Captain Burns
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- Oct 19, 1876The Race That Beat the Sea: How a Local Yacht Outpaced the CoastCaptain Burns’ Pacific coaster claims victory in a thrilling seven-round duel against the Dashing Wave, proving that beating to windward is what truly tells.Port Ludlow, WA
- Aug 9, 1883‘You Are Hanging an Innocent Man’: A Condemned Killer’s Last Words Before 4,000 WitnessesEzra Snoderly, one of the Cummins murderers, is hanged in Dayton’s courthouse square — insisting to the very end that he dies for another man’s crime, while the crowd judges him ‘game.’Dayton, WA
- Jun 26, 1889The Price of a City’s Future: Yesler’s CornerA single landowner held Seattle’s urban development hostage, forcing the city council to choose between private property rights and the public good.Commercial Street, Seattle, WA