
Puget's Sound
A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound
- 488 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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 a raucous parade of saloonkeepers, politicians, union organizers, schemers, and swindlers. His account begins with the landing of Captain Vancouver in Puget Sound in 1792 and ends with the founding of Fort Lewis in 1916. Between are the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, the boom-and-bust of lumber mills, the anti-Chinese riots of 1885, and more distinctive 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 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