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In many ways, the United States are becoming more homogeneous than they were fifty or a hundred years ago. The rise of mass technology, communication, and entertainment has meant more people get the same information through the same media, resulting in a sameness among people and places not possible before.

The old days were much different. For one thing, until recently a large percentage of the U.S. population were immigrants, bringing with them the culture and ethnic traditions of their home countries. Italians, Chinese, Africans, Dutch, Puerto Ricans, Irish, Jews, Scandinavians—they all tended to settle together, and were thus able to preserve what they knew.

Communication was also far less unifying. Correspondence was much more local, typically, and interactions between regions were limited, usually to word-of-mouth and newspapers. In such circumstances, different parts of the country often seemed almost like different countries altogether; this was especially true in places that didn't become part of the Union until relatively late in the nation's history.

Each state has a history of its own, and each one is uniquely fascinating. Even where there seems to be considerable overlap, the differences are very real, such as the difference between the California Gold Rush and the Alaska Gold Rush. An appreciation of the diversity of our nation is almost always preceded by a knowledge of the individual states and regions within it.

Some states naturally have more written about them than others, like Texas, which before it was a U.S. state was an autonomous nation. Nevertheless, we're working on building a diverse collection, though we do have a slight bias for books about the Pacific Northwest. We also have a bias for books from a Christian perspective, though we carry both Christian and secular titles.

