Last Wilderness

Murray Morgans 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."e;Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid adventures of the areas settlersloggers, hunters, prospectors, homesteaders, utopianists, murderers, profit-seekers, conservationists, Wobblies, and bureaucratsalongside stories of coastal first peoples and striking descriptions of the peninsulas wildlife and land.Freshly 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.