On the eve of Washington’s statehood in 1889, the Olympic Peninsula remains America’s last frontier. But not for long. At the foot of the Elwha River, the crude and muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a raging band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. Spanning more than a hundred years, from the ragged mudflats of a belching and bawdy frontier to the rusting remains of a strip-mall cornucopia, West of Here chronicles the life of one small town. It’s a saga of destiny and greed, adventure and passion, hope and hilarity, that turns America’s history into myth and myth into a nation’s shared experience.