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  1. The Peril of the Palouse Trail

    A Spokane County postmaster is left partially paralyzed after a grisly highway accident caused by a horse carcass left rotting on the mountain road.

    Nov 25, 1880The Daily IntelligencerPalouse, Whitman CountyStrange But True

  2. The Practical Joke of the Frontier

    A settler’s terrifying encounter with two armed Indigenous men concludes not with the massacre he feared, but with a surreal—and expensive—demanding of his household supplies.

    Mar 24, 1877The Daily IntelligencerLewiston, Whitman CountyExclusion & Resistance · Strange But True

  3. The Giant of Wawawai

    A crew grading a road near the Snake River unearths the remains of a man estimated to be thirty feet tall.

    Aug 7, 1878The Daily IntelligencerWawawai, Whitman CountyStrange But True

  4. The Boomtown Delusion of 1880

    A newly minted Eastern Washington town predicts it will hit 20,000 residents in a decade—the original Seattle-area land speculation fever dream.

    Nov 10, 1880The Daily IntelligencerWhitman CountyBoom & Bust

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