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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 3 |
| 1861 | 2 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1872 | 2 |
| 1876 | 41 |
| 1877 | 34 |
| 1878 | 22 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 5 |
| 1882 | 7 |
| 1883 | 41 |
| 1884 | 14 |
| 1885 | 25 |
| 1886 | 11 |
| 1887 | 18 |
| 1888 | 18 |
| 1889 | 74 |
| 1890 | 8 |
| 1891 | 54 |
| 1892 | 115 |
| 1893 | 127 |
| 1894 | 130 |
| 1895 | 150 |
| 1897 | 3 |
| 1898 | 8 |
| 1899 | 19 |
| 1900 | 8 |
| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 63 |
| 1904 | 33 |
| 1905 | 7 |
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| 1908 | 28 |
| 1909 | 53 |
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| 1918 | 3 |
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| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
5 stories matching bank
- The Skagit Gold Rush of 1880
A winter of record-breaking snow gives way to a spring of fevered anticipation as prospectors return to the Skagit River's golden banks.
- The Great Thaw: Mountain Snows Turn Every River Into a Rampage
An unusually cool spring held a winter's worth of snow until a few hot days sent it all down at once, flooding the Skagit, Cowlitz and Columbia, drowning farmland and putting Portland under water.
- The Day a Cannon Changed History at the Cascades
Before he was a Civil War legend, Philip Sheridan fended off a regional uprising with a single, deafening shot.
- The Steilacoom Bubble That Burst
A grand, failed railway scheme proves that even the most ambitious 'railroad kings' can't build an empire without a single cent in the bank.
- A Frontier Vendetta Spills onto the Beach
An Indigenous man is shot in a dispute over a death attributed to 'bad Tamanas' or spiritual curses.