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153 stories matching tent
- 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.
- A Tent City Emerges in Seattle
A desperate housing shortage and the high cost of living have forced hundreds of residents into tent encampments.
- The Caterpillar Club of Skagit County
A dedicated teacher organizes students into an orchard-saving force, illustrating the era's civic-minded approach to agricultural pests.
- The Great Seattle Tent-Roof Controversy
Facing a winter housing shortage, Seattle officials were forced to choose between strict fire safety codes and allowing residents to shelter themselves under makeshift canvas roofs.
- Seattle's Great Tent Crisis
After the Great Fire of 1889, the city struggled to regulate the makeshift shanties and board-and-canvas tents cluttering the city limits.
- Fire Sweeps Through Seattle's Second Street Waffle House
A kitchen explosion sends breakfast patrons fleeing as a tent-based eatery is reduced to rubble.
- Seattle’s Tent City: The Great Fire’s Temporary Housing
A detailed census of the makeshift wooden and canvas structures housing the city in the weeks after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889.
- The Tent City Spokesman
Recalling the winter of 1909, when the White Bluffs Spokesman was forced to publish out of a canvas tent to keep the town's news flowing.
- The Great Tent That Flopped: Seattle’s First Major Spectacle Washed Out
In October 1876, the famous Montgomery Queen's Circus arrived in Seattle with a massive tent and twenty trained horses, only for torrential rain to collapse their grand opening. A rare look at early Seattle entertainment and civic life.
- The Tragedy at the Eagle Annex
A woman is found dead in a tent and her companion lies near death, leaving police with a grisly mystery and no murder weapon.
- The Christian Athlete: Military Encampment Keeps the Sabbath
Despite the lure of recreation, soldiers at the local encampment gathered for Sunday services and athletics at the YMCA tent.
- The Evangelist and the Elks
A visiting revivalist stirs controversy in Moscow, Idaho, and brings his tent-preaching tour to Walla Walla.
- The Adjutant General, the Tent Dealer, and the Missing $175
Tacoma's adjutant general denies trading guard business for a vote, but Jack Holleran has disappeared, leaving a disputed bill and a whiff of patronage politics.
- A Spilled Bowl of Soup, a Fatal Shot at Camp Murray
A mess-tent quarrel between two young soldiers ended with Private Thomas Vandiver shot through the body and Private Frederick Stubbs in the county jail, claiming self-defense.
- The Horse Medicine Vendetta
A tense dispute at an American Lake campsite results in a warrant after a man allegedly smears horse medicine over his neighbor's bedclothes.
- The Lonely End of Mike Steinburg
An elderly, indigent man dies alone at the county poor house after being found starving in a tent near Lowden.
- Squak Valley Trial: Chinese Hop-Pickers Killed in 1885 Raid
A brutal night of terror in the hop fields as an armed mob targets immigrant laborers.
- Thief Raids Adventist Camp in South Tacoma
While campers attended services in the main tent, a local man allegedly pilfered valuables from their temporary settlement.
- A Nighttime Tragedy at the Everett Brickyard
A storm-toppled tree crushes a worker's tent in the mud of Swaiwell Landing.
- The Mystery of the Lost Tent Mine
Twenty-two years after a rich gold strike in the Cascades, a party of prospectors still hunts for their abandoned fortune.
- Abandoned in a Tent
A sick, elderly man found destitute near Lowden Station is moved to the county poorhouse after neighbors can no longer provide care.
- The City Surveyor’s Summer Retreat
While Seattle’s real estate market remains frantic, the City Surveyor is taking a quiet break in a tent at Lake Washington.
- A Local Bootlegger Arrested
An officer catches a man red-handed in a tent near the gas house, highlighting the ongoing tension of the era's restrictive alcohol laws.
- The Unfinished Frontier: A Peek into Early Seattle Military Life
While infrastructure and shipping dominated the headlines of 1885, a small group of Army officers and their families were living in tents on the Seattle waterfront, waiting for their permanent quarters to be completed.
- Fatal Forest Hazard Claims Life Near South Prairie
A falling tree at a railroad contractor's camp kills one worker and injures eight others, exposing the perilous conditions of logging near forest fires.