Features an account of the 19th century conquests of the highest and most imposing of Pacific Northwest mountains, Mt. Rainier. This is the history of organized mountaineering in the Northwest as well as of Mt. Rainier and those who accepted its challenge. It carries those stories when Mt. Rainier achieved the status of a national park.
Features an account of the 19th century conquests of the highest and most imposing of Pacific Northwest mountains, Mt. Rainier. This is the history of...
Food historian Jackie Williams describes our eating habits from the earliest years of settlement to the time when railroads brought the latest ingredients and implements to regional cooks. As in her earlier acclaimed volume, Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail, Williams sheds important light on a little-understood aspect of our past.
Food historian Jackie Williams describes our eating habits from the earliest years of settlement to the time when railroads brought the latest ingredi...