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With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, "the City of Destiny," and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington's history took place... Read Full Overview

"Morgan's history is an informal epic of adventure and avarice, of courage and venality. . . . Puget's Sound will help to sustain the vitality of the school of thought that believes history is, after all, about people." - The Pacific Historian Columbia Northwest Classics

With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road , Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of southern Puget Sound, where major events of Washington's history took place, and of Tacoma, the area's principal city. Drawing... Read Full Overview