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David J Jepsen
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Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History
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Unbelonging
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Unbelonging
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“Military spending drove the Pacific Northwest economy, especially Washington State, from before the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941 until after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. For over five decades, the federal government pumped billions of dollars into the “federal Northwest,” creating tens of thousands of jobs and squashing unemployment.”
― Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History
― Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History
“The Northern Pacific resumed construction of its transcontinental line in 1881, finally connecting St. Paul, Minnesota, and Puget Sound in 1883.”
― Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History
― Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History
“Gifford Pinchot, the nation's first director of the U.S. Forest Service, predicted in 1900 that the U.S. would face a “timber famine by 1940.”103”
― Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History
― Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History
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