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The Alpine Lakes Wilderness covers more than 414,000 acres within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Okanogan-Wenatchee national forests in the northern Cascade Mountains of Washington. The wilderness inc...
Renowned Washington sculptor Harold Balazs (pronounced "blaze") created a lasting legacy in visual arts and architecture during his career spanning more than six decades. His greatest contributions ca...
Among the first women to pursue the art of photography, Imogen Cunningham came of age in Seattle. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1907, worked for Edward Curtis, studied in Germany,...
Place has primacy in the writing of Annie Dillard, and the history and geography of Washington figure notably in several of her books. Even though she resided only four years in the state, two of thos...
James Nettle Glover is the acknowledged "Father of Spokane," though in light of recent research about his life, that honorific is troubling to some. Glover arrived at Spokane Falls from Oregon in 1873...
Originally known as Hanford Engineer Works, the Hanford Nuclear Site was built in the early 1940s to produce fuel for nuclear weapons, including the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, an...
David Horsey is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who covered political issues, society, and popular culture during a 30-year career at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. After the P...
Stoddard King was a Spokane journalist, an internationally acclaimed poet, and the writer of a song widely performed during World War I. His light verse and public persona, as well as his intellect an...
Lokout was a Yakama Indian, a sharpshooter against the U.S. military, and an intelligence resource for historians. He outlived most of his friends and adversaries. Born of two chieftain families, he w...
Jimmy Marks, leader of a small Romani community in Spokane, became known for heaping curses on city leaders following a 1986 raid on his home and the home of his father, Grover Marks, in which police ...
Milt Priggee is an editorial cartoonist based in the state of Washington. His work has been published in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, a...
Prohibition, a noble experiment that went wrong, generated a thriving black market for liquor in Washington. Along the waterways of the Pacific Northwest, a new breed of ...
Soap Lake, a small town on the southern shore of its namesake lake, has long been a tourist mecca thanks to the supposed healing powers of the lake's mineral-rich waters. Located in Grant County 23 mi...
U.S. Army veteran David Sohappy Sr. (1925-1991) was a Wanapum fishing activist who became the center of a national controversy involving government regulators and tribal fishers in the Pacific Northwe...
On August 21, 1853, Theodore Winthrop (1828-1861) finishes a tour of Washington Territory at Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula. He has toured the territories of California, Oregon, and British Co...
On September 25, 1858, with his half-brother Qualchan and Qualchan’s wife Whistalks, Yakama warrior Lokout rides into the camp of Col. George Wright. The three relatives are answering a summons ...
On May 11, 1873, James Nettle Glover first encounters the wild cataracts of Spokane Falls. Already a man of considerable wealth at age 36, he is touring the Palouse region of Washington Territory in s...
On August 7, 1928, Washington-born rumrunner Johnny Schnarr registers his new boat, Kitnayakwa, under the name of a fish buyer in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Kitnayakwa, built by Victor...
On Christmas Eve 1955, former Seattle inventor and bootlegger Alfred Matthew Hubbard (1901-1982) turns novelist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) on to the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide ...
On February 26, 1979, writer Annie Dillard (b. 1945) and her husband, Gary Clevidence, watch a rare solar eclipse from a hillside in the Yakima Valley. The day before they drove to Eastern Washington ...
On May 18, 1988, tribal fishing activist and U.S. military veteran David Sohappy Sr. (1925-1991) is released on federal parole from the Geiger Corrections Center in Spokane. With his son, Sohappy has ...
On July 1, 1997, after battling Spokane County and the City of Spokane for 11 years, the Marks family – leaders of the city's small Romani community – is awarded a sett...
On June 5, 1998, sixteen rooms in a two-story log building at Soap Lake’s unique Notaras Lodge are gutted by fire. The massive, desiccated, old-growth logs used to build the lodge fuel the fire....
On August 30, 2000, editorial cartoonist Milt Priggee (b. 1953) publishes his last cartoon at Spokane's oldest newspaper, the Spokesman-Review. His work delights the city's liberals but irritates the ...
On December 14, 2020, during its regular weekly meeting, the Spokane City Council unanimously votes to change the name of Fort George Wright Drive in west Spokane to Whistalks Way. Colonel George Wrig...