Puget's Sound : a narrative of early Tacoma and the southern sound /

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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 jou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morgan, Murray, 1916-2000 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle (Wash.) : University of Washington Press, 2018.
Subjects:
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Puget Sound (Wash.) > History.
Tacoma (Wash.) > History.
Puget Sound (Wash.) > Histoire.
Pacific Ocean > Puget Sound
Washington (State) > Tacoma
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Michael Sean Sullivan
  • 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
  • Man's Tacoma.

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