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| Year | Stories |
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| 1861 | 1 |
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| 1877 | 1 |
| 1878 | 1 |
| 1883 | 1 |
| 1884 | 1 |
| 1885 | 7 |
| 1886 | 1 |
| 1887 | 5 |
| 1889 | 4 |
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| 1892 | 7 |
| 1893 | 12 |
| 1894 | 10 |
| 1895 | 7 |
| 1898 | 1 |
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| 1917 | 1 |
4 stories
- The Unsolved Execution at Green River
A lonely homesteader is found dead in the woods, his cabin undisturbed and his secrets kept, sparking a flurry of local suspicion.
- The Tragic Confinement of Madia Joy
A ten-year-old girl is committed to an insane asylum after suffering from a paranoid delusion that her own family was trying to kill her.
- The Tragedy of the Missing Mill Worker
A husband and father vanishes into the woods, leaving his family behind as the town whispers of a dark insurance scheme.
- The Great Seattle Hop Rush of 1889
As harvest season peaks in the shadow of the Great Seattle Fire, a local firm attempts to manage the precarious trade of Washington hops to the London market.