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Frontier Boosters: Port Townsend and the Culture of Development in the American West, 1850-1895

Frontier Boosters: Port Townsend and the Culture of Development in the American West, 1850-1895

Naylor, Elaine

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryRegional: Pacific Northwest

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ISBN10: 0773543678
ISBN13: 9780773543676
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: May 1 2014
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Frontier Boosters is a compelling social history of urbanization and economic development in the nineteenth-century American West. Focusing on Port Townsend, Washington and the surrounding Puget Sound region, Elaine Naylor examines economic development, boosterism, and the dynamics of class and race in frontier settlement.

In the late-nineteenth century, Seattle had not yet fully emerged as the premier city of the Pacific Northwest, and the residents of Port Townsend had every reason to imagine their town - located at the entrance to Puget Sound, the waterway for the timber resources that drove Washington's frontier economy - as the region's burgeoning metropolis. Naylor argues that the promotion of local economic development, defined as boosterism and commonly linked with land speculators, investors, and businessmen, was in fact embraced by ordinary frontier citizens. As such a booster mentality became integrated into Port Townsend's social dynamics, shaping the town's class and race relations, specifically between its Euro-American, Native American, and Chinese communities.

Frontier Boosters illuminates the importance of economic development to ordinary settlers and highlights the complex interrelationship between the social dynamics of class and race within the context of the American frontier.

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