Washington Territory
- ISBN-10
- 0874222494
- ISBN-13
- 9780874222494
- Category
- History / United States / General
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Washington State University Press
- Author
- Robert E. Ficken
Description
"Established in 1853, Washington remained a Territory until admitted into the Union thirty-six years later in 1889. Few other territories in the American West languished longer in dependent status. Because of a dividing geographical barrier (the Cascade Range) and the lack of an adequate internal transportation system, Washington Territory made little practical sense as a social and economic entity. Western Washington actually was a satellite of San Francisco and Eastern Washington of Portland, until railroads were completed along the Columbia River and, especially, over the Cascades in the mid-1880s. Essentially, Washington was not qualified for statehood until very late in its territorial period when railway tracks finally unified the region." "Washington Territory is the first comprehensive one-volume history of its type to appear since 1890. It will long serve as the definitive economic and political history of territorial Washington."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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