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4 stories matching cowcatch
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- The Cowcatcher Lifted Her Into the Air, and Then They Took Her Home
An elderly Native woman walking the Northern Pacific tracks below town is swept up by the overland express — and walks away from it, carried off by her mother and son.
- Industrial Hazards on the Railroad
Two railroad workers suffer horrific injuries on the same track within a single day, highlighting the extreme dangers of manual labor in the 1890s.
- A Cow on the Track, a Freight Train in the Air, and Two Dead Railroad Men
A wandering cow derailed a freight train near Latona in 1894, killing two railroad workers and scattering thirteen cars while crewmen ran ahead to flag the passenger trains.
- The Sky Turned to Smoke: Forest Fires Choke Puget Sound
Fires across Whatcom, Skagit and the Olympic Mountains destroyed bridges, barns and a shingle mill, derailed a Great Northern train and left Puget Sound under a suffocating haze.
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- The Porpoise and the Cow: A Nautical Disaster in Tacoma
A schooner, a one-eyed cow, and a cargo-hoisting gone horribly wrong—a day on the Tacoma waterfront that ended in broken bunks and a damp bovine.
- The Heifer-Hunting Beast of Kamilche
A two-year-old cow goes missing, and a hunting party tracks a massive cougar to its end.
- The Cattle of Port Crescent
A month after a historic windstorm, four cows were found miraculously alive, fenced in by the very trees that had fallen upon their pasture.
- Midnight Cattle Rustlers at Richmond Beach
Three valuable animals, including a prize Jersey and two Holsteins, were spirited away under the cover of darkness.
- The Cowboy of Elliott Bay
A Spokane journalist turns cowboy on the open water, lassoing a fleeing deer from the deck of a Puget Sound steamer.
- The Great Whale Hunt at Neah Bay
Seventeen canoes descend on a leviathan, turning a tribal bounty into a winter food supply.
- The Predator of Hutchinsons Creek
A Danish settler in a local farming community takes matters into his own hands after a cougar targets his livestock.