Author: HYNDING, ALAN
Title: The Public Life of Eugene Semple Promoter and Politician of the Pacific Northwest
Description: Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustration; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with a 5 line inscription, on the reverse of the front endpaper. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has a couple of small edge nicks to the bottom of the rear panel. "President Grover Cleveland appointed Semple as the Governor of Washington Territory in 1887, where he served for one term until April 1889. After Washington became a state in November of that year, Semple ran as the Democratic candidate to be the first Governor of the State of Washington, however he lost to the Republican Elisha P. Ferry. In 1893, he successfully pushed a bill through the Washington State legislature to facilitate a means of financing privately owned canals by allowing them to sell reclaimed tidelands. With $500,000 of financing, he himself soon attempted such a canal connecting Elliott Bay to Lake Washington by cutting through Seattle's Beacon Hill: a more southerly route than the Lake Washington Ship Canal that was favored by Judge Thomas Burke and others aligned with the Great Northern Railway, and which was ultimately built. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Western Americana Alan Hynding Eugene Semple Washington State Washington Territory Politics Governors
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Title: The Public Life of Eugene Semple Promoter and Politician of the Pacific Northwest
Description: Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustration; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with a 5 line inscription, on the reverse of the front endpaper. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has a couple of small edge nicks to the bottom of the rear panel. "President Grover Cleveland appointed Semple as the Governor of Washington Territory in 1887, where he served for one term until April 1889. After Washington became a state in November of that year, Semple ran as the Democratic candidate to be the first Governor of the State of Washington, however he lost to the Republican Elisha P. Ferry. In 1893, he successfully pushed a bill through the Washington State legislature to facilitate a means of financing privately owned canals by allowing them to sell reclaimed tidelands. With $500,000 of financing, he himself soon attempted such a canal connecting Elliott Bay to Lake Washington by cutting through Seattle's Beacon Hill: a more southerly route than the Lake Washington Ship Canal that was favored by Judge Thomas Burke and others aligned with the Great Northern Railway, and which was ultimately built. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Western Americana Alan Hynding Eugene Semple Washington State Washington Territory Politics Governors
Price: US$ 40.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45617
- Book number: 45617
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