{"title":"Murray Morgan","description":"Murray Morgan (1916-2000), a journalist and historian, was the author of more than twenty books, including the well-loved Skid Road and The Last Wilderness. He worked for Time magazine, the New York Herald Tribune, and CBS News and hosted the early morning radio show \"Our Town, Our World.\" Mary Ann Gwinn writes for the Seattle Times, Booklist, and other publications. She won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1990, was one of three jurors for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, and serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.","products":[{"product_id":"skid-road-an-informal-portrait-of-seattle-paperback","title":"Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSkid Road\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Seattle \"from the bottom up,\" offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City's first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city's history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and railroad industries, the great fire of 1889, the Alaska gold rush, flourishing dens of vice, the 1919 general strike, the 1962 World's Fair, and the stuttering growth of the 1970s and '80s. Through it all, Morgan shows us that Seattle's one constant is change and that its penchant for reinvention has always been fueled by creative, if sometimes unorthodox, residents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Mary Ann Gwinn, this redesigned edition of Murray Morgan's classic work is a must for those interested in how Seattle got to where it is today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365709709535,"sku":"9780295743493","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gmLdUYoe5o9780295743493.webp?v=1789070176"},{"product_id":"the-last-wilderness-a-history-of-the-olympic-peninsula-paperback","title":"The Last Wilderness: A History of the Olympic Peninsula - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurray Morgan's classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness \"as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid adventures of the area's settlers--loggers, hunters, prospectors, homesteaders, utopianists, murderers, profit-seekers, conservationists, Wobblies, and bureaucrats--alongside stories of coastal first peoples and striking descriptions of the peninsula's wildlife and land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreshly redesigned and with a new introduction by poet and environmentalist Tim McNulty, this humor-filled saga and landmark love story of one of the most formidably beautiful regions of the Pacific Northwest will inform and engage a new generation of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365710332127,"sku":"9780295745336","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zrSIiREzWa9780295745336.webp?v=1789070179"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/murray-morgan.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}