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Exploring Maritime Washington is the first authoritative travel guide to the state’s nautical heritage, telling the colorful story of the Coast Salish people’s original residency and seafaring for thousands of years, early exploration and settlement by European-Americans in the late 18th century, and expansion and growth into today’s innovative high tech, culturally diverse international maritime economy. Exploring Maritime Washington is as much an indispensable travel guide as it is a thoroughly researched history book.

In 2019, Congress designated nearly 3,000 miles of Washington’s coastline as a maritime-themed National Heritage Area, which includes hundreds of fascinating museums, ships, tribal sites, lighthouses, and other historic attractions. The new Exploring Maritime Washington guidebook is an insider’s historical travel guide to this fascinating region that also includes the Lewis & Clark Expedition’s path down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.

Foreword by former Washington Secretary of State and longtime heritage champion Ralph Munro, join author Erich R. Ebel and historian Chuck Fowler as they guide you through the cultural and nautical history of the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area and beyond.

Winter at Truckee Lake is a compelling story of tragedy and triumph. Join actual members of the Donner-Reed party as they face choice after ill-fated choice, leading them to the events that history has recorded as one of the most bizarre and spectacular tragedies in the entirety of westward migration.

See the story unfold through the eyes of 9-year-old Nancy Graves, and meet members of the families that endured the events of that terrible winter. Consider both sides of arguments to continue the trek or backtrack to a more well-known trail. Meet characters of diverse backgrounds, from natural-born Americans to people of Irish, Dutch and German descent, friendly and hostile Native Americans, children, teens, and adults alike.

This epic, life-and-death adventure educates and informs readers about factual events in American history. And best of all, it features 13 fictional alternate endings built around numerous historical facts to help convey a sense of life in the American West in the mid-19th century with a gripping tale of hope, hardship, loss, and survival. Will you survive Winter at Truckee Lake?