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3 stories matching tame

Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:tamer, tam, tamp, taman, tambl, tampa

  1. The River Viking: Amos Burg’s Treacherous Canoe Trip

    A young adventurer navigates the Columbia’s most lethal rapids in a 17-foot canoe, documenting the wild river before it is tamed.

    Dec 12, 1924White Bluffs SpokesmanPriest Rapids, White Bluffs, Kittitas CountyStrange But True

  2. The Salmon Elevator: How Science Aims to Tame the Columbia

    A new basket-based mechanical lift promises to move migrating salmon over high dams, challenging the limitations of traditional fish ladders.

    Dec 12, 1924White Bluffs SpokesmanPriest Rapids Dam, Mattawa, Grant CountyFollow the Money · Strange But True

  3. A Chinese Student's 1929 Speech Named the Racism Washington Tried to Forget

    At the University of Washington's Cosmopolitan Club, Wesley Kai Hwa Kwang catalogued a century of anti-Chinese violence — including the 1885 killings in Squak Valley and the burning of Tacoma's Chinatown — and asked a white audience to account for it.

    Dec 15, 1928Filipino ForumSeattle, King CountyExclusion & Resistance

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