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31 stories matching typic
- The First Wedding in Seattle, Replayed 42 Years Later
David T. Denny and Louisa Denny marked their 42nd anniversary at Decatur Terrace with pioneer friends, a Chinook pow-wow, and a grandson's poem.
- The Governor’s Dilemma: Can Washington Skip Congress to Become a State?
Territory’s top lawyers clash over whether the Governor can unilaterally call a constitutional convention to bypass federal delays in statehood.
- The First Washington Legislature: A Pioneer's Memory
A look back at the frontier days of 1854, when lawmakers traveled by rowboat to Olympia and held sessions in a modest frame building.
- Spokane’s Fifteen-Cent Fair Was a Dollar Show for the Inland Empire
In October 1897, Spokane turned a downtown block into a clean, no-gambling agricultural exposition—and invited the whole Inland Empire to admire its fruit, grain, and future.
- Seattle Athletic Club Dazzles with 'Midwinter Night's Dream'
A packed Cordray's Theater applauds a lavish amateur travesty of Shakespeare, complete with cross-dressing fairies and a floral tribute to the librettist.
- Seven Hundred Miles on Horseback: Two Seattle Men Ride the Raw Edge of Eastern Washington
C. W. Loomis and E. D. Manning return from a month in the saddle — snow-choked passes, waterless deserts, blasting on the Great Northern grade, a mining camp on edge after a killing, and a Colville reservation not yet legally open to whites.