Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Two Brothers
Chapter 2. Politics and the Law
Chapter 3. A New Start
Chapter 4. Birth of the Puyallup Valley Hop Industry
Chapter 5. Suddenly Wealthy
Chapter 6. Building a Town
Chapter 7. The Feud
Chapter 8. The Hop King
Chapter 9. The London Hop Trade
Chapter 10. Diversification
Chapter 11. The Chinese Expulsion
Chapter 12. The American Exhibition at New Orleans
Chapter 13. Second Trip to England
Chapter 14. Meeker for Congress
Chapter 15. Farm and Home
Chapter 16. A Woman's Right to Vote
Chapter 17. Society News and Real Estate
Chapter 18. Mayor Meeker
Chapter 19. The Frank Meeker Story
Chapter 20. Hop Lice
Chapter 21. Traveling Man
Chapter 22. The Siege of Puyallup
Chapter 23. Beginning of the End
Chapter 24. Financial Troubles
Chapter 25. The Fourth Trip to England
Afterward
A Short History of Beer
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

An independent historian and former social studies teacher, Dennis Larsen has written for historical journals and is author/co-author of four other books. He speaks frequently on the Oregon Trail, Northwest pioneers, and of course, Ezra Meeker.

Reviews

"Hop King sheds light on one of the most colorful and accomplished men from the early days of the Washington Territory."--Pacific Northwest Inlander

"Meeker was a 19th century man, but his life story is completely contemporary for business in the early 21st."--Tacoma News Tribune

"Meeker was like the Evergreen State's Forrest Gump--seemingly a part of every big moment in our early history."--Pacific Northwest Inlander

"There are many more stories to tell, but the account of [Meeker's] boom years is one of the best."--Columbia: The Magazine of Western History

"With Hop King, you get a lot more than a blow-by-blow history of how hop fields came to the state, although you get that, too."--Pacific Northwest Inlander

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