"With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, "the City of Destiny," and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington's history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget's Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with those who are more obscure but have a special significance: a colorful parade of saloonkeepers, ...
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"With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, "the City of Destiny," and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington's history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget's Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with those who are more obscure but have a special significance: a colorful parade of saloonkeepers, politicians, union organizers, schemers, and swindlers. Morgan begins his account with the landing of Captain Vancouver in Puget Sound in 1792 and ends with the founding of Fort Lewis in 1916, the year the author was born. Between are the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, the boom-and-bust of lumber mills, the anti-Chinese riots of 1885, and more unique Northwest history that will intrigue both new arrivals and longtime residents. With a new introduction by historian and historic preservationist Michael Sean Sullivan, this redesigned edition of Puget's Sound brings new life to Morgan's landmark history of the South Sound and the early days of Tacoma."--Provided by publisher.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x6x0; The binding is Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Text and images unmarked. Dj shelf worn with scuffs, creases, toning & small tears in a mylar cover.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979. 1st printing. Prior owner's name in red ink on front pastedown. Full cloth binding. 360pp. Illustrations. Dust jacket is good only, worn and with small chips and nicks along upper edge. Offered now in a new mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by the author blank front endpaper. (x) 360 pages, b/w plates, index, illustrated endpapers, 8vo, black cloth. Near fine; dust jacket very good, small chip end of spine, light wear.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. In pictorial jacket, 8vo 360pp. Illustrated. (fading, edgewear and sm. nicks to jacket extremities, gift inscription to half-title page).