Puget’s Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound

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 Washingtons history took place and of Tacoma the areas principal city. Drawing upon the original journals and reports Morgan tells his story largely in terms of individuals interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with those who are more obscure but who have a special significance. Journalist and historian Murray Morgan (1916-2000) was the author of more than twenty books including “Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle” and “The Last Wilderness”. He worked for “Time” magazine the “New York Herald Tribune” and CBS News before returning to Washington where he taught at Tacoma Community College and for fifteen years hosted the early morning radio show Our Town Our World.