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.....
Globe Pequot, January 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. It Happened in Northern California takes readers on a rollicking, behind the scene look at some of the characters and episodes from the state's storied past. Including famous tales, famous names as well as little known heroes, heroines, and happenings. Northern.....
Arcadia Publishing, May 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Situated at the end of a reef six miles offshore of Crescent City, California, stands St. George Reef Lighthouse. Constructed after the wreck of the coastal steamer Brother Jonathan in 1865, the beacon warned mariners of the dreaded Dragon Rocks of.....
Arcadia Publishing, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). When Spanish explorers turned their ships north in the summer of 1775, they were searching for new territory for the Spanish crown. Nearly 300 miles north of San Francisco, they found safe harbor in a small but beautiful bay.....
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, 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, 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 This collection of more than 200 photographs, taken by Rudy Gillard at the time, remained unpublished until this book, issued for the.....
Backcountry Press, October 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
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.....
Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, The, February 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.....
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.....
Humboldt State University Press, February 2018. Trade Paperback. Song of Six Rivers relates one man's life-changing experiences throughout the Humboldt Bay region of northern California, depicting the area's geography and history along the way, through both poetry and archival photography. When the muse of this epic poem, Guy Kuttner, died.....
R. L. Polk & Co., 1977. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket.
R. L. Polk & Co., 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 1057 pages, plus indexes. First edition (first printing). A good ex-library copy; no dust jacket.
R. L. Polk & Co., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket.
R. L. Polk and Co., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A good ex library copy; no dust jacket.
R. L. Polk & Co., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket.
R. L. Polk & Co., 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A good ex-library copy; no dust jacket.
R. L. Polk and Co., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A good copy; no dust jacket.
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.....
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.....
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. Nominated for the Forest History Award, Falk's Claim chronicles a California north coast redwood lumber community from it's bustling early days in.....