Robert E. Ficken
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 312
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Established in 1853, Washington remained a territory for thirty-six years until admitted into the union in 1889. Divided by the Cascade Range and lacking an effective internal transportation system, Washington Territory made no practical sense as a political and economic entity until railroads finally unified the region in the mid-1880s. Ficken has written the definitive economic and political history of territorial Washington.