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Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound

by: Justin Wadland

Publisher: oregon state university Press (2014)

$19.95

This is a great little history of one of the many utopian communities founded on Puget Sound in the early 1900s. While some mysteries are left mysterious, there are many lessons to be learned from this attempt at a better world.