Secrets of the Sinkyone
Trade Paperback. A new copy.
Humboldt County
Lighthouses of Humboldt County (Images of America)
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.....
Night Crossings
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.....
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. Nominated for the Forest History Award, Falk's Claim chronicles a California north coast redwood lumber community from it's bustling early days in.....
Fortuna and the Eel River Valley
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.....
Northwestern Pacific Railroad: (Images of Rail)
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.....
Scotia and Rio Dell
Arcadia Publishing, 2015. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A photo history of the historic redwood logging towns in Humboldt County, California. Scotia was a company town for Pacific Lumber (Palco). Rio Dell, a small, incorporated city directly across the Eel River from Scotia, provided the vice--saloons, as.....
California's Whaling Coast
Arcadia Publishing, July 2014. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. IImages of America series. 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 of whales began.....
Ferndale (CA) (Images of America)
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.....
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Mills of Humboldt County [volume one]
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.....
Mills of Humboldt County, 1910-1945 (Images of America)
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.....
Humboldt Redwoods State Park
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.....
I'm Gonna Tell Ya a Yarn
(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.....
Seth Kinman's Manuscript and Scrapbook
(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.....
At the Banks of the Eel: An Early History of Grizzly Bluff, Waddington, Price Creek and Howe Creek [Second edition]
(n.p), 1978. Trade Paperback. 170 pages. A History of the Eel River region of Humboldt County, California. Illustrated in black-and-white. A new copy.
Dear Mad'm (Women of the West)
Naturegraph Publishers, October 1982. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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 had until.....
Humboldt Bay Shoreline, North Eureka to South Arcata: A History of Cultural Influences
Humboldt State University Press, February 2021. Trade Paperback. 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.....
Both Sides of the Bluff: History of Humboldt County Places. Volume 1
MountainHome Publishing, 2014. Hardcover. 400 pages. Extensively illustrated. Both Sides of the Bluff is a place-based history of the lower Eel and Van Duzen rivers, Table Bluff, and south Humboldt Bay (central Humboldt County, California). In addition to an opening chapter on the area's Indian tribes, 31 separate places are.....
The Art and Style of Western Indian Basketry
Big Country Books, June 1982. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Alexander von Humboldt Botanical Illustrations: 22 Pull-Out Posters
Prestel, March 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A must-have for Alexander von Humboldt fans and botanic enthusiasts, this gorgeous collection of frameable posters of his studies is filled with natural wonders and meticulous detail. More than two centuries after Alexander von Humboldt established himself as a scientific trailblazer, the.....
The 78-Story Treehouse: Moo-vie Madness! (The Treehouse Books, 6)
Square Fish, March 2019. Trade Paperback. New York Times bestselling author Andy Griffiths invites readers to come hang out with him and his friend Terry in their 78-Story Treehouse--the sixth book in the illustrated chapter book series filled with Andy and Terry's signature slapstick humor! Andy and Terry live in.....
The 91-Story Treehouse: Babysitting Blunders! (The Treehouse Books, 7)
Feiwel & Friends, July 2018. Hardcover. New York Times-bestselling team Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton invite readers to come hang out with them in their 91-Story Treehouse--the seventh book in the illustrated chapter book series filled with Andy and Terry's signature slapstick humor! Andy and Terry live in a 91-story.....
The 39-Story Treehouse: Mean Machines & Mad Professors! (The Treehouse Books, 3)
Square Fish, April 2016. Trade Paperback. Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on.....
Black Mariah
Maple City Publishing, September 2014. Trade Paperback. A novel based on the 1990 bombing of Earth First! activist Judi Bari and the Redwood Summer protests she was organizing at the time that called for students and others to come to Northern California to stop mega timber companies Maxxam and Louisana-Pacific.....
Trinidad (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))
Arcadia Publishing, January 2010. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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 they called.....