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The last wilderness : a history of the Olympic Peninsula
- Title
- The last wilderness : a history of the Olympic Peninsula / Murray Morgan ; introduction by Tim McNulty.
- Author
- Morgan, Murray, 1916-2000
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-820 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McNulty, Tim
- Description
- xxix, 262 pages : map; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Wilderness areas
- Natural history
- Natural history > Washington (State) > Olympic Peninsula
- Olympic Peninsula (Wash.) > History, Local
- Local history
- Biographies
- Wilderness areas > Washington (State) > Olympic Peninsula > History
- Olympic Peninsula (Wash.) > Biography
- Olympic Peninsula (Wash.) > History
- History
- Washington (State) > Olympic Peninsula
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Local history.
- Note
- "First published by The Viking Press and The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1955"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-820
- ISBN
- 9780295745350
- 0295745355
- 9780295745336
- 0295745339
- LCCN
- 2018054733
- OCLC
- 1057758132
- Author
- Morgan, Murray, 1916-2000, author.
- Title
- The last wilderness : a history of the Olympic Peninsula / Murray Morgan ; introduction by Tim McNulty.
- Publisher
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
- Edition
- [Second edition].
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- REPRINT OF 1976 ED.
- Added Author
- McNulty, Tim, writer of introductory text.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Morgan, Murray, 1916-2000. Last wilderness. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019] 9780295745343 (DLC) 2019000794
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-820