Murray Morgan

Skid Road

An Informal Portrait of Seattle

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Skid Road tells the story of Seattle �from the bottom up,� offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City�s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city�s history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and railroad industries, the great fire of 1889, the Alaska gold rush, flourishing dens of vice, general strikes, the 1962 World�s Fair, and the stuttering growth of the 1970s and �80s. Through it all, Morgan shows… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-295-74350-9
EAN: 9780295743509
Produktnummer: 26343594
Verlag: University of Washington Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 312 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 9'744 KB
Abbildungen: 35 b&w illus., 1 map (all illus are in insert except for Paul Dorpat map)