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809 stories matching camp
- A Christmas on the Ice King: The Climb That Saw Rainier Smoking
In 1894, Major Ingraham led six men, seven homing pigeons, and a camera onto Mount Rainier’s glaciers. They came back with frostbite, a story of steam and smoke rising from the crater—and one pigeon missing.
- Camp Kelpie: A Seattle Hunting Party in the Last Great Bear Country
In 1895, Seattle sportsmen pitched camp on Hood Canal between the Duckabush and Hamma Hamma rivers and found a wilderness thick with black bear, salmon, and one very unlucky tenderfoot.
- A Seattle Expedition Sets Out to Map Mount Rainier's Glaciers—and Find a Hidden Volcano
Major Ingraham's party leaves Seattle for three weeks on the mountain, hoping to name glaciers, test mineral springs, and locate a smoking volcano seen from the foothills.
- Sixteen Seattleites Climb Rainier, With Carrier Pigeons and a Night on the Crater
Two members of a Seattle climbing party return from Mount Rainier after the rest push on to the summit, where they plan to camp amid volcanic steam and signal the city with bonfires.
- Olympia Bought a $1,500 Sewer Map Critics Called Worthless
A letter to the editor accuses the city council of buying a stranger's sewer plan without scrutiny—complete with a harbor reservoir already condemned in San Diego.
- The Great Fourth of July Camp-Out Fiasco
When Seattle’s local militia attempted to prep for a military parade, their poor planning and lack of supplies resulted in a humiliating, mud-soaked retreat.
- Six Men Climbed a Smoking Rainier in Midwinter
When Mount Rainier seemed to erupt in 1894, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sent Maj. E. S. Ingraham and five companions up the Carbon River in deep winter to find out what was really happening.
- The Mining Promoter Who Told Would-Be Miners to Stay Home
Col. W. Thomas Hart has bonded claims and cut a trail in the new Slate Creek district, but he begs the press not to inflate the strike: there is no work, no mill, and too much snow for prospecting.
- The Great Cascade: A Pilgrimage to the Roar of Snoqualmie Falls
In July 1877, three travelers walked the rugged trail from Snohomish to Fall City, documenting the lush farms, the hospitality of settlers, and the awe-inspiring power of the falls—a testament to the beauty and isolation of early Washington Territory.
- Trapped by the Tide on the Road to Queets
In 1892, poet Herbert Bashford joined a camping party for a walk up Washington’s wild Olympic coast—and found the rising tide more dangerous than any highwayman.
- 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.
- Smallpox Scare Triggers Camp Quarantine
Fear grips the Kittitas country as laborers flee a camp riddled with the 'dread malady' before authorities can secure a quarantine.
- Fifty Jobs and a Logging Camp Pull Newport Out of the Panic
A new McInnis Brothers logging contract south of town gives nearly fifty men six months of work and eases a winter of post-panic unemployment.
- 1,500 Men and a Steam Shovel: Newport Builds the Metaline Line
The Idaho & Washington Northern extension turns Newport into a construction boomtown, with subcontractor camps, mule trains, dynamite barges and a temporary hospital.
- Camp Life at American Lake
Washington's National Guard settles into training at Camp Murray, though soldiers protest substandard conditions and poor transportation.
- Olympic Highway to Restrict Camping
Land Commissioner C.V. Savidge plans to mandate designated camping zones to protect state timber from fire risks along the new scenic highway.
- Logging Camps Stir Again After the Panic
After the financial panic froze the woods, camps around Newport are reopening, adding teams, and waiting for snow to move four million feet of logs.
- The Squak Valley Massacre Trial
A courtroom drama unfolds as witnesses testify regarding the violent night in 1885 when white men raided a Chinese hop-picking camp.
- They Climbed Rainier First—and Slept in a Sulphur-Scented Ice Cave
In 1870, Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump reached Mount Rainier's summit after a brutal 10½-hour climb, then spent a freezing night beside volcanic steam vents.
- The Mother Who Faced Down a Lynch Mob
When a gang of miners prepared to hang a young drifter, the town laundress did the unthinkable: she claimed him as her own son.
- Puget Sound Logging Camps Stay Shut as Mills Chew Through Log Surplus
Puget Sound logging camps, closed since June 18, likely won't reopen before September 1 as mills continue cutting into surplus log inventories; a meeting later this month may decide.
- Smallpox Outbreak at Camp 10
An outbreak at a remote work camp reveals how easily infectious disease traveled through the region’s transit networks.
- The Long Road to Camp Sealth
Twenty-five girls and their chaperone endure a harrowing, breakdown-filled road trip from the Hanford-White Bluffs area to the Puget Sound for a summer camp adventure.
- The Strange Disappearance of a Logger
After a camp cook vanishes with his employer's belongings, the logging crew is left baffled by his sudden and inexplicable departure.
- The Man Who Cut His Hand to Save It: A Snohomish Logging Camp Tragedy
In the sweltering heat of July 1877, a laborer at Hollert’s logging camp suffered a gruesome accident that required immediate surgical intervention in town.
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- The Girls' Camp at Whidbey Island
A group of twenty young ladies establish a summer encampment in the wilderness of Whidbey Island, embracing the freedom of life away from the city.
- The Logging Camp Swap: A Labor Struggle in 1885
A Snohomish camp owner’s decision to replace a white couple with a Chinese laborer ignites a local dispute over working conditions and labor equity.
- The Fight for an Army Camp
Representatives debate whether Tacoma or Spokane should host the new regional military mobilization center.
- War Comes to American Lake
The Army selects a site near Tacoma for a massive new officers' training facility.
- A Logging Camp's Fifteen Minutes of Fame
The local press calls out a national magazine's exaggerated depiction of Shelton's timber industry.
- American Lake Prepared for 25,000 Recruits
War Department designates Tacoma site as concentration camp for new national army training.
- U.S. Troops Camp at Ninth and Columbia
Federal soldiers move into a temporary encampment in downtown Seattle, turning a city block into a military garrison.
- American Lake Prepares for Wartime Enlistment
The War Department announces plans for a massive training camp at American Lake to prepare thousands of recruits for the Great War.