Puget's Sound : A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Washington Pr
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Summary

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 southern Puget Sound, where major events of Washington's history took place, and of Tacoma, the area's principal city. Drawing upon the original journals and reports, Morgan tells his story largely in terms of individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with those who are more obscure but who have a special significance. Journalist and historian Murray Morgan (1916-2000) was the author of more than twenty books, including Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle and The Last Wilderness. He worked for Time magazine, the New York Herald Tribune, and CBS News before returning to Washington where he taught at Tacoma Community College and for fifteen years hosted the early morning radio show "Our Town, Our World."

Author Biography

Murray Morgan taught at Tacoma Community College and for fifteen years hosted the early morning radio show "Our Town, Our World."

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
William L. Lang
The Eyes of Discovery. . .
3(15)
The Eyes of Exploitation. . .
18(23)
The Eyes of Empire. . .
41(35)
The Engineer and the Indians
76(63)
The Quaker, the Boomer, and the Railroad
139(29)
The Gap Is Closed
168(27)
``Bore, Bennett, Bore''
195(17)
``The Chinese Must Go''
212(41)
Instant Tacoma
253(22)
The Uses of Adversity
275(27)
Absentees and Hometowners
302(24)
One Man's Tacoma
326(7)
Acknowledgments 333(2)
Notes on Sources 335(16)
Index 351

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