An anything-but-dry history textbook in a pocket-sized package, WASHINGTON'S 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 region's 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. There's 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 World's Fair. And then there's 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.
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Ritter is a member of the history faculty at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, where he has taught since 1969. He received his doctorate in history from the University of Virginia.
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World War, Puget Sound, Hudson's Bay, Walla Walla, Grand Coulee, Washington Territory, New York, San Francisco, United States, Northern Pacific, Oregon Trail, Fort Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Columbia River, Mount Rainier, Evergreen State, Mount Baker, Nootka Sound, Spokane House, Isaac Stevens, Olympic Peninsula, Plateau Indians, Supreme Court, Willamette Valley, William Clark New!
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"The past is foreign country," novelist L. P. HartIey once wrote. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Puget Sound, Hudson's Bay, Walla Walla, Grand Coulee, Washington Territory, New York, San Francisco, United States, Northern Pacific, Oregon Trail, Fort Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Columbia River, Mount Rainier, Evergreen State, Mount Baker, Nootka Sound, Spokane House, Isaac Stevens, Olympic Peninsula, Plateau Indians, Supreme Court, Willamette Valley, William Clark New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Oregon Trail by The Learning Company on 4 pages
- Graphic Arts by Dr. Wilbur R. Miller in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Greetings from Washington by Lane Morgan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville by Washington Irving on page 47
- Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle by Murray Morgan in Back Matter
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