English Summary/英文概要： 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 Tacoma, "the City of Destiny," and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington’s history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget’s Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with those who are more obscure but have a special significance: a colorful parade of saloonkeepers, politicians, union organizers, schemers, and swindlers. Morgan begins his account with the landing of Captain Vancouver in Puget Sound in 1792 and ends with the founding of Fort Lewis in 1916, the year the author was born. Between are the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, the boom-and-bust of lumber mills, the anti-Chinese riots of 1885, and more unique Northwest history that will intrigue both new arrivals and longtime residents.

With a new introduction by historian and historic preservationist Michael Sean Sullivan, this redesigned edition of Puget’s Sound brings new life to Morgan’s landmark history of the South Sound and the early days of Tacoma.

Awards/获奖情况： "Murray Morgan wrote about Puget Sound like a man so thrilled to be here he couldn’t resist trying to pinpoint the magic of this place. Well, he came as close as anybody ever has. With Puget’s Sound, he didn’t just chronicle facts. He cobbled together a history bubbling with personalities and moments that take us from George Vancouver eyeballing this wilderness to the evolution of modern Tacoma and southern Puget Sound. Morgan was more than our best historian, he was a genuine living embodiment of the best of what we have to offer―a funny, wise, and optimistic man willing to stick his entire arm into a muddy hole in hopes of a geoduck."―Jim Lynch, author of Truth Like the Sun