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| Year | Stories |
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| 1861 | 5 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1876 | 2 |
| 1877 | 3 |
| 1878 | 1 |
| 1880 | 1 |
| 1882 | 2 |
| 1883 | 3 |
| 1885 | 8 |
| 1886 | 1 |
| 1887 | 2 |
| 1889 | 1 |
| 1891 | 3 |
| 1892 | 2 |
| 1893 | 1 |
| 1894 | 8 |
| 1895 | 6 |
2 stories
- The Ghostly Harvest of the North Pacific
A brutal accounting of how 19th-century pelagic sealers, operating out of Washington ports, pushed a species to the brink of extinction through industrial-scale slaughter.
- The Great Whale Hunt at Neah Bay
Seventeen canoes descend on a leviathan, turning a tribal bounty into a winter food supply.