HIST OF WASHINGTON THE EVERGRE
HIST OF WASHINGTON THE EVERGRE

Author: Julian Hawthorne

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-05

Total Pages: 812

ISBN-13: 9781333478438

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Excerpt from History of Washington, the Evergreen State, From Early Dawn to Daylight, Vol. 2 of 2: With Portraits and Biographies Elum, Colton, Dixie, Elberton, Latah, Mount Vernon, Oaksdale, Pataha, Roslyn, South Bend, Stanley, \venatchee and Waverly - Last, but not least. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Farming across Borders
Farming across Borders

Author: Timothy P. Bowman

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1623495695

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Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on a historiography traditionally limited to a regional approach. Sterling Evans has curated nineteen essays to explore the contours of “big” agricultural history. Crops and commodities discussed include wheat, cattle, citrus, pecans, chiles, tomatoes, sugar beets, hops, henequen, and more. Toiling over such crops, of course, were the people of the North American West, and as such, the contributing authors investigate the role of agricultural labor, from braceros and Hutterites to women working in the sorghum fields and countless other groups in between. As Evans concludes, “society as a whole (no matter in what country) often ignores the role of agriculture in the past and the present.” Farming across Borders takes an important step toward cultivating awareness and understanding of the agricultural, economic, and environmental connections that loom over the North American West regardless of lines on a map. In the words of one essay, “we are tied together . . . in a hundred different ways.”

Mercy and Madness
Mercy and Madness

Author: Beverly Lionberger Hodgins

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1493059750

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Spokane, Washington’s first female physician, Mary Archard Latham moved to the community with her three sons—leaving her husband behind in Ohio—in 1888. She sought a better climate for her health and worked tirelessly for the health of all of Spokane’s citizens, but particularly women and children and especially the poor. She helped found the Spokane Humane Society and the Spokane Public Library, and she was beloved and respected in the community. Then, in 1903, one of her sons died and she seemingly became unhinged. She would be seen wandering the streets, wailing and inconsolable, and her behavior became extremely erratic. In 1905, she was accused, arrested, and convicted of arson, then sentenced to four years of hard labor in the state penitentiary. She escaped into the forests of Idaho, where she hid from a massive manhunt for a week before being captured and sent to prison in Walla Walla. She eventually returned to Spokane a broken yet determined woman and died in 1917. Despite the tragic and violent events that characterized her later years, today Dr. Mary A. Latham is honored in Spokane for the good she did in the first part of her life. Mercy and Madness captures the captivating, outrageous, and sometimes-sorrowful life of Dr. Mary Archard Latham in her own words.

The Spokane Indians
The Spokane Indians

Author: Robert H. Ruby

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780806137612

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This tribal history of the Spokane Indians begins with an account of their early life in the Pacific Northwest central plateau region. It then describes in harrowing detail the U.S. government’s encroachment on their lands and the subsequent enforced settlement of Spokane people on reservations. The volume concludes with a presentation of twentieth-century developments. This edition of The Spokane Indians features a new foreword and introduction, which provide up-to-date information on the Spokane people and their most recent efforts to recover and strengthen their historical and cultural heritage.

Agents of Empire
Agents of Empire

Author: James Robbins Jewell

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1496233034

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James Robbins Jewell examines the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment's role in protecting and policing the Pacific Northwest during the Civil War.

Mental Territories
Mental Territories

Author: Katherine G. Morrissey

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780801483264

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Rarely recognized outside its boundaries today, the Pacific Northwest region known at the turn of the century as the Inland Empire included portions of the states of Washington and Idaho, as well as British Columbia. Katherine G. Morrissey traces the history of this self-proclaimed region from its origins through its heyday. In doing so, she challenges the characterization of regions as fixed places defined by their geography, economy, and demographics. Regions, she argues, are best understood as mental constructs, internally defined through conflicts and debates among different groups of people seeking to control a particular area's identity and direction. She tells the story of the Inland Empire as a complex narrative of competing perceptions and interests.