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, 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, 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 This collection of more than 200 photographs, taken by Rudy Gillard at the time, remained unpublished until this book, issued for the.....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.....
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., 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 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. 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 the 1890's though it's decline to a ghost town in the 1950s. Told through personal histories, it is.....
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, 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, June 2004. Trade Paperback. 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 that once choked.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2018. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A survey of logging and the timber industry during the first part of the 20th century, told through the captions to 220 photographs. The authors, historians affiliated with the Fortuna Depot Museum, trace technological change, labor unrest, the expansion.....
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.....
(Ferndale Museum), 2011. Trade Paperback. 125 pages. As recollected or collected by George Richmond. Seth Kinman was famous for being famous in the middle of the 19th century. He was a hunter, trapper, and Indian killer in Humboldt County, California, and he ran a saloon filled with taxidermy and other.....
(Ferndale Museum), 2010. Trade Paperback. 192 pages. Preserved by George Richmond and Richard H. Roberts. Seth Kinman was famous for being famous in the middle of the 19th century. He was a hunter, trapper, and Indian killer in Humboldt County, California, and he ran a saloon filled with taxidermy and.....