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All profits from bookstore sales support our non-profit organization. Purchasing a book about Humboldt County History, gifts, or ephemeral items from our bookstore is a great way to support the work we do!

Back issues of the Humboldt Historian are available in the bookstore or by phone order. Due to the wide variation in shipping and handling costs, issues cannot be purchased online. Please call (707) 445-4342 during open hours to place your order. Bulk discounts are available!

New! Instead of the former short descriptions, we now have book reviews by archivist and local author, Pam Service. Check them out for information about our books.

We have a selection of used books which are not included on the website. If you’re looking for a particular book, please give us a call. We’ll be happy to check the shelves for you!

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Falk's Claim

Falk's Claim

from $13.45

Nominated for the Forest History Award, Falk’s Claim chronicles a lumber community from its bustling peak through its decline to a ghost town. Told through personal histories, it is a vivid portrait of a disappearing way of life in small rural communities. Richly illustrated with photographs, the daily lives emerge - trusted neighbors, rough-edged ways of the lumber camps, the town characters, the kids, the fights and festivities. Throughout this tale, the sense of change and renewal challenges our notions of permanence, reminding us that our history is but a moment when measured against the enduring cycles of nature.

       Gate's book presents Falk from a slightly different perspective. He himself is a descendant of Falk workers. After an historical Humboldt overview, he goes into the Falk family, their enterprises, life as a lumber worker, and many warm first-person accounts of those who lived and grew up in Falk.  This book also has a number of unique photos.

Falk’s Claim presents more than an historical explanation of a spot on the map marked "Falk". It gives us a view of a time, place and way of life that is now gone but, thanks to books like this, is not forgotten.

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Southwest Humboldt Hinterlands

Southwest Humboldt Hinterlands

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Timber Industry Ghosts

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Logging Railroads of Humboldt & Mendocino Counties

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Eureka & Humboldt County

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A Scottish Syndicate in the Redwoods: Monopoly & Fraud in the California Redwoods, 1882-1892 Scottish Syndicate Back.jpg

A Scottish Syndicate in the Redwoods: Monopoly & Fraud in the California Redwoods, 1882-1892

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