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"The Pacific Northwest's classic confrontation between militants
demanding ambiguous change and an establishment intransigently
defending the status quo occurred on Sunday, November 5, 1916. To
this day no one knows who shot first, nor even how many died, but
thanks to Mill Town, we have at last a charting of the forces,
economic and personal, that led to the tragedy."-Murray Morgan
On the event of its publication in 1965, Murray Morgan wrote, The
Dry Years, which might be subtitled ‘The Fall and Rise of John
Barleycorn,’ is a delightful blend of scholarship, narrative
exposition and wit. ...Clark is knowing and acid about alcohol as a
class problem. he points out that the drys were usually led by
upperclass types whose peers would derive benefit by better habits
in the working class. He does not, however, fall into the trap of
attributing the attitudes of the reformers to hypocrisy. The drys
were awash with sincerity. ...It is one of the many merits of this
delightful book that Norman Clark does not rub our noses in the
fact that though times change, problems remain. In this
substantially updated edition of the classic story of a region’s
experience with Prohibition, Norman Clark reviews to the present
the political history of liquor control in Washington State, and
issue taken seriously in the state and the nation as those of black
slavery, wage slavery, and child welfare. He traces the effect of
social change upon liquor morality through nearly two hundred years
of efforts to make the use of alcohol compatible with the American
view of social progress.
In 1849 James Swan turned his back on his wife and two children, a
prosperous ship-fitting business, and the polite and predictable
world of commerce in Boston and fled to the newly opened gold
fields in California. Soon sick of the bonanza society, he
emigrated to a shallow harbor called Shoalwater Bay (now Willapa
Bay) north of the Columbia River in Washington Territory. Swan
eagerly became a part of the frontier community, enjoying the
company of both the white settlers and friendly Indians in the
area. First published in 1857, his classic account of the western
frontier remains fresh and timely for the modern reader. Swan saw
himself as both an observer and participant in a barbaric invasion.
His interest in the Indians and his acceptance of them as
individuals of importance and integrity emerge clearly in a lively
and informed narrative.
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