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Priest River General Store in 1911.

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All profit from the sale of these items supports the continuing work of the Historical Society. Please visit the museum to view our complete selection of regional history publications.

Call 208.263.2344 to order by phone

Sandpoint: at the North End of the Long Bridge

With selections from hours of personal interviews and contemporary footage and hundreds of classic black and white and color still images, this film tells the compelling history of Sandpoint and surrounding area. Running time approximately 2 hours.

VHS or DVD - $25.00

Beautiful Bonner History and Memories

Volume 1 of Beautiful Bonner is no longer available, but the stories continue in this volume published in 2000. The history of Bonner County's schools, businesses, organizations, communities, industries, and families fill the pages of this 552 page volume.

$50.00 - hardcover

Bayview and Lakeview
and other early settlements on southern Lake Pend Oreille

$14.95 - softcover

Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country

Spokane author, Jack Nisbet, explores the melding of natural and human history in the Columbia River country. His subjects include the journey of a fossil trilobite, the disappearance of Northwest condors, a trove of mammoth bones, the whispers of a fading language, and the family of a legendary fur trade scout. 246 pages

$23.95 - hardcover

Sources of the River

In this true story of adventure, Spokane author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson - fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the Inland Northwest. Nisbet tracks the explorer across the continent, interweaving his own observations with Thompson's historical writings. 280 pages.

$14.95 - softcover

Pocket Girdles

What's a pocket girdle? The answer and other confessions about life in the rural Northwest can be found in this uproarious collection of autobiographical stories by Sandpoint author Marianne Love. The stories explore 4-H traumas, junior high disasters, Catholic guilt, and more, in one adventurous laugh after another. 213 pages.

$9.95 - softcover