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Murray Morgan here tells the colourful story of southern Puget Sound, where major events of Washington's history took place, and of Tacoma, the area's principal city. Drawing upon the original journals and reports, Morgan tells his story largely in terms of individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with those who are more obscure but who have a special significance.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
The Eyes of Discovery
The Eyes of Exploitation
The Eyes of Empire
The Engineer and the Indians
The Quaker, the Boomer, and the Railroad
The Gap is Closed
“Bore, Bennett, Bore”
“The Chinese Must Go”
Instant Tacoma
The Uses of Adversity
Absentees and Hometowners
One Man’s Tacoma
Acknowledgments
Notes on Sources
Index



About the Author :

Murray Morgan (1916-2000) was the author of more than twenty books, including Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle and The Last Wilderness. He worked for Time magazine, the New York Herald Tribune, and CBS News before returning to Washington where he taught at Tacoma Community College and for fifteen years hosted the early morning radio show



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"This lively history recounts Tacoma's story from the arrival of Vancouver in 1792 to the establishment of Fort Lewis in 1916. Like so many other towns, Tacoma thought of itself as the 'City of Destiny.' For a time it seemed possible. Great lumbering and smelting industries sprang up, and two continental railroads reached the port. But Tacoma never recovered from the panic of 1893... An absorbing account peopled with fascinating characters."--Library Journal "No one who has ever written Pacific Northwest history can match Murray Morgan's craftsmanship, the signal virtues of which are pace, precision, humor, and a keen eye for the characterizing--rather than the characteristic--detail, the face or the action that can reveal the character of a person or an era. Though the research is always solid, the perspective is eagerly critical, eagerly creative."--Norman Clark, Pacific Northwest Quarterly "Morgan's history is an informal epic of adventure and avarice, of courage and venality... Puget's Sound ... will help to sustain the vitality of the school of thought that believes history is, after all, about people."--The Pacific Historian


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780295983035
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0295983035
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 388
  • Weight: 567 gr


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