Puget`s Sound – A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound Morgan

Puget's SoundA Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound\nAuthor(s): Murray Morgan, Michael Sean Sullivan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295744230, 978-0295744230\nSynopsis\nWith 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 Washingtons history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Pugets Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with a raucous parade of saloonkeepers, politicians, union organizers, schemers, and swindlers. His account begins with the landing of Captain Vancouver in Puget Sound in 1792 and ends with the founding of Fort Lewis in 1916. Between are the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, the boom-and-bus.