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.....
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.....
Arcadia Publishing, November 2004. Trade Paperback. Arcata, a bright jewel surrounded by the redwood forested hills of northern Humboldt Bay, was once the territory of the Wiyot Indians. The tribe only barely survived massacres and relocation after a town was founded there in 1850, a supply point for gold seekers.....
Arcadia Publishing, May 2015. Trade Paperback. 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 St. George Reef.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2005. Trade Paperback. 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 its treacherous waters.....
Arcadia Publishing, July 2013. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Perched on a hilly clearing between the Pacific Ocean and a rainforest along California s coastal highway, Arcata occupies a special niche behind the Redwood Curtain. A cultural and geographic crossroads, Arcata s story is told in the faces of its.....
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.....
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, sti.
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Humboldt Baykeeper, 2019. Poster. An updated map of Humboldt Bay, 24 by 36 inches. This new map restores the name of Tuluwat Island (formerly called Indian Island) following the historic agreement by the City of Eureka to return the island to the Wiyot tribe. The aerial image is circa 2018.....
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.....
(Artcraft Printers), 1980. Trade Paperback. 167 pages. Tales of domestic life in the Trinity Alps, the rugged mountains that divide the coast from the Central Valley in far northern California.
HarperOne, 2000. Hardcover. 252 pages. Hill spent 738 days in an ancient redwood to stop the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting it down. Her tree-top protest garnered national attention and brought awareness to the raging timber wars that pitted Wall Street against the environment, and loggers against activists. Hill saw.....
(Times Printing), 1961. Pamphlet. 13 pages. A short history of Harvey Harper's childhood and early years in Eureka, where he established on of the first car dealerships in the region (which is still in operation today).
Trade Paperback.
Schooner Features, January 1965. Unknown.
(Arcata Volunteer Fire Deptartment), 1984. Trade Paperback. 194 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
Ingomar Club, 2007. Trade Paperback. 22 pages. This is the only publication with color images from inside Eureka's most magnificent Victorian mansion. Built by Humboldt County's first lumber baron, it is now home to a private club. No public tours are available, so this is your best chance for a......
University of Washington Press, October 2016. Hardcover. Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants of environmental battles over the limits of industrialization, profiteering, and globalization. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, logging operations have eaten away.....
HarperOne, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 252 pages. Hill spent 738 days in an ancient redwood to stop the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting it down. Her tree-top protest garnered national attention and brought awareness to the raging timber wars that pitted Wall Street against the environment, and loggers against activists.....
(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.....
1990. Trade Paperback.
(the author), 1996. Trade Paperback. Anecdotes of Bridgeville, a small town in Humboldt County, history.
Donning, October 1994. Hardcover.
Lane Books, 1971. Hardcover. 160 pages. Illustrations in B/W. Includes new illustrations for the San Fernando earthquake of February, 1971.