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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 2 |
| 1859 | 7 |
| 1860 | 4 |
| 1861 | 12 |
| 1862 | 8 |
| 1863 | 3 |
| 1864 | 5 |
| 1872 | 16 |
| 1876 | 107 |
| 1877 | 72 |
| 1878 | 44 |
| 1879 | 4 |
| 1880 | 13 |
| 1882 | 20 |
| 1883 | 84 |
| 1884 | 43 |
| 1885 | 91 |
| 1886 | 48 |
| 1887 | 54 |
| 1888 | 55 |
| 1889 | 131 |
| 1890 | 18 |
| 1891 | 116 |
| 1892 | 251 |
| 1893 | 218 |
| 1894 | 230 |
| 1895 | 213 |
| 1897 | 12 |
| 1898 | 33 |
| 1899 | 48 |
| 1900 | 9 |
| 1902 | 8 |
| 1903 | 116 |
| 1904 | 84 |
| 1905 | 7 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 20 |
| 1909 | 97 |
| 1910 | 34 |
| 1911 | 13 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1914 | 16 |
| 1915 | 14 |
| 1916 | 35 |
| 1917 | 25 |
| 1918 | 4 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 11 |
| 1924 | 4 |
| 1925 | 7 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 3 |
7 stories matching find
- The Widow’s Pig-Feeding Innovation
A resourceful widow in Steilacoom finds a way to feed her livestock using garden weeds and a boiler, turning a chore into a sustainable practice.
- The Steilacoom Gold Rush Fever
Reports from Colville suggest a new mining boom is drawing men away from the territory's established industries.
- A Gold Rush Romance in the Shadow of the Mines
In the rugged camps of the 1859 gold rush, a pair of lovers find their devotion tested by the harsh realities of frontier life and the relentless pursuit of fortune.
- A Boomtown Year: Steilacoom Runs Out of Empty Houses
In its first-anniversary survey of Puget Sound, the Herald finds every vacant building in Steilacoom filled — and thirty new ones thrown up in eight months.
- The Night Seattle Danced Until Two: A Steamer Excursion from Steilacoom
In July 1859, the steamer Julia carried Olympia and Steilacoom society across the Sound to Seattle, where three supper tables and a hall full of dancers made territorial news.
- The Volunteers Were Paid Twice—Sometimes Thrice—For the Same War
A federal commission auditing the 1855–56 Indian War muster rolls finds men drawing captain's, wagon-master's and private's pay all at once—including a Nisqually ferry keeper who billed the government for the same ten ferrymen he never properly mustered in.
- ‘Rule or Ruin’: A Territorial Lawmaker Turns on Governor Stevens
Confined to his room with a cold, a member of the Washington Territorial Legislature answers his critics — defending his right to name the governor's unpopular appointees and accusing a ruling clique of trying to shut the rest of the territory up.