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4 stories matching custer
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- A Garden Wedding on Lake Steilacoom
Prominent Tacoma socialites Miss Ruby Shera and Mr. Thomas J. Handforth were wed under a canopy of oaks in an elaborate ceremony at the Tyler estate.
- The 'Gold Mine' of the Indian Wars
In 1891, a sensational book about the life of Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn hit the Seattle market, promising agents a 'gold mine' of sales.
- Vancouver Smallpox: No New Cases, One Death, Quarantine Debate
Across the Pacific Northwest, health officials struggle to contain smallpox as performers and desperate travelers attempt to dodge mandatory quarantine.
- A Town Buries Its Miners
Funeral services for the Blue Canyon mine disaster dead fill Bay View cemetery as a coroner's jury begins asking whether enough air—and enough regulation—reached the men underground.