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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 4 |
| 1858 | 8 |
| 1859 | 5 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 9 |
| 1863 | 11 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 16 |
| 1876 | 90 |
| 1877 | 59 |
| 1878 | 59 |
| 1879 | 3 |
| 1880 | 18 |
| 1882 | 17 |
| 1883 | 68 |
| 1884 | 36 |
| 1885 | 62 |
| 1886 | 31 |
| 1887 | 26 |
| 1888 | 57 |
| 1889 | 100 |
| 1890 | 20 |
| 1891 | 79 |
| 1892 | 118 |
| 1893 | 69 |
| 1894 | 94 |
| 1895 | 123 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 8 |
| 1898 | 15 |
| 1899 | 30 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 3 |
| 1903 | 66 |
| 1904 | 41 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 19 |
| 1909 | 48 |
| 1910 | 16 |
| 1911 | 16 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1914 | 18 |
| 1915 | 9 |
| 1916 | 24 |
| 1917 | 13 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1924 | 6 |
| 1925 | 3 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 3 |
8 stories matching hundr
- Gold in the Wenatchee—and a War Warning at Fort Simcoe
A hard-riding express reaches Steilacoom with word of 300 miners in the new Wenatchee and Naches diggings—and a settler's letter warning of a wider Indigenous war over the invasion.
- Gold Fever Empties Puget Sound
A schooner captain confirms rich strikes on the Fraser and Thompson rivers—and hundreds of workers are already leaving Victoria and the Sound for the mines.
- A Gold Rush Tide Swells Through Steilacoom
Miners from Oregon and the Columbia are streaming through town bound for the Fraser River, buying supplies and predicting thousands more.
- Col. Wright's Column Drives Spokane Fighters Across the Plains
An 1858 campaign report describes a running fight on the Spokane Plains—and the violent logic of dispossession behind it.
- The Night a Soldier Robbed the Editor's House
While the Puget Sound Herald's proprietor and his wife were away, a soldier slipped into their home—then walked back through the kitchen into the sitting room.
- The Vultures on Steilacoom's Streets
A furious 1858 editorial accuses local authorities of letting California gamblers plunder the town in plain sight.
- Gold Fever Empties the Army Posts—and Leaves Steilacoom’s Mail in a Canoe
A steamer from the north brings word of rich surface diggings on the Fraser and Thompson rivers, soldiers deserting lower Puget Sound posts, and Steilacoom cut off from its mail.
- The Steamer Traveler Goes Down Off Foulweather Bluff
A sudden leak in a winter gale drowned Captain Slater and several others on a routine Puget Sound run from Port Townsend to Port Gamble.