ROBERT’S RULES
SELECTED INLANDER COLUMNS: 1994-2017BY ROBERT HEROLD
Available at local bookstores across the Inland Northwest, and for your Kindle, in November 2017Since 1994, Robert Herold has been getting readers in the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene area to nod in agreement or shake their heads in puzzlement in about equal doses. Here are some of his best Inlander columns, covering everything from goings-on down at City Hall to misadventures in Washington, D.C. Robert’s Rules travels from Tom Foley to the Age of Trump, and from the battle over a new bridge over Spokane Falls to the Attacks of 9/11, these essays will take you back over the rugged terrain that’s been traveled these past three decades.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In 1938, Robert Herold was born in Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital to a Navy family that moved around a lot — from La Jolla, California, to Annapolis, Maryland, to Arlington, Virginia. He graduated with a B.S. in political science from Brigham Young University; he earned his master’s and Ph.D. at The George Washington University, then worked on research projects for the Department of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense. In 1969, he started his teaching career at Eastern Washington University, rising to executive vice provost. Most recently, he has taught at Gonzaga University as an adjunct professor of political science. He is married to Barre McNeil, has five children and lives on Spokane’s South Hill. He continues to write a monthly column for the Inlander. Roberts Rule's Now Available on Kindle!INLANDER HISTORIES, VOLUME 2
PEOPLE WHO SHAPED THE INLAND NORTHWEST
Available across the Inland Northwest in November 2015Since 1993, the Inlander has been sharing stories of the people and events that have made the Inland Northwest so unique. Now you can read 15 of them in Inlander Histories, Volume 2.
You'll meet the man who not only survived Prohibition, but thrived right on through the dry years. Read all about the Sisters of Providence, who built Spokane's first hospital from the back of a pony. And then there's the legend of Nat Park and how a certain couple's connections brought the Looff Carrousel to Spokane.
Local historians and authors first brought these people to life in the pages of the Inlander, and now they're collected here, including:
Jess Walter on Dashiell Hammett's Davenport detour;
Sheri Boggs on Bing Crosby's deep ties to his hometown;
Jack Nisbet on Mourning Dove's mark on regional literature;
and Robert Carriker on Lewis and Clark's continental crossing.
You'll find that and more inside Inlander Histories, Volume 2. And if you missed it, pick up a copy of 2014's Volume 1 as well.
VOLUME 2 CHAPTERS- The Prodigious Son: Bing Crosby
- The Detective and the Davenport: Dashiell Hammett
- Wobblies on the Corner: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- The Prince of Prohibition: Albert Commellini
- Frontier Dreambuilder: Kirtland Cutter
- The Ringmasters of Nat Park: Louis and Emma Vogel
- Captain Coeur d'Alene: Peter Sorensen
- People of the Century: 1900 - 2000
- Healing Pioneers: The Sisters of Providence
- The Speaker from Spokane: Tom Foley
- Blending In, Standing Out: Ed Tsutakawa
- Father's Footsteps: Carl Maxey
- A Tangled Legacy: James Glover
- The Wanderer: Jaco Finlay
- Into the Unknown: Lewis and Clark
INLANDER HISTORIES, VOLUME 1
Timeless Tales of Spokane and the Inland Northwest
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If you call yourself an Inlander, you need to know the stories. Do you remember those ancient ivory tusks pulled from a farm down on the Palouse? What happened after fur trappers set up their first trading post on the Spokane River? Or how a local basketball team captivated the nation? What about "The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done"? A World's Fair?
Noted local historians Jack Nisbet, Robert Carriker and William Stimson join Inlander staff writers, including Sheri Boggs, Andrew Strickman and Mike Bookey, to take you on a tour of some of the most important moments in the region's past. Collected together for the first time, Inlander Histories pieces together the tapestry of Eastern Washington and North Idaho culture, creating a rare document of life in the "inland" part of this corner of the continent.
VOLUME 1 CHAPTERS
- Signs of Life, Spokane County
- The Missoula Floods
- The Bard of Grand Coulee: Woody Guthrie
- Life at Spokane House
- The Good Indian: Spokane Garry
- Mammoths of the Palouse
- Man on a Mission: Fr. Joseph Cataldo
- News of the Year: 1899
- Winning the Vote: May Arkwright Hutton
- Strange Days at Monaghan Mansion
- Mystery of the Moscow Flowers
- The Viewfinder: Charles Libby
- The Brewmaster: Bernhardt Schade
- Priest Lake Producer: Nell Shipman
- Joe Peirone's First Truck
- A Bing Crosby Christmas
- Remembering Spokane in the 1950s
- Clean-Cut Radicals: The Chad Mitchell Trio
- Expo '74: 25 Years After
- Flight With Destiny: Mt. St. Helens
- Veteran Eclectic: Harold Balazs
- Marquee Names: Fox and Woldson
- Saving the Davenport Hotel
- Zag Nation
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