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| 1876 | 3 |
| 1877 | 1 |
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- The Battle of the Bluffs
A pack of greyhounds brings a swift, bloody end to a local coyote, turning the riverbanks into a scene of primal, rural drama.
- Clearing the Beach Squatters
City authorities order the removal of squatters living on the tide lands as the city begins to enforce strict land claims.
- The Last of the Crib-Dwellers
A railroad company successfully clears the last remaining shack underneath the King Street trestle.
- The Trial of the Chicken Thieves
A confrontation over local theft lands ten men in court, resulting in a complex legal battle for the defense.
- The Dream of the Suburban Garden Plot
Developers in 1891 sold city dwellers on the 'choicest' acreages just outside of the developing Seattle core, promising a life of suburban gardens along the new Rainier Avenue electric line.
- The Last Days of Thomas: A Seattle Family’s Grief in 1899
An obituary for a local resident reveals the intimate scale of life in early Seattle, where death was a public event and family networks were the primary social safety net.
- The Human Zoo at the St. Louis World’s Fair
Eighty Moros from Mindanao arrived in Tacoma via the steamship Tremont, bound for an exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
- Why is the Seattle Mail Missing?
As the Northern Pacific Railway connects the Pacific Northwest, residents are fuming over persistent postal failures.
- The Salvation Army's Plan to End Urban Poverty
A proposal to move impoverished tenement dwellers from congested cities onto government-allotted public lands in the West.
- The Street-Level Cost of Filth
A local observer decries the sanitary conditions of Seattle's waterfront and argues that private enterprise requires public hygiene.
- The New Year’s Eve Saloon Standoff
Prosser voters went 'dry,' but local saloonkeepers are refusing to close their doors.
- The Seattle Winter That Shocked New York
When a Seattle colonel sent a bouquet of fresh January flowers to a snow-shrouded New York editor, the gesture became a national curiosity about Washington Territory's mild climate.
- Seattle’s Surprisingly Mild Winter of 1876
While outsiders imagined the Pacific Northwest as a frozen, inhospitable tundra, locals were enjoying a 'genial' December filled with blooming garden flowers.
- The Cougar Who Saved a Cyclist’s Life
A Tacoma engineer recounts his miraculous escape after a mountain lion knocked him upright on his bicycle during a terrifying encounter.
- The Settlers’ Plea for the Skagit River
Without government support, early pioneers are manually clearing massive river logjams to open the Skagit Valley to trade and development.
- The Legislature Went Home Without a Senator
Washington's lawmakers adjourned deadlocked, leaving U.S. Senator John B. Allen unseated — and handing the blame to a 'factional minority' that refused to yield.
- The Garbage Crisis: Seattle’s ‘Primitive’ Streets Demand a Permanent Solution
As the City Council debates the fate of the city's waste, officials warn that makeshift disposal methods are turning neighborhoods into health hazards and driving down property values.
- Letter from a Lost Seattle Pioneer
A former Seattle druggist living in Long Beach, California, writes back to the 'Queen City' to reminisce about the old days, painting a vivid portrait of a town changing faster than the pioneers could keep up with.
- The Great Fill: Seattle’s First Major Land Reclamation and the Fight for White Labor
In October 1876, workers are frantically raising Front Street to save it from the Duwamish River. The local press frames this massive public works project not just as engineering, but as a moral victory for 'white labor' over cheap Chinese competition.