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  1. Zoe Gayton Bets the World She Can Walk It — Then Cheats at the First Tunnel

    A week out of Seattle on her round-the-world wager, the pedestrian record-breaker was told she could not walk the two miles of the Northern Pacific's Stampede Tunnel. A locomotive pulled up. Everybody swore secrecy. A newspaper man heard anyway.

    Jun 21, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSouth Prairie, Pierce CountyLocal Legends · Strange But True

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