Untamed Olympics: The Story of a Peninsula
by Ruby El Hult
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"The Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington is one of the wildest, strangest, most fascinating regions in America. Man's struggle to tame it has been brutal and dramatic, selfish and heroic; but, above all, constant. To challenge his greed is the fabulous wealth of its vast timber lands; to stir his ideals is the white-jagged splendor of its great mountain range. The Untamed Olympics tells the amazing story of this Peninsula in a series of vivid, swiftly-paced scenes..." -- Book flap.Tags
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- 1954
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Sports and Leisure
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- 979.7 — History & geography History of North America Great Basin and Pacific Slope region of United States Washington
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- F897 .O5 .H8 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Washington
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