Finding the Wild West: The Pacific West: California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Pacific West states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska—one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series—highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
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Finding the Wild West: The Pacific West: California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Pacific West states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska—one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series—highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
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Finding the Wild West: The Pacific West: California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska

Finding the Wild West: The Pacific West: California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska

by Mike Cox
Finding the Wild West: The Pacific West: California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska

Finding the Wild West: The Pacific West: California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska

by Mike Cox

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From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Pacific West states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska—one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series—highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493064175
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date: 11/15/2022
Pages: 230
Product dimensions: 6.05(w) x 8.79(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Mike Cox is the author of more than thirty-five nonfiction books and hundreds of newspaper articles, columns, magazine stories, and essays for a wide variety of regional and national publications. When not writing, he spends as much time as he can traveling, fishing, hunting, and looking for new stories to tell. He lives in the Hill Country village of Wimberley, Texas.

Table of Contents

Preface: Finding the Wild West xiii

Introduction: The Pacific West xvii

California

Amador City (Amador County) 2

Angels Camp (Calaveras County) 4

Auburn (Placer County) 4

Bodie (Mono County) 6

Borrego Springs (San Diego County) 7

Calico (San Bernardino County) 8

Campo (San Diego County) 8

Coalinga (Fresno County) 10

Colma (San Mateo County) 12

Coloma (El Dorado County) 14

Colton (San Bernardino County) 15

Columbia (Tuolumne County) 16

Coronado (San Diego County) 17

Danville (Contra Costa County) 18

Earp (San Bernardino County) 21

Escondido (San Diego County) 21

Eureka (Humboldt County) 22

Glendale (Los Angeles County) 23

Grass Valley (Nevada County) 26

Jackson (Amador County) 28

Jamestown (Tuolumne County) 29

Jenner (Sonoma County) 29

Julian (San Diego County) 31

Lake Tahoe (Placer and El Dorado Counties) 32

Lone Pine (Inyo County) 33

Los Angeles (Los Angeles County) 34

Mariposa (Mariposa County) 37

Marysville (Yuba County) 38

Monterey (Monterey County) 40

Murphys (Calaveras County) 40

Nevada City (Nevada County) 41

Newhall (Los Angeles County) 43

Oakdale (Stanislaus County) 45

Oakland (Alameda County) 46

Oroville (Butte County) 48

Placerville (El Dorado County) 49

Red Bluff (Tehama County) 51

Sacramento (Sacramento County) 52

San Andreas (Calaveras County) 55

San Diego (San Diego County) 55

San Francisco (San Francisco County) 58

San Jose (Santa Clara County) 66

San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo County) 68

San Simeon (San Luis Obispo County) 69

Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara County) 70

Santa Clara (Santa Clara County) 72

Sonoma (Sonoma County) 73

Sonora (Tuolumne County) 74

Thousand Oaks (Ventura County) 76

Truckee (Nevada County) 77

Tulelake (Siskiyou County) 79

Weaverville (Trinity County) 80

Whittier (Los Angeles County) 81

Willits (Mendocino County) 82

Oregon

Albany (Linn County) 87

Astoria (Clatsop County) 89

Baker City (Baker County) 92

Bend (Deschutes County) 93

Burns (Harney County) 94

Enterprise (Wallowa County) 95

Eugene (Lane County) 97

Hammond (Clatsop County) 97

Jacksonville (Jackson County) 98

John Day (Grant County) 98

Klamath Falls (Klamath County) 99

Oregon City (Clackamas County) 101

Pendleton (Umatilla County) 102

Portland (Multnomah County) 103

Prineville (Crook County) 107

Saint Louis (Marion County) 109

Salem (Marion County) 110

Seaside (Clatsop County) 112

The Dalles (Wasco County) 113

Idaho

American Falls (Power County) 118

Boise (Ada County) 119

Challis (Custer County) 121

Coeur d'Alene (Kootenai County) 122

Glenns Ferry (Elmore County) 124

Idaho City (Boise County) 124

Idaho Falls (Bonneville County) 125

Kellogg (Shoshone County) 126

Ketchum (Blaine County) 127

Lewiston (Nez Perce County) 127

Montpelier (Bear Lake County) 128

Murray (Shoshone County) 130

Pierce (Clearwater County) 131

Pocatello (Bannock County) 132

Salmon (Lemhi County) 134

Silver City (Owyhee County) 136

Soda Springs (Caribou County) 137

Wallace (Shoshone County) 139

Washington

Bellingham (Whatcom County) 142

Centralia (Lewis County) 142

Colfax (Whitman County) 143

Coupeville (Island County) 145

Davenport (Lincoln County) 145

Dayton (Columbia County) 146

Ilwaco (Pacific County) 147

Newport (Pend Oreille County) 147

Olympia (Thurston County) 148

Omak (Okanogan County) 149

Port Townsend (Jefferson County) 149

Puyallup (Pierce County) 151

Rosalia (Whitman County) 152

Seattle (King County) 153

Spokane (Spokane County) 156

Tacoma (Pierce County) 159

Toppenish (Yakima County) 160

Vancouver (Clark County) 161

Walla Walla (Walla Walla County) 162

Yakima (Yakima County) 164

Alaska

Anchorage (Anchorage Borough) 168

Circle (Fairbanks Recording District) 170

Dawson City (Yukon Territory, Canada) 171

Dyea (Borough of Skagway) 173

Eagle (Southeast Fairbanks Census Area) 174

Fairbanks (Fairbanks North Star Borough) 175

Haines (Borough of Haines) 176

Juneau (Borough of Juneau) 177

Nome (Unorganized Borough of Alaska) 180

St. Michael (Nome Census Area) 182

Sitka (Borough of Sitka) 183

Skagway (Borough of Skagway) 184

Valdez (Chugach Census Area) 189

Wrangell (Borough of Wrangell) 190

Index 193

About the Author 210

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