Book Events for CreekRunningNorth

19th century

• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Abolitionist Movement

• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild

Anthropocene extinction

• Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds by Christopher Cokinos
• Twilight of the mammoths : ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America by Paul S. Martin

Battle of the Little Bighorn

• The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization 1800-1890 by Richard Slotkin (1876-06-26)

Bear Flag Revolt

• The Year of Decision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto

Big Blowup

• Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 by Stephen J. Pyne (1910-08-20)

California Gold Rush

• California Gold by Rodman W. Paul
• A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series, 2) (1848–1855)

climate change

• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan

Cretaceous Period

• Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? by David M. Raup

Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

• Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? by David M. Raup

Dedication of the Glen Canyon Dam

• Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (1966)

Disaster: Volcano Eruption

• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester

Discovery of Great Salt Lake

• The Great Salt Lake by Dale Lowell Morgan (by James Bridger)

Donner Party

• Snow Mountain passage : a novel by James D. Houston (1847)

Donner Party Departs Missouri for California

• The Year of Decision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto

droughts

• The Destruction of California by Raymond F. Dasmann

Dust Bowl Era

• A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold

earthquakes

• The Destruction of California by Raymond F. Dasmann

Ebola Reston discovery

• The Hot Zone: a Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston (1989)

Eradication of smallpox

• Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox by Jonathan B. Tucker

extinction

• Extinct Birds (Comstock Books) by Errol Fuller

Extinction of the dinosaurs

• Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? by David M. Raup

Fall of Mexico City

• The Year of Decision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto (1847-09-14)

forest fires

• The Destruction of California by Raymond F. Dasmann

global warming

• Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming by Tom Athanasiou

Harriman Expedition

• Wilderness World of John Muir by John Muir

Haun's Mill Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Oct 30, 1838)

Irish Potato Famine

• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan

Japanese-American Internment

• Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community by David Neiwert (1945)

Krakatoa Eruption

• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester (1883)

Laotian Civil War

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Manifest Destiny

• The Year of Decision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto

Mau Mau Uprising

• Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (1960)

Mexican-American War

• The Year of Decision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto (1848)

Mono Lake Water Dispute

• Storm over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future by John Hart (1979-1994)

Mormon Exodus

• The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail by Wallace Earle Stegner

Mountain Meadows Massacre

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Sept. 11, 1857)

Permian Mass Extinction

• Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? by David M. Raup

Pleistocene Epoch

• Rancho La Brea - A Record of Pleistocene Life in California 1961 Stock, Chester by Chester Stock

Raid on Short Creek, Arizona, July 26, 1953

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

Rwandan Genocide

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (1994)

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

• A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester

Scramble for Africa

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

September 11 Attacks

• I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould

Spanish-American War

• The Paranoid Style in American Politics: And Other Essays by Richard Hofstadter (1898)

Theory of Evolution

• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Victorian Era

• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Vietnam War

• The Brothers K by David James Duncan
• Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from a Long War by Gloria Emerson

Voyage of the HMS Beagle

• The Voyage of The Beagle by Charles Darwin

water quality

• The Destruction of California by Raymond F. Dasmann

Western Migration

• The Year of Decision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto (1846)

Wilmot Proviso

• The Year of Decision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto

World War II

• Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community by David Neiwert (1945)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community by David Neiwert (1945-09-02)

The Year without a Summer

• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan