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Carlos A. Schwantes

Author of The Pacific Northwest

20+ Works 496 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

Carlos A. Schwantes is Professor of History at the University of Idaho.

Includes the names: Carlos Schwantes, Carlos A. Schwantes

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Works by Carlos A. Schwantes

The Pacific Northwest (1989) 156 copies

Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest (1993) 59 copies

Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West (1999) 40 copies

Washington: Images of a State's Heritage (1988) 34 copies

Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West (2003) 27 copies

Hard Traveling: A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest (1995) 24 copies

The West the Railroads Made (2008) 24 copies

In Mountain Shadows: A History of Idaho (1991) 23 copies

Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917 (1979) 21 copies

Bisbee: Urban Outpost on the Frontier (1992) 15 copies

Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey (1985) 15 copies

So Incredibly Idaho: Seven Landscapes That Define the Gem State (1996) 13 copies

Columbia River (2000) 11 copies, 1 review

Vision and Enterprise: Exploring the History of Phelps Dodge Corporation (2000) 8 copies

Just One Restless Rider: Reflections on Trains and Travel (2009) 7 copies

Encounters with a Distant Land: Exploration and the Great Northwest (1994) 7 copies

Electric Indiana: The Rise and Fall of the World's Greatest Interurban Railway Center, 1893–1941 (2023) 5 copies, 1 review

Pacific Northwest in World War II (1986) 4 copies

EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT LIFE I LEARNED FROM THE PENNSY. (2001) 2 copies

Railroad Nation: The Art of Selling America, 1825–1925 (Railroads Past and Present) 1 copy

Associated Works

Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990) — Contributor, some editions — 119 copies

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Main Associated

American history (6) American West (9) history (47) Idaho (11) labor (8) NF (3) non-fiction (25) Northwest (10) Oregon (12) own (3) Pacific Northwest (36) Pacific Northwest history (5) photography (8) pictorial history (4) PNW (8) railroad history (4) Railroads (30) reference (3) Sean (5) stagecoaches (4) to-read (5) trains (5) transportation (15) unread (5) US history (8) USA (6) Washington (11) Washington State (5) Western History (4) workers (3)

Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Schwantes, Carlos A.
Legal name: Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo
Birthdate: 1945-03-07
Gender: male
Education: University of Michigan (MA, PhD -History)
Andrews University (BA)
Occupations: professor (History)
historian
Organizations: University of Idaho
St. Louis Merchantile Library
American Historical Association
Mining History Association
Organization of American Historians
University of Missouri–St. Louis
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Places of residence: Moscow, Idaho, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Columbia River : gateway to the West by Carlos A. Schwantes

This is a great introduction to the Columbia River, especially the Gorge. Great photography and great history.

EDRA54 284 reviews

Electric Indiana: The Rise and Fall of the World's Greatest Interurban Railway Center, 1893–1941 (Railroads Past and Present) by Carlos A. Schwantes

https://iupress.org/9780253067128/electric-indiana/

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Awards

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Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award

Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest (Winner – 1994)

Railroad History Book Award

Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest (1995)

Joan Patterson Kerr Award

Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West (2001)

Idaho Book of the Year Award

Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest (Honorable Mention – honorable mention – 1993)

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Statistics

Works: 20
Also by: 1
Members: 496
Popularity: #49,830
Rating: 3.9

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 34

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