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.
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Georgie Press, 2015. Trade Paperback. 184 pages. The first modern account of the money and fraud behind the large timber holdings in Humboldt County, California. In the 1870s and 1880s, corrupt land agents backed by Edinburgh investors paid sailors and other itinerant travelers to file claims for timberland and then.....
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).
Stanford University Press, 1945. Hardcover. 156 pages. Tales of lumber ships. Later printing. A very good copy; no dust jacket.
Arcadia Publishing, April 2019. Trade Paperback. 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, still use-- the lands to build and.....
Arcadia Publishing, December 2018. Trade Paperback. 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 Lumber Company. During.....
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.....
Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The oldest trees of the Headwaters Forest pre-date Jesus Christ. For generations they have provided refuge, inspiration, and livelihood for creatures large and small. Harvested sustainably for decades by Pacific Lumber, a family-owned business, it seemed that.....