Print Your Own History
The "Print Your Own History Library" was created so people who enjoy reading about Pacific Northwest history -- especially Washington State -- could easily and inexpensively acquire historical volumes written and published during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Each volume has been carefully scanned and the resulting electronic pages were converted to Adobe Acrobat format, allowing you to easily carry thousands of pages of original source documents in your phone, your tablet or on your laptop or desktop computer. In addition, many are also included on the disk in ".mobi" format so that you can easily read them on your Kindle or other electronic reader. (For instructions on loading these Kindle-compatible documents onto your device, please search the Internet for "sideloading".)
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A Courier of Empire -- A Story of Marcus Whitman's Ride to Save Oregon by John H. Whitson
The name of Marcus Whitman is linked inseparably with the great Northwestern region once known as Oregon, comprising an area much greater than the state which now bears that name. Whitman's ride across three thousand miles of wintry wilderness to save Oregon to the Union was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of our land, though until recently comparatively unrecognized. Whitman's famous ride and much of the history of his life in connection with early Oregon are here set forth. The aim of the present volume is to show, in the form of an interesting and entertaining story, how the vast region called Oregon became a part of the United States. It is hoped it will meet with the favor shown the previous work. Published in 1904, approx. 325 pages.
Eighty Years in the Changing West. The Memoirs of E.V. Kuykendall
"Eighty Years in the Changing West" is the story of Elgin V. Kuykendall (1870-1958). Born in Oakland, his family relocated to Central Washington State when he was a young child. The Kuykendall family moved to Pomeroy in Garfield County, Washington, when he was a 12, to join his grandparents. This is a fascinating, personal story of Pomeroy and the surrounding territory for the last decades of the 19th Century and the first half of the 20th. Judge Kuykendall served in Pomeroy as a teacher, mayor, politician, lawyer, judge. He served as a justice on the state Supreme Court for 25 years. The book includes a section on a trip to Hawaii he and his wife took in 1950 after his retirement.
Add to Cart (7.50)Historic Glimpses of Asotin County by E.V. Kuykendall
With Supplement of Myths, Legends and Curious Beliefs of Indians of the Northwest ...
Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia, and Garfield Counties, Washington Territory, and Umatilla County, Oregon by Frank T. Gilbert
From the Introduction:
Few persons read the preface to a book except authors, editors and critics, and they with a purpose mainly, of judging the writer's opportunity for understanding his subject. I would, therefore, say I tha.t in this instance it consists: first, in having spent a large proportion of the time since 1873 in studying it; second, in having become familiar with the Pacific Coast by personal observation of its various historic localities, made through ten years of travel between Mexico and British Columbia; third, in having previously written local histories of various parts of the region mentioned, including counties in and the states of, California and Nevada; fourth, in having availed myself of the opportunity presented of perusing the contents of volumes treating upon this subject, contained in the numerous public and several valuable private libraries in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington Territory, and in a careful examination of numerous' newspaper files, journals of pioneers, and private collections of historic data; fifth, in having interviewed a small army of argonauts who have been met with in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington Territory, among whom were those living on the Pacific Coast since 1830; and, with all this opportunity, there remains the necessity only of 'recording a regret that these "Sketches" are not more complete and traced with an abler pen.
The design was not to produce a complete history, but present to the reader a brief glimpse of the whole-a glimpse of the Coast from its discovery; of California until Oregon ceased to be a part of it; of Oregon while Washington Territory was within her boundary limits; of the latter from its creation until WalIa Walla, Columbia, Whitman, and Garfield had been born into the sisterhood of counties. (Published in 1882, approx 875 pages)
History of the Kuykendall Family by George Benson Kuykendall
As this is the first attempt ever made to publish a history of the family Kuykendall, there was no foundation to build upon, no precedent for guidance, and very little material to begin with. It has been a new work from the outset, and all the data was yet to be gathered. Coming to the author, as a large part of the data did, through correspondence, much of which was written with a pencil, and from people making no literary pretensions, the manuscript was often dim and difficult to read, and it would be a miracle if there were not errors in dates and names. Different persons of the same families or branches often gave versions that varied considerably from each other.
History of Washington: The Rise and Progress of an American State. By Clinton Snowden.
Five volumes as originally published in 1909-1911.
From the Introduction:
The materials from which alone a history of Washington can be written have nowhere been assembled in one collection, with any degree of completeness. The State Historical Society has done something, but the material it has gathered is not yet arranged so as to be readily available. The State University also has a considerable collection which it is steadily and very methodically increasing. The State Library has something.
The shelves of the Oregon Historical Society also hold much that is as valuable to the historian of Washington as of Oregon, and is equally at his disposal. It is to be regretted that the State government has not already made such provision as most other States have made for collecting, arranging and preserving the materials for its history. The work can be done thoroughly and well at very moderate cost, once it is begun in a proper way. The greatest need will be for a competent secretary, whose heart will be in the work, who has already displayed some genius for it, and who has a wide acquaintance among the earlier settlers now living.
An Illustrated History of Southeastern Washington contains a general history of the Northwest and of the territory and state of Washington, detailed histories of Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield, and Asotin counties, together with reminiscent and personal articles. If its voice finds "hearing ears" we will be glad and hope the listener will, also. If otherwise, the fact still remains that the compilers have labored faithfully and long to produce what we asked for a comprehensiveness and accuracy in each department that would make the book really useful to all. But, remember when you read, that the province of the historian is not to make facts, but to record them. The best history is the one that gives the most and best facts relative to the subject in hand, clearly and simply, shedding on them, as near as may be done, the light that shone on them when they came into existence. That is the ideal that has been striven for in the compilation of this work. Therefore it was not sought to make it excel as a "literary gem", still we believe the "style" is sufficiently plain so that the reader will understand what is being talked about.
Published in 1906 by Western Historical Publishing. Approximately 1,000 pages
An Illustrated History of Walla Walla County by W.D. Lyman
The opening of a new century is a fitting time to cast a backward glance in our local history, reconstruct to the eye of the present the interesting and heroic events of the past, and by comparison between past and present forecast something of the future.
Old Oregon Territory, of which this county and this state were once parts, with its isolation, its pathos, its hospitality, has passed away. It had a strange history. It was the ignis fatuus of successive generations of explorers, luring them on with that indescribable fascination which seems always to have drawn men to the ever-receding circle of the "Westmost West," and yet for years and years veiling itself in the mists of uncertainty and misapprehension.
Published by W. H. Lever, 1901. Approximately 600+ pages
Lyman’s History of Old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin Counties, by W.D. Lyman
An expansion, published in 1918, of Prof. Lyman's earlier history. This 750 page volume includes close to 300 pages of biographical and photographical information on pioneers and active citizenry of the four counties.
Oregon Literature Editor: John B. Horner
This includes both the first edition, published in 1899, and the 2nd Edition, published in 1902.
The Rawhide Railroad by Estes
The Struggles for Life and Home in the North-west by a Pioneer Homebuilder, by George France
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