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Where the Great River Bends A remarkable place where geography has defined history, Wallula Gap is that narrowing of the mighty Columbia River halfway between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. In this book, Bob Carson and his colleagues tell a fascinating story – of a striking land where the forces of geology worked on a spectacular scale, of a desert oasis where Native Americans, explorers, fur traders, promoters and entrepreneurs, and modern-day agriculturalists and wind farmers have all made their mark. Through the prism of Wallula, the historic gateway to the Columbia Plateau, readers learn much about the region. • Click to see more about this book • Click to read an excerpt Nonfiction. 240 pages, 11"x8.5" softcover, 264 illustrations including historic photographs and paintings, index, road log and bibliographic references ISBN 978-1-879628-32-8
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Boots 'n' Beans A one-of-a-kind collector's item, "Boots 'n' Beans" features more than 50 of Boots Reynolds' humorous Western paintings of the cowboy life. After living as a bronc rider, roper, horse trainer and rodeo clown, Boots rediscovered his youthful talent for drawing and painting in the '70s. He became a featured artist for Leanin' Tree, which has sold millions of greeting cards with his humorous illustrations. This, his first book, combines the best of his paintings with the "stories behind the art," plus vignettes of the 30-plus Westerners who have provided their original bean recipes. Packed with colorful artwork, insightful writing on cowboy lore and tasty recipes, "Boots 'n' Beans" is an art book "full of BEANS." • Click to read more about this book Nonfiction. 120 pages, 11"x8.5", hardcover with dust jacket, full color |
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Trails of the Wild Cabinets Second edition includes trail updates and new trails! "Trails of the Wild Cabinets" is a hiker’s and biker’s bible for the Cabinet Mountains – the magnificent mountain range stretching from north of Sandpoint, Idaho, 150 miles southeast into Montana. Revised by inveterate hiker Jim Mellen, the second edition has more hikes and corrections and changes to trails. This indispensable guide for hikers also also includes an appendix identifying trails suitable for mountain bikers. The book has detailed descriptions for 85 trails, numerous maps and photos, and a features chart to help readers more easily find trails with major points of interest, such as lakes, waterfalls, old-growth forests, lookouts and peaks. The second edition also includes GPS coordinates for each trailhead, as well indexes by trail name and number, gear and "Leave No Trace" ethics. Author Dennis Nicholls also provides a sketch of the range's human and natural history, and he livens up the text with essays drawn from his own hikes into the Cabinets. • Click to see more about this book Nonfiction. 176 pages, 6"x9" softcover, 86 maps and photos, appendixes |
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Climber's Guide to North Idaho Climber and writer Thaddeus Laird has rendered his years exploring the region's rock crags and alpine peaks into the region’s most comprehensive climbing guide yet. Canvassing both popular and little-known climbing areas, climbing scores of named and unnamed routes and snapping scores of photographs, Laird also collected data from Spokane veteran climber John Roskelley, and the unflappable Randall Green, author of the original “Idaho Rock.” The result is a smart, up-to-date guide to the region’s top climbs with more than 100 illustrations and maps, and detailed route descriptions for 13 different climbing sites. • Click to read more about this book Nonfiction. 220 pages, 6"x9" softcover
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On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods: During the last great Ice Age some 15,000 years ago, the Pacific Northwest was repeatedly decimated by cataclysmic floods unlike anything of modern times. Giant ancient lakes such as Glacial Lake Missoula were created as lobes of the massive ice sheets blocked river valleys. These “ice dams” broke time and again over the millennia, sending walls of ice-laden water, miles wide and hundreds of feet deep, racing over the land at speeds up to 80 mph – scouring the landscape and leaving a fascinating geologic record. Geologist Bruce Bjornstad has written the most comprehensive guide book yet to the incredible landforms scoured out by the Ice Age floods in the Mid-Columbia Basin. "On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods" explores the origins and mysteries of the great floods and describes each of 19 geologic features they left behind. It is also a hands-on field guide to features, trails and tours in the Mid-Columbia Basin where we may see today the awesome power of the ancient floods. • Click to read more about this book Nonfiction. 320 pages, 6”x9” softcover |
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Trails of the Wild Selkirks: South of the Canadian Border Author Dennis Nicholls hiked about 1,300 miles to research this book covering more than 170 hikes. The Selkirk Mountains of northeastern Washington and northern Idaho hold a fantastic variety of landscapes, from lush rain forests to dry grasslands to the cirques and granite of its high peaks. These wonderful wildlands also remain home to wildlife found almost nowhere else in the lower United States, including grizzly, woodland caribou, lynx and wolves. An indispensable guide for hikers, the book also identifies trails suitable for mountain bikers and includes detailed descriptions of trails, numerous maps and photos and a features chart to help readers more easily find trails with major points of interest such as lakes, waterfalls, old-growth forest, lookouts and peaks. Nicholls also provides an absorbing natural history for the range, along with several essays drawn from his own adventures wandering the Selkirks. Whether you’re a visitor to the area, or long-time resident, "Trails of the Wild Selkirks" will help you explore and appreciate these little-known wildlands.
