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

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Title:

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

Author:

Morgan, Murray Cromwell, 1916-2000 author.

General Note:

Includes index.

Physical Description:

x, 360 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Geographic Term:

Tacoma (Wash.) -- History.

Puget Sound Region (Wash.) -- History.

Publisher:

University of Washington Press,

Publication Date:

1979

ISBN:

9780295956800

Publication Information:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1979.

Call Number:

979.7 MORGAN

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"Morgan's history is an informal epic of adventure and avarice, of courage and venality. . . . Puget's Sound will help to sustain the vitality of the school of thought that believes history is, after all, about people." - The Pacific Historian Columbia Northwest Classics

Author Notes

Journalist and historian Murray Morgan (1916-2000) was the author of more than twenty books. 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."

William L. Lang

Foreword	p. vii
The Eyes of Discovery	p. 3
The Eyes of Exploitation	p. 18
The Eyes of Empire	p. 41
The Engineer and the Indians	p. 76
The Quaker, the Boomer, and the Railroad	p. 139
The Gap Is Closed	p. 168
"Bore, Bennett, Bore"	p. 195
"The Chinese Must Go"	p. 212
Instant Tacoma	p. 253
The Uses of Adversity	p. 275
Absentees and Hometowners	p. 302
One Man's Tacoma	p. 326
Acknowledgments	p. 333
Notes on Sources	p. 335
Index	p. 351

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