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.....
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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.....
Illiana Ltd, 1996. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
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.....
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.....
PublicAffairs, June 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. PRE-ORDER NOW FOR A SIGNED COPY. This book will be released on June 6, 2023. 457 pages, with a 16-page section of photo reproductions in both color and black-and-white. By the Humboldt County author and activist. First edition (first printing). A new copy. Signed.....
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.....
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.....
Beacon Press, 1999. Trade Paperback. 228 pages. A new copy. "A grave and delightful book, both personal and cosmic." -Gary Snyder, author of The Practice of the Wild Part lyrical natural history, part social and philosophical manifesto, Totem Salmon tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked.....
Pride of the River, 1994. Trade Paperback. 53 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. In 1917, the USS Milwaukee arrived off Humboldt Bay to pull a stranded submarine off of a sandbar. In the process, the Milwaukee itself ran aground. The crew was rescued, but the ship broke apart in a storm.....
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. 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).
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.....
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.....
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.....
Creative Type Productions, 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
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, 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.....
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.....