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| Year | Stories |
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| 1859 | 1 |
| 1882 | 1 |
| 1883 | 2 |
| 1884 | 2 |
| 1885 | 3 |
| 1886 | 1 |
| 1889 | 1 |
| 1890 | 1 |
| 1891 | 5 |
| 1892 | 4 |
| 1893 | 6 |
| 1894 | 5 |
| 1895 | 10 |
| 1903 | 3 |
| 1904 | 2 |
| 1905 | 1 |
| 1909 | 61 |
| 1910 | 1 |
| 1914 | 1 |
| 1916 | 3 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 2 |
10 stories
- Chief Moses Agrees to Relocate
A landmark settlement in Washington Territory promises to open two million acres to settlement.
- The Deadly Slide at Coal Creek
Tragedy strikes a mining camp as a massive snow slide buries cabins and claims lives, leaving families in mourning and survivors in constant fear.
- The Tragic Burial of a Mining Camp
A massive snow slide crashes through the Vallejo mining camp, claiming multiple lives and leaving a community to dig through the frozen rubble.
- A Botched Rescue on the Okanogan Road
A deputy's long ride to arrest a suspected murderer ended in a roadside gunfight, with the prisoner shot dead—apparently by his own son—and the young man still at large.
- Tragedy at the Border
A report from the boundary between Washington Territory and British Columbia details a fatal accident and a local economic failure.
- A Stagecoach Ride Into the Last Paradise of Bunch Grass
A correspondent survives a headfirst plunge into an icy creek to report on the new stage route, the boomtown of Okanogan, and the railroad the Big Bend is begging for.
- The Day Seaton Went Up in Smoke
A devastating fire tore through a Washington sawmill town, proving how quickly the industrial heart of the frontier could vanish.
- Chief Moses Demands His Land—and a Hearing
A Columbia chief says the government cannot take back a reservation just because his people refused to move onto it; the cabinet agrees he has grounds.
- A Boy’s Close Encounter on the Mountainside
A thirteen-year-old boy faced a black bear on a mountain path, leading to a harrowing struggle that left a young rescuer wounded but on the mend.
- The Price of a 'Square Meal' for a Piano Tuner
After recovering from a drinking binge in Oroville, a hungry traveler found himself penniless—and learned the hard way that business owners in 1882 took a dim view of unpaid bills.