Confederacy of Ambition
William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory
The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he fulfilled his grandest ambitions. By the time of his death in 1876, Miller had amassed one of the largest private fortunes in the territory and had used it creatively in developing the region�s assets, leaving a significant mark on the territory�s political and economic history.Appointed Surveyor of Customs at the newly created Port of Nisqually in 1851, Miller was the first federal official north…
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- ISBN: 978-0-295-80277-0
- EAN: 9780295802770
- Produktnummer: 20514619
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'037 KB
- Abbildungen: 23 illus.
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William L. Lang
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