The States of America The Pacific Northwest

Idaho, Oregon & Washington

De: Daniel Hardy

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Histories of Idaho, Oregon & Washington In One Collected Volume

The Pacific Northwest defies easy definition. It is ancient forest and volcanic peak, rushing river and high desert plateau, Indigenous homeland and settler dreamland, frontier myth and twenty-first century metropolis. In this rich and sweeping volume, Daniel Hardy brings together the histories of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington into a single, illuminating portrait of one of America's most dramatic and consequential regions.

From the sovereign nations who shaped the Columbia River trade networks for millennia, to the exhausted pioneers who completed the Oregon Trail against all reasonable odds, to the miners, loggers, farmers, and visionaries who remade the landscape in a single century, Hardy tells the story of three states that share a geography, a temperament, and a restless, unfinished argument about what the West was supposed to become.

This is history written with authority and pace. Hardy moves between sweeping narrative and intimate detail, never losing sight of the individuals — celebrated and forgotten, powerful and dispossessed — whose choices echo forward into the present. He is equally at home in the Sawtooth Mountains and on the streets of Seattle, in a Nez Perce winter camp and a Willamette Valley farmstead, in the timber camps of western Washington and the silver mines of the Idaho panhandle.

Richly researched and compulsively readable, The States Of America: The Pacific Northwest is an essential companion for anyone seeking to understand how Idaho, Oregon, and Washington became who they are — and why it matters for the rest of America that they did.