Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

"12-year-old Lucy Darrington goes on a quest to find her missing father in a remote, magical territory in the Pacific Northwest"--

"Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, Union Army general Oliver Otis Howard was entrusted with helping former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He believed that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for the nation. But as politics curdled in the 1870s, General Howard left Washington, D.C., rejoined the army, and was sent to the Northwest. His mission: forcing...

Although the Pacific Northwest was the area furthest removed from the actual battles of the Civil War, it was nonetheless profoundly affected by the war. The Enemy Never Came examines the everyday lives of the volunteer soldiers who battled Native American renegades of the region and of the settlers who were deeply affected by the war yet unable to do much about it. Pacific Northwest pioneers soon chose sides, most allying with the North, others supporting...

The true story of a famed activist, a nineteenth-century female entrepreneur, and their travels together to fight for women's rights.
It was the spring of 1871. Pioneer entrepreneur Abigail Scott Duniway, on a business trip to purchase stock for her millinery store back in Oregon, waited breathlessly outside the suffrage convention in San Francisco. She hoped to meet Susan B. Anthony, whose career she so admired. And so they met, sparking...