Green Timber: On the Flood Tide to Fortune in the Great Northwest

Green Timber: On the Flood Tide to Fortune in the Great Northwest by Thomas Emerson Ripley. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780345025135.

Thomas Emerson Ripleys "Green Timber" is a reminiscent account of the authors arrival in Tacoma in 1890 as a young man of twenty-five, when the town, created a scant few years earlier by the grace of the Northern Pacific, was engaged in a mighty struggle with the older Seattle for pre-eminence in the Puget Sound country. Ripley had a fine eye for detail and a flair for capturing the mood and spirit of the times in print. -- Kent Richards, Central Washington State College