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Twisted Tour Guide: Bainbridge Island and Olympic Peninsula
Paperback
Series: Twisted Tour Guides, Book 24
Regional: Pacific NorthwestTrue CrimeWest
Publisher: Marques Vickers
Published: Apr 22 2026
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Evade the Tourist Herds and Enter Into An Insider's Bainbridge Island and Olympic Peninsula.
Renowned and unknown history, hidden delights and fascinating stories pervade the history of the Peninsula. This kaleidoscope of discovery, architecture, personalities, egos, scandals, conflict, are surrounded by sheer natural beauty creating a vivid tapestry defining over nearly two centuries. This guide transports you geographically and photographically to the precise famous and infamous locations where history occurred. The scenes may sometimes appear ordinary, weird, but often illuminate the physical background and descriptions behind events. Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true.
This Twisted Tour Guide is your alternative to conventional travel. It accommodates the restless visitor, tourist and resident seeking a unique and different perspective to traditional tourism. Olympic Peninsula remains one of the most naturally stunning, beguiling, historic and fascinating regions within the United States. Welcome to one on the most useful, eclectic and enlightening introductions.
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND:
Port Blakely Harbor Park, Dead Man's Island Hanging, Kane Pioneer Cemetery, Steamship Eagle Explosion, Fort Ward Park, Fay Bainbridge Park, Agate Pass Bridge, Bloedel Reserve, Haunting Drug Deal Murder, Znetix Stock Fraud, Hawley Cove Park, Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, Sacred Stone Labyrinth & Hobbit House
PORT TOWNSEND:
Captain Vancouver's Naming Designation, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Custom House Rivalry, Controversial Customs House Director Victor Smith, Union Wharf, Joseph Nuana's Execution, Point Wilson Lighthouse, Clapp Building, Waterman & Katz Building, Frontier Lynching Over A Steer, Eisenbeis Cracker Factory, Historic Red-Light District, Mount Baker Block Building, Miller and Burkett Building, Ann Starrett House, Fowler & Caines Building, George Sterming Building, Pioneer Building, James & Hastings Building, Nathaniel Davis Hill Building, Palace of Sweets Hotel, Historic Bell Tower Park, Hastings Building, Bishop Hotel, Max Levy: King of the Crimpers, Terry Building, Manresa Castle, Port Townsend's Godfather, Kuhn Building, Tree of Heaven Mural, Jefferson County Courthouse, Odd Fellows Hall, Fort Worden, Uptown Port Townsend, Haller Fountain, Rose Theatre, Old Consulate Inn, Swan Hotel, Carnegie Library, First American National Bank Building, Kelly Art Deco Light Museum, Filming An Officer and A Gentleman, Dimick Lighthouse, Trinity United Methodist, & Welcome Totem Pole
SEQUIM:
Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge, Discovery of Mastodon Skeleton, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe Community Center, Patrick Drum's Killing Crusade & Teri Ward's Murder
PORT ANGELES:
Tse-Whit-Zen Village Excavation Project, Second Nation's Capital, Utopia Cooperative Colony, Charles Wood House, George Venable Smith House, Zig Zag Trail, Laurel Street Stairs, Family Shoe Store, Underground Passageways, Clallam County Courthouse, Lincoln Theatre, Masonic Temple, Carnegie Library, Fire Hall Building, Elwha Theatre, Rayonier Steam Locomotive #4, Waterfront Promenade, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Norman Boullion's Remains Discovery, Bella Italia Restaurant, Dr. Bruce Rowan, Sister City Friendship Bridge, Master Woodcarver George Cecil David's Murder, Oil Spill Along Ediz Hook and Neighborhood Bulldozer Rampage
MISCELLANEOUS OLYMPIC PENINSULA:
Cape Flattery, Rialto Beach, Chimacum Tribe Eradication, Point No Point Park and Lighthouse, Battle of Port Gamble, Chief Seattle Burial, Defunct Puget Sound Iron Company, Chief Jacob Wahalchu, Camp Hayden, City of Port Gamble, Hood Canal Floating Bridge, Shi Shi Beach and Twilight Series
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