Local, Local Nonfiction, Spokane 

If you call yourself an Inlander, you need to know the stories. Do you remember those ancient ivory tusks pulled from a farm down on the Palouse? What happened after fur trappers set up their first trading post on the Spokane River? Or how a local basketball team captivated the nation? What about “The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done”? A World’s Fair? Those are just a few of the tales that define the rich history of the Inland Northwest — stories that were first retold in the pages of the Inlander newspaper starting in 1993. In Inlander Histories, you’ll meet Nell Shipman, the silent film star who launched her own studio on the shores of Priest Lake. You’ll hop a flight over Mt. St. Helens on a particularly memorable day. And you’ll learn how Walt Worthy kept the dream of Louis Davenport alive in downtown Spokane. Noted local historians Jack Nisbet, Robert Carriker and William Stimson join Inlander staff writers, including Sheri Boggs, Andrew Strickman and Mike Bookey, to take you on a tour of some of the most important moments in the region’s past. Collected together for the first time, Inlander Histories pieces together the tapestry of Eastern Washington and North Idaho culture, creating a rare document of life in the “inland” part of this corner of the continent. CHAPTERS 1. Signs of Life, Spokane County 2. The Missoula Floods 3. The Bard of Grand Coulee: Woody Guthrie 4. Life at Spokane House 5. The Good Indian: Spokane Garry 6. Mammoths of the Palouse 7. Man on a Mission: Fr. Joseph Cataldo 8. News of the Year: 1899 9. Winning the Vote: May Arkwright Hutton 10. Strange Days at Monaghan Mansion 11. Mystery of the Moscow Flowers 12. The Viewfinder: Charles Libby 13. The Brewmaster: Bernhardt Schade 14. Priest Lake Producer: Nell Shipman 15. Joe Peirone’s First Truck 16. A Bing Crosby Christmas 17. Remembering Spokane in the 1950s 18. Clean-Cut Radicals: The Chad Mitchell Trio 19. Expo ’74: 25 Years After 20. Flight With Destiny: Mt. St. Helens 21. Veteran Eclectic: Harold Balazs 22. Marquee Names: Fox and Woldson 23. Saving the Davenport Hotel 24. Zag Nation - from Amzon