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.
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Pacific Coast Highway in California (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, April 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. More commonly known as Pacific Coast Highway, State Route 1 ribbons along or near the Pacific Ocean from Northern California at Leggett in Mendocino down to Southern California at San Juan Capistrano in Orange County. Its construction began in 1913 and.....
Northwestern Pacific Railroad: (Images of Rail)
Arcadia Publishing, November 2013. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. A new copy. 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.....
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.....
Northern California's Lost Coast
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.....
Falk: Company Lumber Town of the American West (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, December 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
Crescent City and Del Norte County (CA) (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, 2005. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The rugged coastline and wild rivers of Del Norte County were once home to the Yurok and Tolowa Indians, who built their dwellings with planks cut from virgin redwood. The Klamath River was an early supply route to the gold mines, but.....
Northwestern Pacific Railroad (Images of Rail)
Arcadia Publishing, 2006. Trade Paperback. 143 pages. 9-3/4 by 9 inches. Oblong. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Updated. A new copy. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad--the Redwood Empire Route--once stretched its shining track from Humboldt Bay to San Francisco Bay. Created by the amalgamation of 42 different companies, the North Coast railroad.....
Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2018. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Over forty years and across a variety of media, artist Rick Bartow has created a powerful body of work. His representations of humans, animals, hybrid creatures, and shadowy figures display such exquisite beauty or grotesque.....
The Situation Worsens: A Box of Unfortunate Events, Books 4-6 (The Miserable Mill; The Austere Academy; The Ersatz Elevator)
HarperCollins, November 2002. Hardcover. Boxed Set of Hardcover edition. NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES A Warning from the Publisher: Imagine you are wearing a bandage that needs to be removed. Are you the sort of person who tears the bandage right off, causing an enormous amount of pain in a......
Soldiers Unknown
Great Oak Press, August 2019. Trade Paperback. A graphic novel. Based on the true experiences of Yurok Native American men called up to fight in WWI for a country that had horrifically mistreated their people, culture and land. With beautiful illustrations of life along the Klamath River in the Early.....
Conifers of the Pacific Slope: A Field Guide to the Conifers of California, Oregon, and Washington
Backcountry Press, 2013. Trade Paperback. 144 pages. A guide to all the conifer species on the West Coast, including color plates for identifying 65 species, current range maps for each species, and color photographs of conifers in their native habitat from Baja California to British Columbia. A new copy.
The Origin of Mattole: Through the Eyes of a Salmon
G. Miner, January 1996. Trade Paperback.
Making a Living, Making a Life in Humboldt County: A Collection of Reminiscenses by Glen Nash, the North Coast's Best-Known Blue-Collar Historian
Glen Nash, 1996. Trade Paperback. 8.5 by 11 inchs. 198 pages. Illustrated from photographs. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
An Everyday History of Somewhere: Being the True Story of Indians, Deer, Homesteaders, Potatoes, Loggers, Trees, Fishersmen, Salmon & Other Living Things in Backwoods of Northern Calif
Bored Feet Pubns, June 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
Indian Baskets of Northern California and Oregon
University of Washington Press, August 2015. Hardcover. A new copy. Indian Baskets of Northern California and Oregon is a richly illustrated, detailed study of the Native American basketry of this fascinating region. The book is the result of decades of research by Ralph Shanks who is a careful scholar and.....
St. George Reef Lighthouse (Images of America)
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.....
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.....
Trinidad (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))
Arcadia Publishing, January 2010. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
Ferndale (CA) (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, June 2004. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
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.....
Timber Industry Ghosts
America Through Time, July 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Timber has always been one of the principle industries in the United States. The tasks and technologies associated with logging trees, hauling them to sawmills and other forest product plants, processing them into useable products, and then moving those to.....
Dear Mad'm (Women of the West)
Naturegraph Publishers, October 1982. Trade Paperback. 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 then lived a......
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.....
The Photographers of the Humboldt Bay Region: A. W. Ericson. Volume 7
Peter Palmquist. Printed by Eureka Printing Company, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 160 pages. B/W photographic illustrations. Ericson was the most famous Humboldt County, California, commercial photographer of the 19th century. Limited to 500 copies. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).