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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Murray Morgan; Mary Ann Gwinn |
ISBN: | 9780295743493 0295743492 |
OCLC Number: | 1046660386 |
Notes: | Previously published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1982. With new introduction. |
Description: | xxx, 304 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / Mary Ann Gwinn -- A note about the illustrations -- Preface to the 1982 edition -- One man's Seattle -- Doc Maynard and the Indians, 1852-1873 ; Mercer's maidens -- Mary Kenworthy and the railroads, 1873-1893 ; Fire -- John Considine and the box-houses, 1893-1910 ; Gold -- Hiram Gill and the newspapers, 1910-1918 ; Strike -- Dave Beck: Labor and politics, 1918-1960 ; The wheel turns and turns. |
Responsibility: | Murray Morgan ; introduction by Mary Ann Gwinn. |
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This often anecdotal history of the city focuses on key people and incidents, to good effect. * The Rough Guide to Seattle * The best-selling portrait of the city's pioneers, and the area that lent its name to skid row sections of other cities. * American Planning Association * Murray Morgan, no question about it, is one the Pacific Northwest's most competent word craftsmen. He can take history (which need not be dull, but frequently is) and make it read like first-rate fiction. * Alaskafest * A lively view of the lumbering boom town during its first hundred years. * Journal of Forest History * Morgan portrays the people and the city with affection, delight, honesty and humor. More history should be written in this manner. * The Pacific Historian * You can probably find this book lying around the house of anyone who's been in Seattle long enough to get even a little bit interested in the city's past. . . . [Morgan is] exactly the kind of guy you'd probably enjoy having show you around town. -- Eli Sanders * The Stranger * Skid Road served as an accent to successive periods in Seattle's history, from its gawdy boisterous uncontrolled days as the takeoff for the Alaskan gold fields, to the settling down to a staid respectability. . . . There were days of questionable ethics, in journalism, in politics. There were reformers. And throughout, the exceptional personality of the city itself dominates its story. * Kirkus Reviews * Mr. Morgan's book is the sort of corrective history that all communities should welcome. -- Stewart Holbrook * New York Herald Tribune * No one who has ever written Pacific Northwest history can match Murray Morgan's craftsmanship, the signal virtues of which are pace, precision, humor, and a keen eye for the characterizing detail. -- Norman Clark * Pacific Northwest Quarterly * Over more than half a century, no one has written a better book about Seattle. I keep looking for something, but Skid Road has our soul down cold. -- Timothy Egan, author of The Worst Hard Time Read more...

