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- 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 Political Brawl for Olympia
A sordid, public feud between federal officials in Washington Territory spills into the press as appointments turn personal and properties are seized.
- A Clerk’s Error Won Seattle an Army Post
A mix-up in the civil appropriation bill let the Secretary of War skip a site board and choose Magnolia Bluffs—giving Seattle a federal payroll and a decisive win over Tacoma.
- The Pacific Coast Mourns a Fallen Hero
General Lander's death, linked to his mortal wound at Ball's Bluff, stirs deep regret across the Pacific Northwest.
- Organizing the Industrial Army in Centralia
A local organizer makes progress recruiting for the Industrial Army despite local mockery.
- Major W. W. Miller’s Wartime Appointment
Local Democrat and loyal Union man W. W. Miller secures a commission as Quartermaster in the volunteer service.
- The March on Washington
Seattle’s contingent of the Industrial Army prepares to depart for Washington D.C. by train, complete with yellow paper, drill squads, and a parade.
- Seattle's Chinese New Year: Fireworks, Debt Settling, and a Tartar Emperor
Local Chinese merchants celebrate the new year with fireworks and a week of festivities, while manager Woo Gen voices his opposition to the ruling Tartar dynasty.
- Brutal Assault on Indigenous Woman Reported
An Indian woman, identified as Mrs. J'ouls, suffered a fractured skull during a violent attack near the Puyallup reservation.
- Seattle Offers a Bluff to Win the Army's Guns
Gen. Otis wants a garrison on Magnolia Bluff to guard Puget Sound — but the land the government thought it already owned has been quietly claimed out from under it, and Fort Townsend is running dry.
- A Lawyer Stood Up in Court and Accused the Jury of Being in the Company's Pocket
In a $25,000 Seattle injury suit, attorney James Hamilton Lewis turned his closing argument into a public warning about corporate influence—and left the courtroom seething.
- Army Deployed Against Railroad Developers on Puyallup Land
Federal troops are dispatched to the Puyallup Reservation to physically stop a construction party from grading a railroad through Indigenous land.
- The Con Man Who Conned a Town
Before he was caught, a master swindler known as 'Gen. Ward' charmed the elite of Spokane Falls and eloped with a banker's daughter.
- Showdown on the Puyallup Reservation
Federal troops arrive to halt a railroad construction project, igniting a fight over Indigenous sovereignty and citizen rights.
- The Whisky Trial That Ended With an Empty Chair
Charles Burns was on trial in Port Townsend for selling liquor to Indians. When the evidence tied his whisky to a Native man's suicide, Burns skipped bail and vanished.
- Steilacoom Empties Its Garrison for a Near-War on San Juan Island
On Aug. 9, 1859, soldiers and two brass cannon left Steilacoom aboard the steamer Julia to reinforce Capt. Pickett’s tiny command, as the U.S. and Britain edged toward war over a boundary and a pig.
- Defiance of the Chinese Exclusion Act
Local Chinese leaders organize to resist a federal registration mandate, warning of a potential 'wholesale deportation.'
- Olympia Organizes Aid for Civil War Wounded
Prominent citizens gather to create a territorial support network for Union soldiers.
- The General and the Coxeyite March
Major-General Nelson A. Miles visits Seattle's Rainier Club and scoffs at the 'Coxey Movement' of unemployed workers marching on Washington D.C.
- A Pension for the Men Who Fought the 1855–56 'Indian War'
A Vancouver man leads a campaign to pension surviving white volunteers of the Inland Northwest's 1855–56 war, a conflict the article ties to the Stevens County gold rush and Indigenous dispossession.
- The Empire of the Pacific
Senator Watson C. Squire argues that Puget Sound is a defenseless frontier, vulnerable to the British naval presence at Esquimalt.
- Fort Walla Walla's Long Fight Against Abandonment
A historical look at the community's desperate efforts to preserve the military reservation as a public asset.
- The Desert That Wasn't: A Lesson in Eastern Bias
When visiting journalists labeled the Columbia Basin a 'desolation,' a local farmer proved them wrong with a bounty of fruit and grain.
- The Call for Cavalry
Military authorities look to volunteers to secure the frontier as federal forces withdraw from the Pacific Northwest.
- The Struggle for the Puyallup Reservation
A legal war unfolds over railroad rights-of-way through the Puyallup Reservation, pitting federal troops against private developers as Indigenous residents face displacement.