Now with a new design and updated content including three brandnew chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author. An anythingbutdry history textbook in a takeitwithyou package Washingtons History is a fascinating walk through the sweeping story of a place and its people. For centuries the natural beauty and riches of the Northwest have excited the human imagination from its first peoples to seafaring explorers to westwardthinking pioneers to technological thinkers and giants. A Washington resident himself author Harry Ritter offers fiftyfive vignettes illustrated with rare archival photographs that comprise an entertaining and informative picture of life in the Far Northwest. Learn about the Natives explorers traders missionaries loggers farmers inventors and politicians. From Chief Seattle to Dr. John McLoughlin William E. Boeing Henry M. Scoop Jackson Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos these are the people at the epicenter of events that shaped the Evergreen State.