Over the years, Rose Wind Press and author/editor Mary Kline Rose have published a number of fascinating as well as unusual books with great variety and purpose. Regrettably, most of the printing runs were small and some of the books are out of print such as Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood written by his son ErskineWood, but these are often found as used books in the major on-line marketplaces. Research, like publishing demands extensive reading lists, internet access and libraries. The residual research volumes of Rose Wind Press -- those books that might be of interest to other readers or researchers -- are offered through our online shop Rosewind.alibrisstore.com. Thousands of other volumes are easily accessible from other book sellers through this gateway and other book outlets.
The primary focus of Rose Wind Press continues to emphasize maritime, military and Pacific Northwest history. Technology has conveniently broadened access to valuable research materials and private holdings formerly unavailable but it remains for the historian and the reader to assemble these resources into meaningful knowledge of our heritage and the inherent people we truly all are.
The following is a sampling of Rose Wind Press titles still available at Rosewind.alibrisstore.com and often at your favorite book outlet.
A Great Blessing traces the lives and faith of early Washington pioneers who founded the first Methodist churches and many of the earliest communities. Based on diaries, journals, and memoirs, the triumphs and hardships of itinerant ministers, pioneer women, loggers, farmers, and merchants united and sometimes divided over matters of religion, education and social structures that built the Northwest. Human behavior and neighborly support often superceded church conference doctrines as Washingtonians grappled with issues of women's independence, natiev enfranchisement, the role of labor unions vs. industrial owners, and social equality, racial acceptance and gay/lesbian community. In the 20th Century, the Methodist Church responded directly to the needs of foreign immigrants to the state took the Methodist faith to the people -- in lumber camps, to the rail yards, and to communities that burgeoned with soldiers and sailors during WWI, WWII, and Vietnam.
A Great Blessing is focussed on the development of the Coupeville United Methodist Church on Whidbey Island and the tangled threads that emerged in Washington politics, law, education, racial, and social acceptance through labor and industry, and the quality of life as it emerged in over 150 years in Washington State.
Published December 2003 -- $30 plus postage and handling.
You'll fly from the ends of the earth and throughout the Pacific Northwest in the fast-paced adventures of a pilot journalist. Lev Richards' reporting career began in the 1930s; he learned to fly a few years later, trained WWII pilots and continued to fly past his 90th birthday. Trained to write objectively, Richards takes the reader behind the scenes of some of the world's major stories in the Arctic, the Antarctic, and all the way points between. He retired from The Oregonian twice, covered the on-the-night birth of North America's first elephant birth, the eruptions of Mt. St. Helens, the D.B. Cooper caper, the Russian transpolar flight. His captivating stories include characters like Blowtorch Morgan, mythical beasts, and people who have survived the challenges of nature and the joys of living. A great writer and a practical man, Lev Richards was an historian, a pilot, an accomplished pilot, and a treasure of the 20th Century.
