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In 1865, Job Carr paddled a canoe to his new homestead on a small harbor that would become Old Tacoma. The area's notorious reputation--as "The Wildest Port North of San Francisco's Barbary Coast"--haunted it for decades after the tall-masted schooners, sailors, brothels, and saloons were gone. Situated on the deepwater shoreline of Commencement Bay to ship timber from the vast tracts surrounding it, "Old Tacoma" was bypassed by the Northern Pacific terminus in favor of "New Tacoma" a few miles away. Settled by waves of Scandinavian and Croatian immigrants to work the mills and purse seiners,...

Everything about New Tacoma in Washington Territory comes as a shock to Hildy Bacom when she and her family move there in 1876. Cows and pigs roam the muddy streets some people live in lean-tos or hollowed-out tree trunks and her first friend Mrs. Money runs a shop with a parrot on her head. Hildy's new life includes a new best friend and a romance plus a lady of the night Indian and lots of Chinese. Over her first year on the frontier Hildy encounters a skunk a bear and a lost Chinese baby. From fires to landslides to the unexpected appearance of her cousin Elsie Hildy's life in a rough...