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The last wilderness, a history of the Olympic Peninsula, Murray Morgan ; introduction by Tim McNulty

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

contains biographical information

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

maps

index present

non fiction

The last wilderness

bibliography

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Murray Morgan ; introduction by Tim McNulty

a history of the Olympic Peninsula

"Murray Morgan's 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.' Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid adventures of the area's settlers--loggers, hunters, prospectors, homesteaders, utopianists, murderers, profit-seekers, conservationists, Wobblies, and bureaucrats--alongside stories of coastal first peoples and striking descriptions of the peninsula's wildlife and land. Freshly redesigned and with a new introduction by poet and environmentalist Tim McNulty, this humor-filled saga and landmark love story of one of the most formidably beautiful regions of the Pacific Northwest will inform and engage a new generation of readers"--, Provided by publisher

In the time before everything changed -- Port Townsend : a matter of customs -- The lumber ports -- The god Terminus -- Home : no place like it -- Grays Harbor : the era of violence -- Olympic National Park : the fight the Iron Man lost -- Shelton and the hundred-year cycle -- Gersh's damned paradise -- This veritable breed -- Land's end