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- The Fallen Commander: Major Thornburgh’s Frontier Legacy
Remembering the life and service of the military officer who served in Washington Territory and met a tragic end on the frontier.
- The 'Curse' of the Chinese: How Seattle's Elite Tried to Buy Their Way Out of Racism
In May 1882, a local editorial argued that property owners should refuse to rent or sell land to Chinese immigrants, claiming they were bad tenants and a financial drain on the city.
- Ten Cents a Seat: Seattle Packs Madison Park for the Widows and Orphans of Franklin
Thousands turn out at the Madison Park resort for a benefit performance — a comedy-drama of the Underground Railroad, an Oriental specialty troupe, and a dime admission — with every cent going to the families of the Franklin miners.
- Olympia Rejects Disunion
While the nation moved toward the brink of Civil War in January 1861, local Olympia leaders declared their firm loyalty to the Union, even as some proposed renaming the capital city.
- The War on Diseased Orchards
A fierce battle erupts between the State Horticultural Commissioner and outside nurserymen over the destruction of thousands of fruit trees.
- The Squire’s Secret Christmas Delivery
In 1885 Seattle, a wealthy local benefactor orchestrates a secret delivery to a struggling family, highlighting the sharp contrast between holiday luxury and the poverty of the growing city.
- The Clumsy Counterfeiter of Jackson Street
A man is caught red-handed trying to pass a crudely altered banknote in a local saloon.
- The Call for Exclusion: A City in Economic Upheaval
Facing a local depression, the Post-Intelligencer demands employers prioritize white workers over Chinese residents to combat unemployment.
- The Hitching Post Fountain
A historic Seattle landmark, rescued from use as a stable hitching post, is restored to its purpose by the W.C.T.U. and the Good Templars.
- The Industrial Pilgrims of Seattle
A group of fifty American workingmen return from an overseas tour with a glowing report on the superiority of American life, sparking a fierce debate on labor, prosperity, and the protective tariff.
- A Governor Says Order First, Arbitration Later
From Seattle, Washington’s governor endorses Cleveland’s Pullman strike crackdown and argues arbitration must wait until the law is obeyed.
- The Town Held Hostage by the Railroad
When the Northern Pacific Railroad bypassed an established town to create a company-owned rival, the residents were left in a fight for their city’s survival.
- The High-License Gamble: Seattle’s 1886 Liquor War
Business owners threaten to shutter their doors in a high-stakes protest against the city’s new, aggressive liquor licensing ordinances.
- A Usk Homesteader Dies of Consumption Far From Home
August Norland, 41, worked summers proving up his homestead and winters as a blacksmith for railroad contractors. Tuberculosis took him in a Spokane hospital, with his neighbor at his side.
- The Dentist and the Stolen Mare
A frontier community falls for a charming drifter who performed medical miracles before making off with the local postmaster's horse.
- The True Cost of a Store Tab in 1872 Seattle
A young couple's struggle with 'monthly accounts' reveals how merchant credit traps were the predatory debt cycles of the 19th century.
- A High School on Lake Washington? Superintendent Pitches a Boating-and-Baseball Campus
As the school board haggled over an Eighth Street lot, Superintendent Barnard imagined a lakeside campus with running tracks, a gymnasium and machine shops — three blocks for the price of one.
- The Great Cedar Jam: How Settlers Cleared the Skagit River by Hand
In September 1876, a group of determined farmers and loggers took on the massive timber jams blocking the Skagit River, hoping to unlock sixty miles of navigation for their struggling community.
- A Local Merchant Passes
A beloved Seattle businessman and lodge member dies of typhoid fever, leaving a grieving family.
- The Knights of Labor Forbidden to Go Political
A national labor board issues a stern rebuke to Seattle assembly members, setting a precedent against using union dues for party politics.
- The Great Flour Rush: Arkansas Millionaire Plans to Reshape Seattle’s North End
N.P. Elsenmeyer arrives from Little Rock with hundreds of feet of waterfront property and a promise to build a massive mill, sparking hopes for a new industrial boom in the city.
- The Pioneer Who Started With $24 Sells His Liquor House
J. N. Squier, in Spokane Falls since 1879, hands his wholesale liquor business to a San Francisco firm to chase his mining interests — leaving a fortune built from almost nothing.
- The Price of Reckless Fire in the Forest
A searing editorial from 1886 lambasts the 'gross and inexcusable carelessness' of campers and railroads that leave Washington’s timberlands in ashes.
- The Trial That Stoked a Mob: The Swiloos Case
After an accused murderer was acquitted, the citizens of Whatcom waged a campaign of social ostracism against the jury, reflecting deep racial tensions and extrajudicial outrage in 1892 Washington.
- The Girl Who Danced on the Boom: A Seattle Near-Miss
In October 1876, a young girl’s reckless game on a floating log boom in Elliott Bay nearly ended in tragedy, sparking warnings about parental neglect and the dangers of Seattle’s waterfront.