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Nonfiction. 336 pages, 6"x9" softcover, maps and photos, appendixes, indexes |
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Where the Great River Bends A remarkable place where geography has defined history, Wallula Gap is that narrowing of the mighty Columbia River halfway between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. In this book, Bob Carson and his colleagues tell a fascinating story – of a striking land where the forces of geology worked on a spectacular scale, of a desert oasis where Native Americans, explorers, fur traders, promoters and entrepreneurs, and modern-day agriculturalists and wind farmers have all made their mark. Through the prism of Wallula, the historic gateway to the Columbia Plateau, readers learn much about the region. • Click to see more about this book • Click to read an excerpt Nonfiction. 240 pages, 11"x8.5" softcover, 264 illustrations including historic photographs and paintings, index, road log and bibliographic references ISBN 978-1-879628-32-8 $35 Purchase online at the General Store Or by phone at 1-800-880-3573 |
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Pioneer Voices of Priest Lake This collection of oral histories provides a fascinating window into the past of Priest Lake, Idaho. Pioneer Leonard Paul’s recollections are enhanced with the addition of the next generation of lake voices captured by the Priest Lake Museum through an oral history project that began in 1983. Together with a few additional primary sources, this book offers glimpses of Priest Lake before World War II through the words of those who actually experienced it. Nonfiction. 224 pages, 6"x9" softcover, 144 black-and-white photos, index
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North of the Narrows Until the automobile penetrated the region, the Priest Lake country of Idaho was a fabulous hunting and fishing area known throughout North America for its beauty and relative inaccessibility. It attracted sportsmen, movie stars and tourists during the summer season, but, more importantly, a rugged, self-reliant, highly independent breed of permanent resident, the pioneer settlers. These men and women ranged from early Forest Service personnel, miners, and loggers to hermits, moonshiners and fur trappers – Pacific Northwest mountaineers who, unfortunately, have almost entirely disappeared. The authors spent many years in researching the Upper Priest Lake country and taping the tales of its early people and here put on record the results of their studies. Nonfiction. 312 pages, 5.5"x8.5" softcover, 115 black-and-white photos and illustrations, index |
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Railroads and Clearcuts This carefully researched book examines the history of Congress's 1864 Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grant to railroad companies - that provided millions of acres of land to the railroads with specific limitations that have been historically ignored. The legacy it has created is one of corruption, abuse and lies. "This is the story of the biggest land grant in American history, larger than 10 Connecticuts, and how the timber companies got hold of huge forests to clearcut ... A revealing report of government giveaways and corporate action," –Ralph Nader. "A worthy contribution to the continuing debate over use of public lands."–Publishers Weekly Nonfiction. 216 pages, 6"x9" softcover, black-and-white and color photos |
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Kaniksu: Stories of the Northwest These memoirs, written with gentle humor and deft insight, capture the nostalgia of the Old West -- northern Idaho's Priest Lake and the Bitterroot Mountains of northwestern Montana -- with the inspiring landscape and the colorful personalities who shaped the character of the rural Northwest. "It may just be that Tom Lacy has combined character portraits of loggers, sourdoughs, bootleggers, foresters and 'butterflies of the night' with an unforgettable time and place to produce a priceless gem." -- Harbor Light Nonfiction. 146 pages, 5.5"x8.5" softcover, black-and-white illustrations and photos |
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"Kaniksu Two" is steeped in place – the Priest Lake country of North Idaho. This followup to Tom Lacy’s first book, "Kaniksu," is a collection of short stories that both travel back further – a century further, to the time of the Kalispel Indians – and up to the present. The collection includes a profile of the Kalispel Chief Masselow, vignettes on fishing, mushrooming and huckleberrying, historical anecdotes and more. Nonfiction. 152 pages, 5.5"x8.5" softcover, black-and-white photos |
