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Finding Chief Kamiakin
The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot
Richard D. Scheuerman and
Michael O. Finley
Photography by John Clement
The arrival of unprecedented numbers of Oregon
Trail immigrants stirred a cataclysmic upheaval that
placed native peoples’ retention of lands and their
ancient customs in jeopardy. On May 29, 1855,
the Walla Walla Treaty Council commenced and
two weeks later, Chief Kamiakin signed the Yakima
Treaty of 1855 with great reluctance. He also resolved to resist threats
to his people’s freedoms and transgressions on their lifeways. Finding
Chief Kamiakin is his saga.
Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index
9" x 10½" • 248 pages
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-297-5 • $34.95
Greenscapes
Olmsted’s Pacific Northwest
Joan Hockaday
Landscape architect John Charles
Olmsted was mentored by Frederick
Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s
Central Park. In the early 1900s, the
meticulous, visionary protégé brought
his famous stepfather’s pastoral aesthetic
to premier parks throughout
the Pacific Northwest—green
retreats that still refresh urban souls
in Portland, Seattle, and Spokane.
Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index
9" x 10½" • 224 pages
Paperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-298-2 • $29.95
“One hundred years later, when we enter an Olmsted-designed park,
despite more traffic and development than even those visionaries could
probably imagine, we feel submerged in solitude, shelter and a dose of
peace sufficient to refresh even the 21st-century human spirit.”
—Pacific Northwest Magazine
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