The Last Wilderness - 9780295745336

The Last WildernessAuthor(s): Murray Morgan, Tim McNulty\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295745336, 978-0295745336\nSynopsis\nMurray Morgans classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon.\""\n\nDrawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid adventures of the areas settlersloggers, hunters, prospectors, homesteaders, utopianists, murderers, profit-seekers, conservationists, Wobblies, and bureaucratsalongside stories of coastal first peoples and striking descriptions of the peninsulas wildlife and land.\n\nFreshly .