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Northwest Coast of North America

Here are entered works limited to the coastal region extending from Northern California to Southern Alaska.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Coasts -- North America
• Pacific Coast (North America)

• Northwest Coast of North America -- Description and travel
• Northwest Coast of North America -- Fiction
• Northwest Coast of North America -- Guidebooks
• Northwest Coast of North America -- Languages
• Northwest Coast of North America -- Social life and customs
• Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel -- Northwest Coast of North America
• Creole dialects -- Northwest Coast of North America
• Indian art -- Northwest Coast of North America
• Indian sculpture -- Northwest Coast of North America
• Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
• Salmon canning industry -- Northwest Coast of North America
• Vegetable gardening -- Water conservation -- Northwest Coast of North America

• West Coast (U.S. and B.C.)

• The Pacific Northwest Coast: Living With the Shores of Oregon and Washington (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Paul D. Komar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Far West Coast (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1924), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Picturesque Alaska: A Journal of a Tour Among the Mountains, Seas and Islands of the Northwest, From San Francisco to Sitka (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889), by Abby Johnson Woodman (illustrated HTML with added map at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1915), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Voyage Round the World, But More Particularly to the Northwest Coast of America, Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon (London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789), by Nathaniel Portlock (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
• Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming of Geographic Features of Northwestern America, by Edmond S. Meany (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)

• A Pacific Coast Vacation (New York et al.: Abbey Press, c1901), by Mrs. James Edwin Morris, illust. by James Edwin Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806 (San Francisco: The Private press of Thomas C. Russell, 1926), by Nikolaĭ Petrovich Rezanov, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)

• Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Kingdom of the Sun: A Romance of the Far West Coast (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1927), by A. M. Stephen (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)

• Appleton's Guide-Book to Alaska and the Northwest Coast (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (page images at LOC)

• Chinook As Spoken By the Indians of Washington Territory, British Columbia and Alaska; for the Use of Traders, Tourists and Others Who Have Business Intercourse With the Indians: Chinook-English, English-Chinook (Victoria, BC: M. W. Waitt, ca. 1889), by C. M. Tate (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chinook Dictionary, Catechism, Prayers and Hymns (1871), by Modeste Demers and Francis Norbert Blanchet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An International Idiom: A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language, or "Chinook Jargon" (London: Whittaker, 1890), by Horatio Hale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon: the Complete Language Used By the Indians of Oregon, Washington Territory and British Possessions (San Francisco : Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon (Victoria, BC: T.N. Hibben, late 1800s) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pocket Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: the Indian Trading Language of Alaska, the Northwest Territory and the Northern Pacific Coast (San Francisco: Downing & Clark, 1898) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dictionary of Indian Tongues: Containing Most of the Words and Terms Used in the Tshimpsean, Hydah, & Chinook: With Their Meaning or Equivalent in the English Language (Victoria, BC: Hibben and Carswell, 1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chinook Jargon: The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest (2004), by Jim Holton (PDF files at rjholton.com)
• Chinook and Shorthand Rudiments: With Which the Chinook Jargon and the Wawa Shorthand Can be Mastered Without a Teacher in a Few Hours (1898), by J. M. R. Le Jeune (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It (Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, 1909), by George C. Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests, and Isthmiana, by Theodore Winthrop (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• Chinook Jargon: The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest (2004), by Jim Holton (PDF files at rjholton.com)

• The Far West Coast (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1924), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Decorative Art of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast, by Franz Boas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Siwash, Their Life, Legends and Tales: Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Calvert, 1895), by J. A. Costello
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Legacy Washington

• Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of Salmon (Seattle: Gateway Printing Co., ca. 1920), by Carlisle Packing Company (page images at washingtonruralheritage.org)

• Gardening Without Irrigation: Or Without Much, Anyway, by Steve Solomon
  • PDF and frame-dpendent HTML at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Colombian Navigator: or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and the West-Indies (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1823-1824), by John Purdy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sailing Directions for the Coasts, Harbours, and Islands of North America, from Cape Canso to Philadelphia: Comprehending the Coasts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Within the Bay of Fundy, Also the Coast of the United States from Passamaquody Bay to Philadelphia (London: C. Wilson, 1856), by J. W. Norie and J. S. Hobbs
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Gordon of the Lost Lagoon: A Romance of the Pacific Coast (New York: Minton, Balch and Co., 1924), by Robert Watson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1915), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America (2 volumes in 4 parts; Stanford University: Stanford University Press, 1924-1927), by Ida Shepard Oldroyd (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

• Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, From Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5, by Nathaniel H. Bishop
  • illustrated HTML at Robroy
  • Gutenberg text

• Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond: Containing Some Account of the North-Eastern Coast of America and of the Tribes Inhabiting That Remote Region (London: Printed for J. Mawman, 1817), by Edward Chappell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Voyage to Hudson's Bay, During the Summer of 1812: Containing a Particular Account of the Icebergs and Other Phenomena Which Present Themselves in Those Regions : Also, a Description of the Esquimeaux and North American Indians, Their Manners, Customs, Dress, Language, &c. &c. &c. (London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. 1819), by Thomas M'Keevor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Arctic Regions and Hudson's Bay Route: Report of a Lecture (1882), by John Rae (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Voyage to Hudson's-Bay by the Dobbs Galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, For Discovering a North West Passage; With an Accurate Survey of the Coast, and a Short Natural History of the Country (London: Printed for H. Whitridge, 1748), by Henry Ellis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America (London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1744), by Arthur Dobbs, contrib. by Christopher Middleton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Gold Hunters: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)

• Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay: or, The Disappearing Fleet, by G. Harvey Ralphson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Far West Coast (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1924), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound, With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living and Religious Opinions of the Natives (1816), by John R. Jewitt and Richard Alsop (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound, With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living and Religious Opinions of the Natives (Middletown: Loomis and Richards, 1815), by John R. Jewitt and Richard Alsop (page images at Mystic Seaport)
• Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming of Geographic Features of Northwestern America, by Edmond S. Meany (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.