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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 9 |
| 1858 | 6 |
| 1859 | 4 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 15 |
| 1862 | 5 |
| 1863 | 3 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1872 | 8 |
| 1876 | 90 |
| 1877 | 77 |
| 1878 | 87 |
| 1879 | 6 |
| 1880 | 18 |
| 1882 | 17 |
| 1883 | 135 |
| 1884 | 55 |
| 1885 | 78 |
| 1886 | 42 |
| 1887 | 38 |
| 1888 | 61 |
| 1889 | 110 |
| 1890 | 30 |
| 1891 | 107 |
| 1892 | 251 |
| 1893 | 188 |
| 1894 | 159 |
| 1895 | 224 |
| 1897 | 7 |
| 1898 | 21 |
| 1899 | 38 |
| 1900 | 10 |
| 1902 | 3 |
| 1903 | 103 |
| 1904 | 45 |
| 1905 | 12 |
| 1907 | 10 |
| 1908 | 66 |
| 1909 | 104 |
| 1910 | 39 |
| 1911 | 3 |
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1914 | 18 |
| 1915 | 28 |
| 1916 | 54 |
| 1917 | 18 |
| 1918 | 2 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 11 |
| 1924 | 17 |
| 1925 | 3 |
| 1928 | 1 |
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- Gold Fever Reaches Steilacoom by Schooner
A Saturday arrival brings word of gold at Fort Yale, a turn-by-turn route up the Fraser River, and a miner's warning that provisions are very high.
- 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.
- A Miraculous Escape on Puget Sound: Two Steamers Collide Near Steilacoom
The steamer Northerner and a second vessel met suddenly on the water in October 1858, crushing the little steamer’s bow and nearly sending its captain into the Sound.
- Gold Fever Lands at Bellingham Bay
Mail-steamer dispatches report 1,400 argonauts bound for the new mines, Victoria land prices climbing to a 'dizzy elevation,' and rumors of a fresh townsite at Semiahmoo Bay.
- 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.
- The Winter War Blueprint: An 1858 Campaign to Subdue the Tribes
A field letter from the Indian war in Oregon and Washington urges the Army to occupy the Colville Valley, cut off Indigenous trade, and expel missionaries and Hudson’s Bay Company employees.