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Fishes of the Columbia Basin The Great Columbia River Plain is a place unlike any other in the United States, with its steep river valleys, broad floodplains, rolling grassland and barren, rocky slopes known as scabland. Within this region are the streams, rivers and lakes that make up most of the interior Columbia Basin. These waterways support diverse fish populations. In Fishes of the Columbia Basin, fisheries biologist Dennis Dauble draws on more than three decades of professional experience and a lifetime as a fisherman to cover more than 60 fish species found in the region. Most important, this guide will help anglers figure out where, when and how to catch fish. This easy-to-use guide includes handy references fish species, locations of Columbia River tributaries and dams, Web sites related to fish and fishing, plus 147 illustrations and 16 pages of color plates.
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The Fly Caster Who Tried to Make Peace with the World New and now available! This philosophical new novel looks at an age-old question -- why are we here? -- through the story of one Ian MacBride, a young man dealing with grief and shock after returning from the killing fields of World War I. Eventually moving to the Beaverkill River, he retreats into the world of fly fishing. Even as he confronts new losses, Ian finds comfort in the practice of his beloved sport of fly casting, where he begins to see the ideal form as a metaphor for the ideals for a higher power. A novel of loss, faith and coming to terms, "Fly Caster" is infused with the history of fly fishing, fly casting and, above all, the beauty and spirituality of both. Fiction. 272 pages, 6"x9" softcover |
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Reading the Water Canadian author Mallory Burton's fine balance of flyfishing observation and philosophical fiction "will take you deeper into the waters of flyfishing than just fish," says Marty Sherman of Flyfishing. Joining the tide of women's interest in flyfishing, Burton's stories explore life's essential questions – work, politics, relationships and, of course, how to fish. She is "a woman who can fish with any [man] and who writes better," says Stephen Bodio of Fly Rod & Reel. Fiction. 256 pages, 5.5"x8.5" softcover |
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Pavlov's Trout: The Incompleat psychology of fishing In this widely acclaimed book – the first ever to probe the psychology of fishing – psychologist and outdoor writer Paul Quinnett, Ph.D., takes an entertaining and illuminating look at just what it is people go fishing for – and it’s not always the fish, he finds. This regional bestseller has won heaps of praise from readers and press alike. Nonfiction. 224 pages, 5.5"x8.5" |
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Darwin's Bass: The evolutionary psychology of fishing man In this sequel to "Pavlov’s Trout," psychologist and fisherman Paul Quinnett, Ph.D., returns to explore the evolutionary foundations of fishing. Did fishing help us develop our intelligence? Does the successful fisherman have a better chance of contributing to the gene pool? Were we literally "born to fish?" The answers help reveal why so many people devote so much passion to this sport. Nonfiction. 256 pages, 5.5"x8.5" |
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Hills, Hawgs & Ho Chi Minh At the heart of every run is an adventure, and 1976 Olympic marathoner Don Kardong has had his share of both. Kardong takes readers through the adventure of a wonderfully varied range of running events: from bisecting the Grand Canyon to the first marathon in Vietnam, from the Empire State Building to a 50-miler in Montana. See why Sports Illustrated says, "Don Kardong is the only spiritual descendent of Mark Twain ever to bring his unsparing eye and antic voice to running." Nonfiction. 256 pages, 6"x9" softcover |
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Go East Old Man Even after a record-setting run across the country in 1990 at age 73, Paul Reese wasn't satisfied to stay home and be comfortable. Two years later, he and wife Elaine hit the road again – heading east from their California home – embarking on a mission to run across 14 states west of the Mississippi River where he had yet to tred. Reese, in his 70s, spent five summers running across those remaining states and writing daily in his journal. His notes became the basis for this book ... but the book is not necessarily about running. Rather, it is a wide-ranging muse about travel, aging, experiences and adventure. Nonfiction. 276 pages, 6"x9" softcover |
