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- The Town That Rebuilt Itself
After the mercantile company abandoned their original townsite, the people of White Bluffs took matters into their own hands to secure a new general store.
- The Political Legacy of 'Dad' Sharp
As a prominent Kittitas County senator falls gravely ill, the region reflects on his long career in territorial and state politics.
- The Sheriff’s Shabby Costume: A Prisoner’s Trick to Escape the Penitentiary
In a bizarre twist of early Washington Territory justice, a sheriff attempted to smuggle a prisoner into the territorial penitentiary by disguising him in shabby clothes. The trick failed, but not before the warden made a memorable quip.
- Will Wallula Become the Next Boomtown?
Walla Walla merchants eye branch stores in Wallula, sparking a regional rivalry over trade and access to the mines.
- The Struggle to Build a Mountain Road
Proponents argue that a completed wagon road through Snoqualmie Pass is vital to break the monopoly hold of railroad companies on Washington Territory.
- The Final Trek of Michael Buckley
A frontier packer and pioneer who survived the rigors of the Idaho mines and the early Walla Walla valley succumbs to double pneumonia.
- The Struggle to Open Snoqualmie Pass
A pioneer successfully demonstrates the feasibility of winter transit, igniting hope for a direct route between Eastern and Western Washington.
- The Drive for a Snoqualmie Wagon Road
A Yakima cattleman campaigns to bridge the Cascades, aiming to turn Seattle into the primary market for Eastern Washington farmers.
- The Jailbreaker’s Bold Escort
After escaping Walla Walla’s jail, George H. Porter and a mysterious posse held up a farmhouse at gunpoint for a fresh horse and supper.
- The Old Indian Fighter Who Taught Himself to Read After Paralysis Took His Limbs
Jim Foley fought in the territory's early Indian wars, logged its woods for thirty years, and spent his last quarter-century as a ward of Snohomish County — where the old campaigner, unable to move, finally learned his letters.
- The Day the River Stopped Running: Kennewick’s Fight to Keep the Columbia Open
When the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway threatened to cut its vital boat service on the Columbia River, local merchants and farmers united in a rare show of civic solidarity to save their lifeline.
- The Shadow of the Railroad King
Walla Walla business leaders face a harsh reality: their local economic destiny is now entirely controlled by E.H. Harriman, the transcontinental rail magnate.
- Forging a Gateway Through the Cascades
A new mountain road promises to replace a 350-mile detour with a direct 120-mile route, finally linking Seattle to the agricultural bounty of Eastern Washington.
- He Kept a Dead Man's Skull as a Souvenir — and the Paper Printed the Story
Writing from North Yakima in 1892, Milburn G. Wills recalls the 1855 volunteer campaign that broke the Yakama resistance — the forced marches, the starving commands, the men shot beside him, and the trophy he carried home.
- Forging a Path Through Snoqualmie Pass
Driven by the hardships of shipping livestock down the Columbia River, local ranchers have hacked a new cattle trail over the Cascades.
- Walla Walla Wheat Takes Sixteen Handlings
A 1879 editorial exposes the 16-step nightmare of shipping grain down the Columbia River, arguing that Seattle’s rail potential would end the monopoly and the waste.
- The Tragedy at Simcoe
An old account resurfaces regarding the 1856 murder of Indian Agent A.J. Bolan, highlighting the volatile tensions of the frontier era.
- Portland Wins the Milwaukee Road—and the Yakima Valley Gets a New Town
A planned extension through the Ahtanum and Klickitat valleys would carry Oriental trade to the Columbia, tap fruit and wheat country, and redraw the map south of North Yakima.
- A Close Call in the Indian Wars
A survivor recounts the harrowing 1856 campaign and a near-death encounter along the banks of the Snake River.
- The Promised Valley: A Land of Promise and Grit
A detailed dispatch from Kittitas County outlines the rapid transformation of the wilderness into a grain-producing powerhouse and the desperate need for rail infrastructure.
- A Miraculous Escape on Puget Sound: Two Steamers Collide Near Steilacoom
The steamer Northerner and a second vessel met suddenly on the water in October 1858, crushing the little steamer’s bow and nearly sending its captain into the Sound.
- The Pioneer Who Built a Territory on Grit
Before Seattle became a titan, early settlers like Col. M.T. Simmons faced the high-handed monopoly of the Hudson’s Bay Company to carve an American life in the Pacific Northwest.
- The Forgotten Hero: Major Granville Haller’s Fight Against Military Perjury
After decades of distinguished service in the Mexican-American and Indian Wars, a decorated officer was summarily stripped of his rank based on a peer’s 'dreamed' accusation of disloyalty.
- The Senator’s Lament: Puget Sound vs. the Columbia River
In 1892, Senator Watson Squire sparred with his colleagues over federal infrastructure spending, arguing that sinking millions into the Columbia River served only Portland while neglecting the burgeoning commercial potential of Puget Sound.
- The Mystery of the Ice-Forming Caves
A scientific inquiry into why midsummer ice forms in the lava tunnels of the Washington wilderness.