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12 stories matching woodsman
- Colville Cabin Tragedy
A friendship ends in violence when a woodsman reportedly loses his sanity and kills his employer.
- The Price of a Quail in South Tacoma
A local woodsman faces legal trouble for out-of-season hunting as authorities crack down on regional game violations.
- Brutal Workplace Injuries at Local Mills
Three workers in Aberdeen and Hoquiam are left broken and maimed after harrowing industrial accidents in a single week.
- The High Cost of Empty Promises
The Aberdeen Herald argues that a proposed $310,000 road bond will tax local residents into poverty without delivering viable infrastructure.
- A Woodsman's Night Terrors
A Snoqualmie man's journey home turns into a desperate flight from wildlife after his lantern fails.
- Lost for Days in the Grays Harbor Wilderness
An elderly hunter is rescued in a state of delirium after disappearing in the rain-soaked timberlands north of Riverside.
- The Last of the Pioneer Orchard
When Dexter Horton, Seattle’s banking titan, began felling his historic apple trees in 1885, he sparked a flurry of neighborhood rumors about the future of his downtown lots.
- The Mystery of the Vanished Prospectors
A trio of woodsmen, including a local favorite nicknamed 'Navy Jack,' set sail into the treacherous waters north of Seattle and have not been seen in eleven weeks.
- The Mail-Order Bride Who Chose Another Man
Katherine Glad traveled west to marry a Northport farmer, but a chance meeting with Gus Maki changed everything.
- A Former Seattle Policeman Fell Between the Logs — and the Tide Took Him Before Anyone Could
Edward Kane went out at nine o'clock to bring in a raft of spruce. At noon his hat and pike pole were floating on water barely four feet deep, and there was no body to be found.
- The Desperado Who Vanished Into the Brush
A King County manhunt closes in on escaped murderer Thomas Blanck—until a dark ambush near Black River Junction lets him slip away behind his partner’s raised hands.
- 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.