Eureka Printing Company, January 1984. Trade Paperback. 104 pages. William Carson built one of the largest fortunes in the timber business on the West Coast. His house, now a private club, is still a tourist attraction. This collection of anecdotes, but the author and her father, describe incidents in the.....
Bob Rowen, 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The following are quotes from Bob Rowen's My Humboldt Diary: We cannot trust America's powerbrokers, nor can we rely on our institutions of government that are controlled by them, to protect us from their abuses -- My Diary explains why.....
Arcadia Publishing, April 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Pioneer US Forest Service rangers and their ranger stations are classic symbols of the American West. Rangers managed the public forests and ranges with the cattlemen, sheepmen, lumbermen, miners, homesteaders, and others who used--and, in many cases, sti.
Creative Type Productions, 2022. Trade Paperback. 269 pages. Stories from the life of the 'Godfather' of the back-to-the-land movement in Southern Humboldt County, California. Bob McKee 'purchased failing ranches and logged-over forests, then settled some 900 families on parcels he developed' -- from the back cover. Historian Ray Raphael recorded.....
Trade Paperback. A new copy.
Arcadia Publishing, October 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The impenetrable coast of Humboldt County has been a historic navigational conundrum for sea captains since the 16th century. The Humboldt bar crossing, the lack of safe harbors, the storms, the unpredictable seas, and the rocky shores caused tragic shipwrecks, drownings.....
Oregon State University Press, May 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In the late 1960s, Malcolm Terence left his job as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times to look for adventure and may have found more than he bargained for. The era had triggered unprecedented social and.....
Moonstone Pub, 2011. Trade Paperback. 129 pages. Five accounts of near-disaster near the entrance to Humboldt Bay, which remains a treacherous journey over a shifting bar. Based on interviews and written narratives. A new copy. At night, a harbor entrance becomes a dark and unpredictable corridor. One of the most.....
Pioneer Graphics, 1983. Trade Paperback. 165 pages. Probably a first edition, with no statement of printing on the copyright page and a $7.95 cover price. A new copy.
Arcadia Publishing, 2011. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A short history of Fortuna and the Eel River Valley in Humboldt County, California, illustrated with 230 vintage photographs. The Fortuna Depot Museum, located in a former railroad station, serves as the history museum for the area and it.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2006. Trade Paperback. 143 pages. 9-3/4 by 9 inches. Oblong. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Updated. A new copy. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad--the Redwood Empire Route--once stretched its shining track from Humboldt Bay to San Francisco Bay. Created by the amalgamation of 42 different companies, the North Coast railroad.....
Arcadia Publishing, November 2013. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. The year 2014 marks the centennial of the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP), celebrated by driving a golden spike at Cain Rock in October 1914. This achievement was the culmination of a massive, six-year engineering effort to connect rail lines.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2015. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A photo history of the historic redwood logging towns in Humboldt County, California. Scotia was a company town for Pacific Lumber (Palco). Rio Dell, a small, incorporated city directly across the Eel River from Scotia, provided the vice--saloons, as.....
Arcadia Publishing, July 2014. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. IImages of America series. Yankee whaling, shore whaling, and modern whaling were sometimes occurring simultaneously. Each type of whaling went through periods of discovery, stability, and then a gradual decrease as the products lost their markets or the number of whales began.....
Arcadia Publishing, June 2004. Trade Paperback. The enchanting "Victorian Village" of Ferndale in the Eel River Valley is designated a "Distinctive Destination" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is a California Historical Landmark. Named by its founders, the Shaw brothers, to honor the six-foot-tall ferns that once choked.....
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Arcadia Publishing, 2016. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A survey of the lumber trade in Humboldt County from 1850 to 1910, illustrated with photographs. The authors are noted local historians. The book covers advances in logging and milling technology and the related industries, such as shipbuilding, boiler.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2018. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A survey of logging and the timber industry during the first part of the 20th century, told through the captions to 220 photographs. The authors, historians affiliated with the Fortuna Depot Museum, trace technological change, labor unrest, the expansion.....
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.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2012. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A photographically illustrated history of the 53,000 acre state park along the Eel River in central Humboldt County, California. The park grew out of an initial land purchase made by the Save-the-Redwoods League. The book also includes short histories.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2011. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A short history of Fortuna and the Eel River Valley in Humboldt County, California, illustrated with 230 vintage photographs. The Fortuna Depot Museum, located in a former railroad station, serves as the history museum for the area and it.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2014. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. Over Christmas 1964, a major flood struck Northwestern California, wiping away entire towns and devastating many others. This collection of more than 200 photographs, taken by Rudy Gillard at the time, remained unpublished until this book, issued for the.....
Sierra Club Books, 1983. Trade Paperback. 149 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
(Ferndale Museum), 2011. Trade Paperback. 125 pages. As recollected or collected by George Richmond. Seth Kinman was famous for being famous in the middle of the 19th century. He was a hunter, trapper, and Indian killer in Humboldt County, California, and he ran a saloon filled with taxidermy and other.....
(Ferndale Museum), 2010. Trade Paperback. 192 pages. Preserved by George Richmond and Richard H. Roberts. Seth Kinman was famous for being famous in the middle of the 19th century. He was a hunter, trapper, and Indian killer in Humboldt County, California, and he ran a saloon filled with taxidermy and.....
(n.p), 1978. Trade Paperback. 170 pages. A History of the Eel River region of Humboldt County, California. Illustrated in black-and-white. A new copy.