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East of Yellowstone East of Yellowstone invites the curious into the dramatic geologic beauty of the Clarks Fork Valley just east of the world’s first national park. Guided by geologist and professor Bob Carson, explore one of the most fascinating natural theaters in the world and interpret the fascinating geologic story of the terrain east of Yellowstone National Park, including the nearby Beartooths, Absarokas and Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana. Five road logs steer readers over the Beartooth and Chief Joseph highways and adjoining roads to vistas of rugged mountains and scenic valleys. As the mileposts tick past, the remarkable history behind the enigmatic Heart Mountain detachment, Absaroka volcanics and Pleistocene glaciation unfolds. Full-color maps and an amazing collection of photographs enhance this story of the ages. • Click to read more about this book Nonfiction. 184 pages, 11" x 8.5" softcover, road logs, bibliographic references, full color with 138 illustrations including photos and maps ISBN 978-1-879628-38-0 Purchase online at the General Store |
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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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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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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 ISBN 978-1-879628-31-1
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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 ISBN 978-1-879628-04-5 |
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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 ISBN 1-879628-08-2 |
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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 ISBN 1-879628-06-6 |
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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. Fiction. 152 pages, 5.5"x8.5" softcover, black-and-white photos ISBN 1-4107-6570-9 |
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