Diaries and Memoirs
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The Egg and I
by Betty Bar Macdonald  Publisher Comments Reissue of this immortal, hilarious, and heartwarming classic about working a chicken farm in the Northwest....
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Wood Works: The Life and Writings of Charles Erskine Scott Wood (Northwest Readers)
by Edwin Bingham Synopsis This first anthology of Wood's writings reintroduces a major figure in the literature and history of the American West. Selections range from Wood's famous rendering of Chief Joseph's "surrender speech" to satirical dialogues from his best-known work...
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In This We Are Native: On Going Away and Coming Home
by Annick Smith Publisher Comments A vibrant memoir of love and loss and rebirth....
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Womens Diaries of the Westward Journey
by Lillian Schlissel Publisher Comments An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women....
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We Sagebrush Folks
by Annie Pik Greenwood Synopsis This intimate record of an acute mind and sensitive spirit to the joys and sorrows, poverty, and personalities describes the author's fifteen years as a farm woman on the last American frontier....
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Home Below Hell's Canyon
by Grace Jordan Synopsis During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family--Len Jordan, his wife Grace, and their three small children--moved to an Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon, deepest scratch on the face of North America....
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A Foot in the Door: The Reminiscences of Lucile McDonald
by Lucile Sau Mcdonald Publisher Comments A Foot in the Door is the compelling autobiography of one of the Pacific Northwest's most-read journalists and authors. Mc Donald's remarkable 75-year career took her around the world, and included 23 years of service at the Seattle Times....
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Women's Diaries of Westward Journey (04 Edition)
by Lillian Schlissel Publisher Comments More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the...
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Artless: The Odyssey of a Republican Cultural Creative
by Gary D Cole Publisher Comments Gary Cole tried to walk the fine line between the bourgeois and the bohemian, only to find himself on a journey of self-discovery that challenged his most cherished convictions. Replete with good humor and dry wit, Artlessis a commentary on censorship's...
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A Walk Toward Oregon: A Memoir
by Alvin M Josephy Synopsis From the celebrated historian, noted for his writings about the American West and the American Indian, comes a wonderfully engaging account of his journey across the 20th century. 25 photos....
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Road Angels: Searching for Home on America's Coast of Dreams
by Kent Nerburn 
Publisher Comments Chapter OneGood Bulbs"Hell, there ain't no one beginning. A couple of creeks, some lakes and streams, water running in from some swamps. It all just adds up. Pretty soon there's a river.-- An old Ojibwe man discussing the source of the Mississippi here...
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The Lusty Life of Loon Lake Lloyd: True Life Western Tales
by Ellen Keeland Publisher Comments Lusty means robust and youthfull vigor. One couldn't find a more perfect description of Lloyd Keeland. A World War II Marine, logger and resort owner, Keeland has the gift of an old-time storyteller. His wife, Ellen, chronicled his stories and then...
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Road Angels: Searching for Home Down America's Coast of Dreams
by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments Ride shotgun with Kent Nerburn on a remarkable journey that uncovers the myths and dreams of America's West Coast. Fearing that his passion for life was dimming and worried that his family needed to escape the harsher realities of Minnesota life, Nerburn...
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Walking the Beach to Bellingham (Northwest Reprints)
by Harvey Manning Synopsis This memoir by noted writer and environmental activist Harvey Manning recounts a 150-mile walk along Puget Sound from Seattle to Bellingham. An exhilarating tale of "low adventure, " it combines the author's experiences with memories of particular...
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Cornsilk: Growing Up Green
by Jane Glazer Publisher Comments Poet Jane Glazer has written a memoir that revives and celebrates a mostly vanished American way of life. Born into small town Iowa of a veterinarian father and an artist mother, Glazer looks back on growing up under the powerful influence of her...
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In This We Are Native: Memoirs and Journeys
by Annick Smith Publisher Comments In This We Are Native couples a passionate argument for saving wilderness with a breathtaking memoir of love and loss and rebirth. Smith unflinchingly tells of her young husband's final year. After a desperate move to seedy Hollywood Boulevard, where...
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Homestead
by Annick Smith Synopsis In 1964 Annick Smith came to Montana with her husband Dave and their boys. In a fertile valley where meadows tip downward toward the Big Blackfoot River, they found what they had dreamed of: 163 acres of ranch land with a view of creek, hills, and the...
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A Heart for Healing
by Elizabeth Bickford Publisher Comments This book illustrates the progress of the nursing profession through the life of Elizabeth Cambell Bickford....
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None to give away
by Elsie Doig Townsend Publisher Comments Jim and Elsie Doig had confidently invested in a future together on a Montana ranch. Then in 1940 Jim was fatally injured, leaving Elsie a young widow without much experience of the world. Overnight she had to learn how to fend for herself and her five...
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The Lusty Life of Loon Lake Lloyd: True Life Western Tales
by Ellen Keeland Publisher Comments Lusty means robust and youthfull vigor. One couldn't find a more perfect description of Lloyd Keeland. A World War II Marine, logger and resort owner, Keeland has the gift of an old-time storyteller. His wife, Ellen, chronicled his stories and then...
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