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- White Husbands in Indigenous Communities on the Frontier
General O.O. Howard describes the precarious lives of white men who married Indigenous women in the Pacific Northwest.
- The Nez Perce Spend Their Windfall
After receiving a large payment, the Nez Perce people arrived in Farmington to trade, filling the town with new buggies, blankets, and curiosity.
- A Gold Rush Camp Called Ives Booms at the Mouth of the Methow
A mining promoter describes a brand-new Okanogan County town of 400 souls, a five-stamp mill running night and day, and a valley filling with prospectors.
- A Gold Rush Above the Snow Line
A Spokane traveler reports from the new Methow Valley mining camps, where promoters are laying out towns, charging $3.50 a day for trail work, and warning poor men to stay away until the snow melts.
- Tragedy on the Skagit
A young worker loses his life in a whirlpool while attempting to transport shingle bolts downriver.
- The Gold Camp That Can't Afford to Dig
Speculators and a Montana syndicate circle the Methow country's richest gold ground, while claim owners sit on high prices and no capital.
- Two Men Drowned in the Methow Trying to Pull a Ferry Rope Across the River
Joseph Henderson had a ranch, four mining claims and a family waiting in Pittsburgh. He died in sight of his own cabin, holding on to a man who could not swim.
- Tensions Rise on the Puyallup Reservation
While U.S. regulars and the Puyallup people clashed on the ground, a high-stakes legal battle was simultaneously waged in the courts over land rights.
- An Everett Miner Sees a Bonanza in the Okanogan
New silver strikes, outside capital and a planned wagon road and railroad have an Everett miner predicting the best season the district has ever seen.
- The Forgotten Heir of Everett
A legal battle pits an Indigenous heir against local titans in the fight for the heart of a burgeoning city.
- The Legal Battle Over a Pioneer’s Legacy
A Skagit County estate dispute pits an Indigenous widow against a white wife, forcing the courts to reckon with territorial-era marriage customs.
- The Shadowy Claim to a Pioneer's Fortune
A woman claiming to be the daughter of a prominent Seattle settler ignites a legal battle over a $40,000 estate, reopening old questions about the city's early days.
- Seattle Kept Its Quarantine — and Cleared Every Native Family Off Ballast Island
With smallpox burning through Victoria and Vancouver, Seattle's health board refuses to reopen the port. Then a policeman hears Chinook on the waterfront and orders an entire encampment off the island 'until the quarantine is raised.'
- The Annual Migration to the Puyallup Valley
A historic snapshot of the diverse, bustling encampments that formed every autumn when the hop harvest drew thousands to the riverbanks.
- Violence in the Blue Front Saloon
A jealous confrontation over a woman leads to a stabbing in Seattle's historic Whitechapel district, highlighting the dangerous intersections of social life in the 1890s.
- 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 High Stakes 'Sing-Gamble' of the Cedar River
For over 130 hours, tribes from the Black, Cedar, and Puyallup rivers engaged in an ancient, rhythmic gambling ritual near Renton, staking their entire winter's livelihood on the outcome.