Puget's Sound
A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-295-74462-9
- EAN: 9780295744629
- Produktnummer: 29201849
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 488 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 10'717 KB
- Abbildungen: 80 b&w illus., 5 maps
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