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The Old Man and the Road In this, his third book and a worthy successor to "Go East Old Man," author and runner Paul Reese pens reflections while completing a crossing of all 50 states on foot at age 80. The third phase of his adventures took him across the remaining 21 states east of the Mississippi, plus Alaska and Hawaii. Nonfiction. 300 pages, 6"x9" softcover |
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Lessons With Love For anyone who's ever gone to school -- as student or teacher -- Marianne Love's warm and humorous stories from 33 years teaching at Sandpoint High School in rural northern Idaho will kindle both memories and laughs. She's an English teacher, but Mrs. Love has done the math; she calculates during her career she taught some 4,500 students. And in touching all those kids, it seems, the teacher was the one who got the biggest education. • Click to read an excerpt Nonfiction. 6"x9" softcover, 288 pages ISBN 978-1-879628-28-1 |
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Archer MacClehan & The Hungry Now Idaho-and-Montana author Sandy Compton puts his ample storytelling talents to play in this page-turning tale populated by a cast of colorful characters who find themselves at odds in the wilderness – and pulling together for their very survival. As one of the book’s characters, botanist turned smoke-jumper Jesse Turnbull, says, “Life is served raw in wild country,” describing a backcountry hike that begins innocently enough but turns dangerous. Led by larger-than-life backcountry guide Archer MacClehan, the others along for the trek into the Skydevil Wilderness are Sara, a small woman fighting a big temper and her own resurgent love of the wild; and her fiancé, Rob, a guy who knows how to keep his head down. Bringing up the rear as the hike begins is Tom Sevlakovs, an enormously strong man whose pack contains God knows what and weighs nearly as much as Sara. At the head of the line is Archer, and out in the brush, just out of sight – sometimes – is Number Seven, aka The Hungry Now, a grizzly bear. Remarkable for its sharply drawn descriptions of the great grizzly bear and sweeping depictions of magnificent landscapes, "Archer MacClehan & The Hungry Now" is at once a rousing story of adventure, a drama of relationships, and a paean to the wilderness and wild things of the mountain Northwest. |
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Flying Over Rainbows This memoir charts the lifetime of a remarkable Northwest personality: Buzz Fiorini, founder of an outdoor sports chain whose adventures in fishing, flying and fly fishing covered the continent and brought him friendships with such luminaries as John Wayne, Bing Crosby and others. Buzz here tells his story as told to writer Dwayne Parsons. Nonfiction. 128 pages, 6"x9" hardcover, photos |
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Out of the Night On the night of August 17, 1959, Irene Bennett Dunn was camped with her husband and four children on the banks of the Madison River near Yellowstone Park when an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude hit, causing a massive landslide to sweep over the campground. Irene survived along with her 16-year-old son, Phil, but the rest of her family perished. "Out of the Night" is about the tragedy that took four of her family members; moreover, it is about how she survived and gained the courage to rebuild her life with her son, Phil. Nonfiction. 128 pages, 5.5"x8.5" softcover |
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Cowboy Boots and Other Stories Northwest native John Sater takes readers "back to the present" in rural America in this collection of 44 short essays telling stories from a generation whose mothers went from washboards to washers and whose fathers swore by, and sometimes at, Model A Fords. He explores common experiences from cleaning chimneys and growing gardens to raising pigs and outsmarting ornery chickens, in this thoughtful and wry collection of essays. Nonfiction. 128 pages, 5.5"x8.5" softcover |
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The Hippy Survival Guide to Y2K This book, authored in 1998 as speculation about the impending Y2K computer bug crisis was reaching its peak, proposed that the “hippies” of the 1960s could offer a pathway to safety in the event of a social crisis. Author, college lecturer and unabashed hippy Mike Oehler has lived a back-to-the-land lifestyle in an underground home in northern Idaho for more than 30 years. His survival strategies and helpful advice for surviving potentially catastrophic disruptions would prove valuable in any disaster. Nonfiction. 280 pages, 6"x9" softcover |
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