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Free Download Grays Harbor: 1885-1913 by Robert A. Weinstein
English | ISBN: 0140048901 | 190 pages | PDF | 1978 | 34 Mb
In the 1890s Grays Harbor-a chink in the forbidding Pacific Northwest coastline-was an undeveloped, rugged wilderness. There, each year, slate-colored skies poured down more than a hundred inches of rain upon a scene of mammoth trees, of waters teeming with fish, of hills and valleys bristling with primeval life. For the vigorous pioneers who migrated to this isolated, sea-fronted area of southwest Washington, life was tough and turbulent. By the end of the century, the endurance, courage, and hard labor of the eager settlers-homesteaders, loggers, mill hands, small businessmen, sailors, prostitutes-had transformed Grays Harbor country into a major logging and shipbuilding center, a famous seaport, and a sailor's haven lurid enough to rival San Francisco's Barbary Coast.