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50 States Flipper
from Christopher Lee Publications
for 5th-Adult
in United States Geography (Location: GEO-REFUS)
$7.96
Adventures of Captain Bonneville
by Washington Irving, illustrated by Robert Reynolds
Klickitat from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Alaska, the Yukon and British Columbia Ghost Towns
by Lambert Florin
from Superior Publishing Company
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Atlas of Oregon
by William G. Loy (director and cartographer), text by Clyde P. Patton
from University of Oregon
for Adult
in World & U.S. Atlases (Location: GEO-ATLAS)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Back Roads of Oregon
by Earl Thollander
from Clarkson Potter Publishers
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Back Roads of Oregon
by Earl Thollander
from Clarkson Potter Publishers
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Back Roads of Washington
by Earl Thollander
from Clarkson Potter Publishers
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Bandon by the Sea
by Dow Beckham
from Arago Books
for Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Birds of the Puget Sound Region
by Dennis Paulson
from R. W. Morse Company
for 3rd-Adult
in Field Guides & Nature Handbooks (Location: NAT-FIELD)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Bridge of the Gods
by F. H. Balch, illustrated by L. Maynard Dixon
from A.C. McClurg & Co.
for 10th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Captain Cook R. N. the Resolute Mariner
by Thomas Vaughan and A. A. St. C. M. Murray-Oliver
from Oregon Historical Society Press
Museum Exhibition Catalog for Adult
in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Chief Joseph Country
by Bill Gulick
from Caxton Press
for 8th-Adult
in Native Americans (Location: HISA-19NAT)
Christians on the Oregon Trail
from College Press
for Adult
in Church History (Location: XCH-HIS)
Collector, The
by Jack Nisbet
from Sasquatch Books
for 10th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Colonial Entrepreneur
by Olivia Coolidge, edited by Danny Smith
from Tilbury House Publishing
for 10th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Color the Pacific Northwest
by Zoe Keller
Clr Csm from Timber Press, Inc.
for 5th-Adult
in Adult Coloring Books (Location: COL-ADULT)
$12.95
Country Boy
by Homer Davenport
from M. A. Donohue & Company
for 7th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$18.00 (1 in stock)
David Douglas, A Naturalist at Work
by Jack Nisbet
from Sasquatch Books
for 10th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Early Days in Old Oregon
by Katharine B. Judson
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Early Oregon Days
by Edwin D. Culp
1St Edition from Caxton Press
for 6th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Early Portland
by Eugene E. Snyder
1st edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 10th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
East of the Cascades
by Phil F. Brogan
3rd edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Embarcadero
by Richard H. Dillon, foreword by William Hogan
from Coward McCann
for Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
Empire Builders
by Robert Ormond Case
for 5th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Explorers of the Pacific
by A. Grove Day
from Duell, Sloan and Pearce
for 7th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Exploring Oregon's Historic Courthouses
by Kathleen M. Wiederhold
from Oregon State University Press
for Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Fabulous Opal Whiteley
by Elbert Bede
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Finns and Finnicans
by Walter Mattila
from Walter Mattila
for Adult
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$38.00 (1 in stock)
Four Wagons West
by Robert Frye Watt
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Pioneer & Frontier Life (Location: HISA-19PIO)
Freighters and Pilgrims
Knowledge Keepers Home Library Series 1865
by Charles E. Young and Sarah Raymond Herndon
from Knowledge Keepers
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
General History of Oregon
by C. H. Carey
3rd edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 11th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Geology of Oregon
by Ewart M. Baldwin
2nd edition from University of Oregon
for 10th-Adult
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
Give All to Oregon
by Cecil P. Dryden
from Hastings House
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
God's Mountain Man
by Esther Vogt
from Gospel Publishing
Biography for 9th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Gold, Guns, and Ghost Towns
from Stanford University Press
for 8th-Adult
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
Gray & Columbia's River
by Joean K. Fransen
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Great and Minor Moments in Oregon History
by Dick Pintarich
1st edition from New Oregon Publishers
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Great Sioux Uprising
by C. M. Oehler
from Oxford University
for 10th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Hiking the Columbia River Gorge
by Russ Schneider
from Falcon Press Publishing
for 10th-adult
in Hiking & Outdoor Adventures (Location: NAT-HIKE)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest
by Derek Hayes
First Edition from Sasquatch Books
for 4th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
How Edison's Lamp Helped Light the West
by John Dierdorff
from Pacific Power & Light
for Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
In Search of Western Oregon
by Ralph Friedman
1st Ed from Caxton Press
for 11th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Islands of Hawai'i
from Hawaii Preparatory Academy
for 4th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Johnstown Flood
by David McCullough
from Simon and Schuster
for 10th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
Kid on the River
by Dean Nichols
1st edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Landscapes of Promise
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
by William G. Robbins, Foreword by William Cronon
from University of Washington Press
for Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Lost Mines and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest
by Ruby El Hult
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 7th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
McLoughlin and Old Oregon
by Eva Emery Dye
1936 Printing from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West
by LeRoy R. Hafen & Harvey L. Carter
from University of Nebraska
Biography for 9th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$21.95 $12.00 (1 in stock)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest
National Audubon Society Field Guide
by Peter Alden & Dennis Paulson
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 9th-Adult
in Field Guides & Nature Handbooks (Location: NAT-FIELD)
$27.95
Newcomer's Handbook for Moving To and Living In Portland
by Bryan Geon
3rd edition
for Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Old Forts of the Northwest
by Herbert M. Hart
from Bonanza Books
for 7th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Oregon Desert
by E. R. Jackman and R. A. Long
from Caxton Press
for Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Oregon Geographic Names
by Lewis A. McArthur
Sixth Edition from Oregon Historical Society Press
for Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Oregon in the Making
by C. Louis Barzee
from Statesman Publishing Company
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Oregon Trail
Penguin Classics
by Francis Parkman Jr.
from Penguin Classics
Historical Non-fiction for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$16.00
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman, Jr., illustrated by Frederic Remington
1993 printing from Little, Brown & Company
for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman, Jr., illustrated by Maynard Dixon
from Heritage Press
for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman
from International Collectors Library
for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Oregon Trail
by Leonard Everett Fisher
from Holiday House
for 5th-Adult
in Oregon Trail (Location: HISA-19OR)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Oregon Trail
Famous Books for Young Americans
by Francis Parkman
from A. L. Burt Company
for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman Jr., illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton
from Garden City Books
for 7th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman Jr., illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
from Little, Brown & Company
for 7th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman Jr., illustrated by James Daugherty
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 7th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Oregon Trail
by Rinker Buck
from Simon and Schuster
for Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$19.99
Oregon Trail Cookbook
by Leslie J. Whipple
from Maverick Books
for Adult
in American Cooking (Location: COOK-US)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
Oregon Trail Diary of James Atkin, Jr. in 1852
by James Akin
for 9th-Adult
in Oregon Trail (Location: HISA-19OR)
Oregon Trail Diary of Rev. Edward Evans Parrish in 1844
by Rev. Edward Evans Parrish
for 8th-Adult
in Oregon Trail (Location: HISA-19OR)
Oregon's Golden Years
by Miles Potter
2nd edition from Caxton Press
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Other Side of Oregon
by Ralph Friedman
from Caxton Press
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Outlaws of the Pacific Northwest
by Bill Gulick
from Caxton Press
for 7th-Adult
in Pioneer & Frontier Life (Location: HISA-19PIO)
Pacific Graveyard
by James A. Gibbs
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
Paddle-Wheel Days in California
from Stanford University Press
for 8th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
People's School, The
by William G. Robbins
from Oregon State University Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Pioneer Children on the Journey West
by Emmy E. Werner
from Westview Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
by Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon
from Lone Pine Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Field Guides & Nature Handbooks (Location: NAT-FIELD)
Pocket Naturalist Guide: Portland Birds
from Waterford Press
for 3rd-Adult
in Field Guides & Nature Handbooks (Location: NAT-FIELD)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Portland Bridge Book
by Sharon Wood
from Oregon Historical Society Press
for 8th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Portland Police Sunshine Division
by Lori Shea Kuechler
from Sunshine Division
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Portland Then and Now
by Linda Dodds & Carolyn Buan
from Thunder Bay Press
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Princess Ka'iulani
by Sharon Linnea
from Eerdmans
Biography for 7th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$15.00
Ranch under the Rimrock
by Dorothy Lawson McCall
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Rare and Endangered Plants of Oregon
by Donald C. Eastman
from Beautiful America Publishing
for 6th-Adult
in Field Guides & Nature Handbooks (Location: NAT-FIELD)
Roadhouse Tales
by Matilda Clark
2004 printing from Bullerville Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
Rose City Justice
1st edition from Oregon Historical Society Press
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Saddles East
by John W. Beard
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Oregon Trail (Location: HISA-19OR)
Scenic Geology of the Pacific Northwest
by Leonard C. Ekman
from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in CLEARANCE & FREE BOOKS (Location: ZCLE)
Seattle: Now & Then
by Paul Dorpat
from Paul Dorpat
for 5th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Ships of the Redwood Coast
by Jack McNairn and Jerry MacMullen
1960 printing from Stanford University Press
for Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast
by James A. Gibbs
2nd edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: Northern New England
by Vance Muse, with photography by Paul Rocheleau
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: Rocky Mountain States
by Jerry Dunn, with photography by Mary Jenkins and Marion Paone
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: Southern New England
by Henry Wiencek, with photography by Paul Rocheleau
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: Texas & the Arkansas River Valley
by Tabori Stewart
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Carolinas and the Appalachian States
by Tabori Stewart
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Deep South
by William B. Logan and Vance Muse, with photography by Mary Z. Jenkins
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Desert States
by Tabori Stewart
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Great Lakes States
by Suzanne Winckler, with photography by Balthazar Korab
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Mid-Atlantic States
by Michael S. Durham, with photography by Michael Melford
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Pacific States
by Tabori Stewart
from Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
for 9th-Adult
in American History Reference (Location: HISA-REF)
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