(Interface California Corporation), 1976. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, but ca. 150 pages. A survey of Emma Freeman's photographs of Native Americans, with a catalog of then-known prints. Freeman, one of a small number of professional women photographers in the early 20th century, was best-known for her idealized portraits of Hupa and.....
Humboldt County Historical Society, 1993. Trade Paperback. The story of a United States Indian Agent who negotiated the first treaties with tribes on California's far north coast, most of which were never ratified or were quickly abrogated.
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.....
Heyday, August 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. Five writers capture the majesty and grandeur of California's famed redwoods Originally published in celebration of Save the Redwoods League's 100th anniversary, and here newly adapted for a trade audience, The Once and Future Forest explores the grandeur of the redwood ecosystems that.....
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.
Pantheon, April 2019. Hardcover. A new copy. A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was.....
Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 1998. Trade Paperback. The oldest trees of the Headwaters Forest pre-date Jesus Christ. For generations they have provided refuge, inspiration, and livelihood for creatures large and small. Harvested sustainably for decades by Pacific Lumber, a family-owned business, it seemed that the legacy of old growth.....
Eureka Heritage Society, 1994. Trade Paperback. 270 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photograph reproductions. A survey of all the historic properties in Eureka (Humboldt County) California, organized by street address. Each entry includes dates of construction, original owners' names, and the architectural style of the building. More than 1,000 structures are.....
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.
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.
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.....
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).
Humboldt Cultural Center, 1986. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 112 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
(the authors), 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 190 pages. 'Adventures of the rugged pioneers who fought their way against hostile Indians, through forbidding forests, over high mountains, to the Discovery of Humboldt Bay, California 1850 from the land side' -- from the jacket cover. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy.....
1986. Trade Paperback. 62 pages. Illustrations in B/W. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated white wrappers (paperback).
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.....
Humboldt State University Press, February 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
HarperSanFrancisco, April 2001. Trade Paperback. 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. There is.....
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.....
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.....
Arcadia Publishing, November 2004. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
Arcadia Publishing, January 2008. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The cry of Eureka! in 1848 brought over 200,000 men to what would soon become the state of California. Some went north to the narrow strip of land along California s north coast and there they found red gold that is.....
Don Chase. Printed by Del Norte Triplicate, 1959. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 64 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in blue illustrated wrappers (paperback). Signature of former owner on inside of front cover.
Arcadia Publishing, April 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.
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.....