Record details

• Physical Description: ix, 313 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., c1941.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Map on lining-papers.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The mythical strait -- The pilgrim ship : [the Exact] -- A city is born -- Horses from the sea : [Tom Mercer brings the first horses to Seattle] -- Boom days -- Chief Seattle -- The [White River Valley] Massacre, [1855] -- The siege of Seattle : [Indian wars, 1856] -- Repercussions -- Kidnapping the university -- A saga of youth : [Asa S. Mercer brings orphaned young women to Washington Territory] -- The railroad turns aside [to Tacoma] -- The steel noose : [Seattle's fight for a railroad] -- "The Chinese must go!" -- The Phoenix : [Seattle's great fire] -- Gateway to gold -- Present and future.

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Seattle (Wash.) > History.
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