Orphan Road : The Railroad Comes to Seattle, 1853-1911

Orphan Road : The Railroad Comes to Seattle, 1853-1911
Author: Kurt E. Armbruster
Publisher: Washington State Univ Press
Description: Paperback - 280 pages (October 1999)
ISBN: 0874221862

Seattle was bitterly disappointed in 1873 when the Northern Pacific selected rival Tacoma as the future Puget Sound terminus for Washington Territory's first transcontinental railroad. Kurt Armbruster's enthralling account describes Seattle's frantic quest for a salt-water terminal of its own on Elliott Bay, and the machinations that developed between the city fathers and the railroad companies. From early territorial times, Seattle aspired to be the Queen City of Puget Sound by tapping into a rich Asian Pacific commerce. A transcontinental rail link to the eastern United States was critical to this scheme.

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