in color: side 1. National Redwood Park & Seashore, the northern unit of Redwoods-to-the Sea; side 2: coastline map San Francisco to Oregon border, Redwoods-to-the-Sea: A Comprehensive Regional Conservation Plan. These maps illustrate the.....
Redwoods-to-the-Sea: Regional Planning for a National Family Playground
The Redwoods-to-the Sea Citizens' Committee, 1967. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 30 pages. This plan was put forward by the timber industry and its supporters in oppostion to the plans of the Sierra Club for Redwood National Park. Robert Barnum owned large tracts of timber lands in Humboldt County. Contains.....
Karuk: The Upriver People
Naturegraph Publishers, September 1991. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Among the mountains that flank the Klamath River, the home of the legendary Sasquatch, there still lives a people that anthropologists believe to be descendants of the original inhabitants of California. The Karuk, in this northernmost wilderness, developed a culture known.....
Carson Mansion & Ingomar Theatre: Cultural Adventures in California
Valley Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. 165 pages. A history of two opulent Victorian buildings constructed for William Carson, a timber baron, in Eureka, California. Trade edition bound in maroon cloth.
Rare Botanical Legacy: The Contributions of Ruby and Arthur Van Deventer
Heyday Books, December 2009. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Rare Botanical Legacy: The Contributions of Ruby and Arthur Van Deventer
Heyday Books, December 2009. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Traveling the Trinity Highway
MountainHome Books, 2003. Trade Paperback. 246 pages. Oblong, illustrated. Provides detailed information including road and area history, natural history, sights, short hikes, and walking tours of several of the historic towns along the National Scenic Byway of Highway 299 between Redding and Arcata, California. The road lies in Humboldt, Trinity.....
Traveling the Trinity Highway
MountainHome Books, 2003. Trade Paperback. 246 pages. Oblong, illustrated. Provides detailed information including road and area history, natural history, sights, short hikes, and walking tours of several of the historic towns along the National Scenic Byway of Highway 299 between Redding and Arcata, California. The road lies in Humboldt, Trinity.....
A Pioneer Family -- Cooper's mills
[Inez Cooper Newell], 1954. First Edition Thus. Pamphlet. [5], 14 pages. First separate edition of chapter 8 of Bledsoe's Indian Wars about the Cooper family, early pioneers in Humboldt County, California. With a one-page foreword by Inez Cooper Newell and two tipped-in reproductions of photographs of members of the Cooper.....
Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
Grand Central Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. A look at Humboldt County's marijuana culture in the last gasps of prohibition. In the final few years before California voters legalized recreational cannabis in 2016, growers young and old grappled with the transition from being secretive black-market farmers to legit business owners – while.....
Tales from the Blue Ox
Astragal Press, 2004. Trade Paperback. 224 pages. For forty years, the Blue Ox Millworks has made Victorian house parts for restoration projects, almost entirely relying on period machinery and techniques. This book provides a brief history of the mill and describes its methods. It includes formulas for homemade paints, varnishes.....
Eureka (Then and Now)
Arcadia Publishing, February 2013. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Tucked away behind the "redwood curtain" on the northwestern coast of California lies the historic city of Eureka. The location of the city directly alongside Humboldt Bay combined with the abundance of redwood attracted miners, loggers, and fishermen, and the city.....
South Bay Railroad and Land Co. Stock Certificate
Edward Denny & Co., 1875. Ephemera. 13 by 5 inches. A stock certificate for the company that built the first railroad in Humboldt County, California, a line from the bay up Salmon Creek to the old growth redwood forests there. The company was founded by H. H. Buhne, one of.....
California Redwood Empire Place Names
Journal of the West, 1968. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Reprint from Jornal of the West, Volume VII, No. 3, July, 1968, pp. 363-380. First edition thus. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).