Sick Book Series Titles

The Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography

Sick Series Books are available for purchase through the University of Washington Press website.


Oregon’s Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century

By Kimberly Jensen


Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City

By Megan Asaka


Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon

By Peter Boag


Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed

By Alexandra Harmon


Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender in the Pacific Slope

By Christopher Herbert


In Defense of Wyam: Native-White Alliances and the Struggle for Celilo Village

By Katrine Barber


Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920

By Kazuhiro Oharazeki


Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West

By Jen Corrinne Brown


The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific

Edited by Moon-Ho Jung


Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920

By Diana L. Di Stefano


The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea

By Lissa K. Wadewitz


Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West

By John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly


A Home for Every Child: Relinquishment, Adoption, and the Washington Children’s Home Society, 1896-1915

By Patricia Susan Hart


Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity

By Andrew H. Fisher


Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West

By Lorraine McConaghy


The Power of Promises: Perspectives on Indian Treaties of the Pacific Northwest

Edited by Alexandra Harmon


Death of Celilo Falls

By Katrine Barber


Bringing Indians to the Book

By Albert Furtwangler


Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Louis Fiset and Hail M. Nomura


Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies

Edited by John M. Findlay and Ken S. Coates


Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics

By Robert G. Kaufman


Power and Place in the North American West

Edited by Richard White and John M. Findlay


The Atomic West

Edited by Bruce Hevly and John  M. Findlay


Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America

By Shelby Scates


The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era

By Quintard Taylor


The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906

By Michael P. Malone


Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917

By Carlos A. Schwantes


Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900

By Thomas R. Cox


The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910

By Donald W. Meinig