Close-up, a city's faults cannot be missed. But a skyline is the truer essence of a city. A sprawling city with few dramatic spires means little to me. A city which every now and then thrusts ever higher toward the sky is a city of spirit and one determined to grow, to stand tall among other cities of the world.Seattle is such a city .... Seattle's past is a brief one, beginning in 1851. This means that the skyline you see today is a hundred and...

This story is set against a dramatic background of historical events, the struggle between the newly United States and the British for the gigantic territories of the North West.