Aaron Goings

The Port of Missing Men (eBook, ePUB)

Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling biography of the Ghoul of Grays Harbor

In the early twentieth century so many dead bodies surfaced in the rivers around Aberdeen, Washington, that they were nicknamed the floater fleet. When Billy Gohl (18731927), a powerful union official, was arrested for murder, local newspapers were quick to suggest that he was responsible for many of those deaths, perhaps even dozensthus launching the legend of the Ghoul of Grays Harbor.

More than a true-crime tale, The Port of Missing Men sheds light on the lives of workers who died tragically, illuminating the dehumanizing treatment of sailors and lumber workers and the heated clashes between pro- and anti-union forces. Goings investigates the creation of the myth, exploring how so many people were willing to believe such extraordinary stories about Gohl. He shares the story of a charismatic labor leaderthe one man who could shut down the highly profitable Grays Harbor lumber tradeand provides an equally intriguing analysis of the human costs of the Pacific Northwest's early extraction economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295747422
• Artikelnr.: 59755334

Autorenporträt

Aaron Goings is professor of history at Peninsula College. He is author of The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest (University of Washington Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Sally and Ken Owens book award from the Western History Association for best book on the history of the Pacific West. He is coauthor of The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington (Oregon State University Press. 2019) and Community in Conflict: A Working-Class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy (Michigan State University Press, 2013).