Ficken, of Issaquah, Washington State, published Unsettled Boundaries: Fraser Gold and the British-American Northwest (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2003). The same press published Netta Sterne's Fraser Gold 1858! Ficken's other titles include Washington Territory, Rufus Woods and The Columbia River, and the Building of Modern Washington.

[BCBW 2004] "Early B.C." "Gold"