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New Titles ..............................................................1Recent Releases ......................................................4Current Best-Sellers ...............................................6Perpetual Best-Sellers .............................................8
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 Art/Photography ..................................................10Biography/Autobiography ...................................11Cooking/Food History ........................................12Education/Reference ...........................................13Essays/Memoirs ...................................................13Gold Rush ............................................................15Lewis and Clark Expedition ................................15Literature ..............................................................16Maritime History .................................................17Military History ...................................................17Multicultural Themes ..........................................18Native Americans .................................................19Nature/Environment ...........................................20Northwest History ...............................................20Politics ..................................................................23Prehistory .............................................................23Railroads & Bridges .............................................25 Washington State University ...............................26 Women’s Studies .................................................27TITLE INDEX .....................................................28
Cover image: Cedar Falls in the Cedar River Watershed,courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives.
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WSU Press publishes seasonal catalogstwice yearly.ISBN prefx: 978-0-87422Scholarly publishers at Washington StateUniversity since 1928.Washington State University Pressis afliated with the Association o American University Presses.The WSU Press invites submission o manuscripts ocusing on the history,prehistory, culture, and politics o theWest, particularly the Pacifc Northwest.Washington State University PressPO Box 645910Pullman, Washington 99164-5910Phone: 509-335-3518800-354-7360Fax: 509-335-8568E-mail: wsupress@wsu.eduWeb site: wsupress.wsu.edu
Fine Quality Books from the Pacific Northwest
November 2008. 125965
 
NEW TITLES
Slick as a Mitten
Ezra Meeker’s Klondike Enterprise
Dennis M. Larsen
Ezra Meeker braved the Oregon Trail in 1852, andeventually became a hop armer and broker in the PugetSound country. He platted the town o Puyallup, Wash-ington and served as its rst mayor. By the 1880s he hadbuilt a ortune and a mansion. Then suddenly, a devastat-ing scourge o aphids ollowed by a severe national depres-sion, swept his assets away, “slick as a mitten.” He rescuedhis riends and neighbors when the local bank ailed,however, by tapping his own capital to return unds to account holders.The Alaskan gold rush held renewed prospects or the nanciallyruined. Despite his advanced age, Meeker ventured to the treacher-ous Klondike our times, transporting and selling more than 60 tons o groceries to Yukon gold miners. The arduous hauling o eggs, potatoes,dried goods, and even live chickens, required steamers, dog teams, packanimals, human backs, fatboats, and scows. His wie, Eliza Jane, whoremained closer to home, managed the ood-drying and canning opera-tion, manuacturing granulated eggs and dehydrated soup vegetables.Ezra delighted in his inant grandson, Wilred, who accompanied himto Dawson in 1900. Four years o letters, most rom Ezra to his belovedEliza Jane, relate the details o his risky schemes and experiences, rombusiness pursuits, to keeping warm, to the daily antics o his grandchild.
Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • index8½" x 11" • 136 pagesPaperback • ISBN 978-0-87422-302-6 • $24.95Available in March
Boat building at Lake Bennett.Eliza and Ezra Meeker, soon after his 1901return from Alaska.
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