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.....
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. Hardcover. 366 pages. The fourth book in the History of Humboldt County People and Places series. A history of southeast Humboldt County, California, covering the years from 1850 to 1964, illustrated with over 175 full-color historical photographs and maps. Includes stories about the.....
MountainHome Publishing, 2014. Hardcover. 400 pages. Extensively illustrated. Both Sides of the Bluff is a place-based history of the lower Eel and Van Duzen rivers, Table Bluff, and south Humboldt Bay (central Humboldt County, California). In addition to an opening chapter on the area's Indian tribes, 31 separate places are.....
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. Hardcover. The third book in the History of Humboldt County People and Places series. Covering the years from 1850 to 1964, illustrated with over 200 full-color historical photographs and maps. Includes accounts of the oil “boom” in Petrolia, the building of the Redwood.....
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. Hardcover. The third book in the History of Humboldt County People and Places series. Covering the years from 1850 to 1964, illustrated with over 200 full-color historical photographs and maps. Includes accounts of the oil “boom” in Petrolia, the building of the Redwood.....
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. Hardcover. In 1850 the area east of Arcata Bay was a tapestry of wetlands and sloughs, fringed by conifer-clad hillsides. Canoe channels and trails connected a string of Wiyot villages that nearly encircled the bay. Then white settlers arrived, establishing towns at Eureka.....
Lychgate Press, 2019. Trade Paperback. 322 pages. Imagine signing a 'loyalty oath' to a company that paid you 35 cents an hour for 10-hour days, 6 days per week. As timber workers organized for better pay, city workers escorted strikebreakers and threatened to call the National Guard. A showdown occured.....
Backcountry Press, 2012. Trade Paperback. 208 pages. A guide to conifers, including the redwood and Douglas fir, paired with hikes to view every species described. The book includes the most accurate range maps ever created for conifers in northwest California and southwest Oregon, lively species descriptions, color plates to assist.....
Alaska Limestone Press, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
The Press at Trinidad Art, 2011. Trade Paperback. 85 pages. Roberts (1906-1981), the son of white settlers on the Klamath River in far northern California, grew up among the Yurok people. He felt a particular kinship with Yurok spiritual leader Robert Spott and as an adult practiced Zen influenced by.....
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.....
Eureka Heritage Society, 1994. Trade Paperback. 270 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photograph reproductions. A survey of all the historic properties in Eureka (Humboldt County) California, organized by street address. Each entry includes dates of construction, original owners' names, and the architectural style of the building. More than 1,000 structures are.....
Humboldt State University Press, 2015. Trade Paperback. 46 pages. Color throughout. 11 by 8-1/2 inches (oblong). Text in English and Japanese. A picture book for elementary-aged children about a boat lost in the great Japanese tsunami of 2011 that washed up in Crescent City, California. High school students in the.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2008. Trade Paperback. 294 pages. Imagine climbing the world's tallest trees to study the web of life thriving hundreds of feet above the ground. This is the breathtaking story of the Humboldt State University professor and students who work and play among the moss, ferns.....
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. Hardcover. 366 pages. The fourth book in the History of Humboldt County People and Places series. A history of southeast Humboldt County, California, covering the years from 1850 to 1964, illustrated with over 175 full-color historical photographs and maps. Includes stories about the.....
Beautiful America Publishing Company, July 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Sierra Club Books, 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Last Stand is a compelling American saga of greed gone wild and a small town divided over a precious natural resource. For three generations, the Murphy family ran the Pacific Lumber Company with a tradition of both sustainable.....
Creative Type Productions, 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
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.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2017. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. The Lost Coast is the undeveloped stretch of 80 miles of shoreline in Southern Humboldt and Northern Mendocino Counties, with little or no road access. Before 1930s, small fishing and timber settlements dotted the landscape, but most have been.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2001. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A useful survey of Humboldt County history, illustrated with more than 200 images from the museum's collection. The cry amongst the redwoods-Eureka!-was the shout heard from early pioneers in 1850 as they came to settle in Humboldt County. Discovery.....
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, 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.....
Arcadia Publishing, November 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Arcata, a bright jewel surrounded by the redwood forested hills of northern Humboldt Bay, was once the territory of the Wiyot Indians. The tribe only barely survived massacres and relocation after a town was founded there in 1850, a......
Island Pr, February 1981. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).