Previous Books

The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition
In 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee stock toured the territories of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The Canoe and the Saddle recounts Theodore Winthrop’s Northwest tour. It became a bestseller when it was published shortly after the author’s untimely death in the Civil War.This critical edition of Winthrop’s work, the first in over half a century, offers readers the original text with a narrative overview of the nature and culture of the Pacific Northwest and reflections on the ecological and racial turmoil that gripped the region at the time.

History and Folklore of the Cowichan Indians

In the late 1800s, Martha Douglas Harris, the daughter of the former governor of British Columbia, observed that "civilization" was destroying the "native dignity and wholesome life" of the Cowichan tribe of Vancouver, "substituting much evil for the real good found in their former customs and character." She herself was part Cree Indian—a fact that her father was none too eager to make public. But he and her mother had long since passed away, and so Harris wrote this book of 20 folktales in 1901, partly to honor her Native American heritage.

From Lindholdt's introduction: "Reciting these legends to my own children, I have found that they contain the power to delight and amaze. ... There are unforgettable creation legends, a war song, epic heroes, and wild women. There are characters with all the rashness of Odysseus, the romantic compunction of the prodigal son and folklore motifs that parallel the classical epics and biblical parables."

John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler: A Critical Edition of "Two Voyages to New England."
This is a new edition of an unusual description of 17th-century New England flora and fauna, folklore, and the Indian and Puritan cultures of the time.