Most Popular Books by Doug Holgate

The first thorough historical account of the great Washington State city and its hero, Chief Seattle—the Native American war leader who advocated for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community. When the British, Spanish, and then Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, it may have appeared to them as an untamed wilderness. In fact, it was a fully settled and populated land. Chief Seattle was a powerful representative from this very ancient world. Here, historian David Buerge threads together disparate accounts of the time from the 1780s to the 1860s—including native oral histories, Hudson Bay Company records, pioneer diaries, French Catholic church records, and historic newspaper reporting. Chief Seattle had gained power and prominence on Puget Sound as a war leader, but the arrival of American settlers caused him to reconsider his actions. He came to embrace white settlement and, following traditional native practice, encouraged intermarriage between native people and the settlers—offering his own daughter and granddaughters as brides—in the hopes that both peoples would prosper. Included in this account are the treaty signings that would remove the natives from their historic lands, the roles of such figures as Governor Isaac Stevens, Chiefs Leschi and Patkanim, the Battle at Seattle that threatened the existence of the settlement, and the controversial Chief Seattle speech that haunts to this day the city that bears his name.

Zack is back!

Our favorite fearless space hero, Zack is still on the lookout for his lost spacecraft, the Risky Rascal. Suddenly, he and Omega Chimp receive a class 2-B distress signal -- a group of orbiting second graders is in need of a hand! A renegade band of warrior space mice -- the Warlords of Nibblecheese -- has kidnapped the class's teacher. Not only are these pint-sized rodents planning to destroy the Earth, but they also want to eat the moon (everyone knows it's made of cheese!). Zack knows he must spring into action -- even if it does mean saving Mrs. Craterbrain, the very teacher who gave him tons of math homework! Can Zack, a genuine intergalactic space hero, trap this army of cheese-hungry, teacher-stealing pip-squeaks, or has the final bell rung for planet Earth?