author

Loan and Trust Company Oakland Land

A corporate author rather than a single writer, this name is attached to a vivid booster-era portrait of Tacoma in the late nineteenth century. The work reads like a blend of local history, civic sales pitch, and snapshot of a fast-growing Pacific Northwest city.

1 Audiobook

Tacoma and Vicinity

Tacoma and Vicinity

by Loan and Trust Company Oakland Land

About the author

Project Gutenberg lists this author as Oakland Land, Loan and Trust Company, the credited creator of Tacoma and Vicinity. The book presents Tacoma, Washington, as a rising commercial and industrial center, with strong attention to rail links, business growth, streets, utilities, and the region's natural advantages.

The writing suggests the perspective of a land and finance company promoting opportunity as much as documenting place. That makes the book especially interesting today: it is not just a history of Tacoma, but also a window into the optimistic, investment-driven language of urban expansion in the American West.

Because the credited author appears to be a company rather than an identifiable individual, reliable biographical details are limited. In this case, the most useful "about the author" note is really about the institution behind the text and the promotional world it came from.