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Sides, Hampton

33 holds on 16 copies

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024

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Mailhot, Terese Marie

Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAI

Raban, Jonathan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.982 RAB

Cook, Langdon

Summary: Foraging is not just a throwback to our hunter-gatherer past; it's a way to reconnect with the landscape. And Langdon Cook is not just your typical grocery cart-toting dad. For him, gourmet delicacies abound, free for the taking if we just open our eyes. As a result, he finds himself free-diving in icy Puget Sound in hopes of spearing a snaggletooth lingcod, armed with nothing more than a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Skipstone 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 COO

Harden, Blaine

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.5 HAR

Ridley, Scott.

Summary: Four years after the Revolutionary War, America's independence was still in doubt. The new nation needed money and a vital surge in trade. In 1787, a group of Boston merchants decided to send two ships on a desperate mission around Cape Horn and into the Pacific Ocean, to establish new trade with China, settle an outpost on territory claimed by the Spanish, and find the legendary Northwest...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENDRICK, JOHN Ridley

Walton, Kathryn

Summary: "One of the United States' most fascinating regions, the Pacific Northwest has a lot to offer! Take a trip through the Rocky Mountains, or along the Pacific coast, all while learning about how this region became part of the United States. Young readers will love jumping into the beautiful, full color photographs of the Pacific Northwest and discovering how this region is different from the rest...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.9 WAL

McLeese, Don.

Summary: A brief biography of the famous Nez Percé leader who led his people against the United States Army and lost, but won the respect of his own people as well as white generals by standing up for his beliefs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Pub. 2004

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 CHI

Stark, Peter

Summary: Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.5 STA

Osgood, Cornelius

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 OSGOOD, CORNELIUS OSG

Kantner, Seth

Summary: "Firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou that reveals the fragile, intertwined lives of people and animals surviving through sweeping changes in the Alaskan Arctic"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KANTNER, SETH KAN

McGoogan, Kenneth

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 MCG

Gardner, Mark L.

Summary: Draws on primary sources to recreate Sheriff Pat Garrett's manhunt for Billy the Kid, the Wild West's most notorious outlaw, and offers a dual biography of the two legendary larger-than-life figures.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1552 GAR

Wukovits, John F.

Summary: "The forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible 23-day crusade to keep his crew alive"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WUK

Lankford, Andrea

Summary: "As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 LAN
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Lankford

Eckert, Allan W.

Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 ECK

Pasternak, Judy

Summary: "Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today. From the 1940s into the early twenty-first century, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe for the sake of atomic bombs. Secretly, during the days of the Manhattan Project and then in a frenzy during the Cold War, the government bought up all the uranium that could...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.1004 PAS

Boessenecker, John

Summary: "Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But the story of his two-year war with a band of outlaws known as the Cowboys has never been told in full. The Cowboys were the largest outlaw gang in the history of the American West. After battles with the law in Texas and New Mexico, they...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BOE

Geary, Rick

Summary: "An authentic narrative of the final days in Billy the Kid's brief and turbulent life." --Back cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1552 GEA

Hobbs, James

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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books] 1983

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 HOB

Preston, Douglas J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9 PRE

Rusho, W. L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Peregrine Smith Books 1983

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Brown, Chester

Summary: Martyr or Madman? The Passionate Rebel History Can't Close The Book On. Is this the future of comics? Respectably penning the dowdy pages of history? Don't be fooled. This is one of the hippest comics going and will be a controversial must-have in 2003. Legendary cartoonist Chester Brown reveals in the dusty closet of Canadian history there are some skeletons that won't stop rattling. To some...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.05 BRO

Olson, Tod

Summary: "World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel. At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 OLS

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