01025cam a2200193 4500 513457230 TxAuBib 20121212120000.0 121212|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib Evison, Jonathan. West of Here. First ed. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2011. 480 p. Since the dawn of recorded history, the Klailam Indians have thrived upon the bounty of the Elwha River. In 1889, on the eve of Washington's statehood, the Olympic Peninsula remains America's last frontier. But not for long. As northwestern expansion reaches its feverish crescendo, the clock if ticking. West of Here contains a colorful cast of characters and chronicles the life of one small town, turning America's history into myth, and the myth into a nation's shared experience. 20121212. Washington (State)--Fiction, American Indians--Fiction.