Skid Road An Informal Portrait of Seattle

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Morgan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seattle (Wash.)--History.

Seattle (Wash.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1982.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Skid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city’s history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and railroad industries, the great fire of 1889, the Alaska gold rush, flourishing dens of vice, the 1919 general strike, the 1962 World’s Fair, and the stuttering growth of the 1970s and ’80s. Through it all, Morgan shows us that Seattle’s one constant is change and that its penchant for reinvention has always been fueled by creative, if sometimes unorthodox, residents.With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Mary Ann Gwinn, this redesigned edition of Murray Morgan’s classic work is a must for those interested in how Seattle got to where it is today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

A NOTE ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE TO THE 1982 EDITION

One Man’s Seattle

1 DOC MAYNARD AND THE INDIANS, 1852–1873

2 MARY KENWORTHY AND THE RAILROADS, 1873–1893

3 JOHN CONSIDINE AND THE BOX-HOUSES, 1893–1910

4 HIRAM GILL AND THE NEWSPAPERS, 1910–1918

5 DAVE BECK: LABOR AND POLITICS, 1918–1960

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295743509

0295743506

OCLC:

1057692398