F850.5 books

Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror

Linthicum, Richard; Fallows, Samuel; White, Trumbull

The volume is a sprawling, illustrated chronicle of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, assembled by…

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

Hudson Stuck

Hudson Stuck’s Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled is a first‑person travel narrative that chronicles a winter…

Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties

William Denison Lyman

Lyman’s History of Old Walla Walla County, Volume 2 is a regional reference work that chronicles the…

A Woman who went to Alaska

May Kellogg Sullivan

The work is a first‑person memoir that chronicles a woman’s eighteen‑month sojourn among the roughest mining…

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

Dame Shirley

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851‑52 present a series of twenty‑three epistolary fragments…

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California

Caroline C. Leighton

Caroline C. Leighton’s Life at Puget Sound is a sprawling travelogue that blends personal narrative with…

Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California

Mary E. Anderson

Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travel memoir compiled from the…

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska

Charles Warren Stoddard

The work is a travelogue that blends youthful celebration with a sweeping survey of the American West.

Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark

Harris Newmark

The work is a memoir of Harris Newmark, a longtime resident and businessman who witnessed the growth of Los…

The Argonauts of California: being the reminiscenses of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in the early mining days

Charles Warren Haskins

Charles Warren Haskins’s The Argonauts of California is a first‑person recollection of the early mining era,…

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840: and, Reminiscences of village life and of Panama and California from 1840 to 1850

Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting); Halsey, Gaius Leonard

The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce

William Denison Lyman

Our Arctic province: Alaska and the Seal Islands

Henry Wood Elliott

Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 1 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties

William Denison Lyman

"The System," As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution

Franklin Hichborn

The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire

Charles Morris

The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914

Various

The Land of Little Rain

Mary Austin

History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra

C. F. McGlashan

The quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. 4, March, 1903-December, 1903

Oregon Historical Society

The end of the trail: The far west from New Mexico to British Columbia

E. Alexander Powell

Alaska, the Great Country

Ella Higginson

Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains

Washington Irving