Washington's History: The People Land and Events of the Far Northwest (Westwinds Press Pocket Guides)
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An anything-but-dry history textbook in a pocket-sized package WASHINGTONS HISTORY is a fascinating walk through the lengthy story of a place and its people. Historian Harry Ritter introduces the Native American peoples who lived in the regions coastal rainforests and inland plateau the European and U.S. seafarers who explored and mapped the complicated shores and islands and the leaders involved in conflicts over boundaries resources and religion. Theres the story of The Pig War which began with an assassinated pig in 1859 and escalated into an international skirmish. Read about the construction of the massive Grand Coulee Dam in 1933 and the creation and aftermath of Hanford and the hopefulness surrounding the Worlds Fair. And then theres the land itself: vast stirring in its stark beauty and fearsome when natural disaster strikes as it has in every century. Ritter offers fifty-two lively vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that together comprise a picture of life in the Far Northwest. Learn about the Natives explorers traders missionaries loggers farmers inventors and politicians. From Chief Seattle to Dr. John McLoughlin William E. Boeing Henry M. ""Scoop"" Jackson and Bill Gates these are the people at the epicenter of events that shaped the Evergreen State.
