Falk's Claim: The Life and Death of a Redwood Lumber Town
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.
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.
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.....
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, April 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. More commonly known as Pacific Coast Highway, State Route 1 ribbons along or near the Pacific Ocean from Northern California at Leggett in Mendocino down to Southern California at San Juan Capistrano in Orange County. Its construction began in 1913 and.....
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, November 2013. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. A new copy. 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.....
Arcadia Publishing, July 2014. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. IImages of America series. A new copy. 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.....
Arcadia Publishing, June 2004. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
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.....
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, 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, December 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Between the years 1884 and 1937, the company mill and lumber town of Falk thrived in what is now the Headwaters Forest Reserve. In the late 1800s, Noah Falk and two other stakeholders became partners in the Elk River Mill and.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2005. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The rugged coastline and wild rivers of Del Norte County were once home to the Yurok and Tolowa Indians, who built their dwellings with planks cut from virgin redwood. The Klamath River was an early supply route to the gold mines, but.....
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. A new copy. The cry amongst the redwoods-Eureka!-was the shout heard from early pioneers in 1850 as they came to settle in.....
Arcadia Publishing, February 2013. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
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.....
Heyday, August 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. Five writers capture the majesty and grandeur of California's famed redwoods Originally published in celebration of Save the Redwoods League's 100th anniversary, and here newly adapted for a trade audience, The Once and Future Forest explores the grandeur of the redwood ecosystems that.....
Backcountry Press, 2013. Trade Paperback. 144 pages. A guide to all the conifer species on the West Coast, including color plates for identifying 65 species, current range maps for each species, and color photographs of conifers in their native habitat from Baja California to British Columbia. A new copy.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2018. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Over forty years and across a variety of media, artist Rick Bartow has created a powerful body of work. His representations of humans, animals, hybrid creatures, and shadowy figures display such exquisite beauty or grotesque.....
Naturegraph Publishers, October 1982. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Dear Mad'm is the autobiographical story of Stella Walthall Patterson of her experience living alone, after age 80, with her dog Vicki on her mining claim on the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountains, near Happy Camp, California. She.....
Microcosm Publishing, June 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Explore your relationships and sexuality, with yourself and with others, with this new book by Dr. Faith, author of bestselling Unfuck Your Brain. Written particularly for people who are in intimate relationships, but also incredibly useful if you're single.....
HarperCollins, November 2002. Hardcover. Boxed Set of Hardcover edition. NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES A Warning from the Publisher: Imagine you are wearing a bandage that needs to be removed. Are you the sort of person who tears the bandage right off, causing an enormous amount of pain in a......
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Hardcover. 482 pages. Combines labor, environmental and business history with the biography of the founder of the Hammond Lumber Company. A new copy. Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a......
Pantheon, April 2019. Hardcover. A new copy. A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was.....
Great Oak Press, August 2019. Trade Paperback. A graphic novel. Based on the true experiences of Yurok Native American men called up to fight in WWI for a country that had horrifically mistreated their people, culture and land. With beautiful illustrations of life along the Klamath River in the Early.....