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Old newspapers, pinned to the places they wrote about — the streets you can still walk today.
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A logger returns home after a week of work to find his wife dead in a two-foot deep spring and his three children alone in the snow.
“Her three children, the oldest only 9 years of age, attempted to pull her out, but could not.”
An early eyewitness account of the Columbia River’s delicate ecosystem and the struggle to protect a vanishing resource from industrial overfishing.
“The time is fast coming when they will have to take some action or quit fishing.”
A severe freshet destroys dams, bridges, and farmland, leaving the local rural community with thousands of dollars in damage.
“The usually quiet stream was transformed into a boiling, seething mass of muddy water, rushing madly onward.”
With logs growing scarce, mill men near Cathlamet planned a railroad and a mile-long timber chute down a 700-foot bluff.
“The amount of lumber manufactured in this section has caused a scarcity of the raw material at all points easy of access.”
A massive cougar that plagued local settlers with livestock raids finally meets its end through a cunning trap.
“He was a monster and measured eight feet two inches from tip to tip and stood two feet ten inches tall.”
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