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A newly unearthed cannonball recalls a bloody 19th-century massacre between Hudson’s Bay Company traders and local Indigenous tribes.
“I met the Indians at the Okanogan and buried 113 on the spot where they fell. Those that were not buried floated down the river.”
A shallow-draft vessel launches on the upper Okanogan River, ending the reliance on primitive ox-team freight haulage.
“For ten months of the year that river is navigable for boats of very light draught only, and the Enterprise was built with this end in view.”
Brewster residents are lobbying against a new government-backed townsite, citing the history of failed settlements in the valley.
“Within the memory of present residents of the county parties with a keen eye for the nimble dollar laid out the town of Swansea and sold lots all over the country.”
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