The year 1858 marked a watershed moment in the history of the confrontation between Native American tribes in the Evergreen State and the growing interests of the United States government. Fur traders, missionaries, and gold hunters were followed by farmers and stock raisers, who were able to expand their domains at the expense of the tribes while they continued to trade with them. 
The tensions created by the situation prompted the white settlers to organize militias and, eventually, to request the assistance of U.S. military to protect themselves. Fights erupted around the Puget Sound shoreline, the Yakima Valley, and the Walla Walla Valley during the summer of 1855. 
By 1858, things had begun to quiet down. Thus, Colonel Edward Steptoe had no reservations about leading a small and weakly equipped column of men through the heart of Columbia Plateau Indian territory. 
A crushing defeat at the Battle of Pine Creek pushed him on to seek vengeance against those who had dealt him such a humiliating defeat. Few months after the Steptoe fiasco, Colonel George Wright led a major display of military power through the Spokane Valley, ultimately eliminating the Natives' ability and desire to fight the government.
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Fort Ward was a United States Army coastal defense post built on Bainbridge Island to protect the Bremerton naval shipyard. It was a functioning installation until the 1920s, when it was officially closed in 1928 and turned into a summer camp for underprivileged boys and girls. The navy took over the facility as a recreational camp for sailors in 1938, and the following year it became a secret navy listening post (Station S) for intercepting Japan's military transmissions, as well as tracking enemy shipping in cooperation with other coast defense installations in the Evergreen State.
From 1940 through 1953, a Naval Reserve Radio School was also stationed there. The navy closed Fort Ward that same year, and the waterfront area becomes Fort Ward State Park in 1960. (now known as Fort Ward Park, which is part of the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District).
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From the very first fair to its massive incarnation today, the Puyallup Fair has an extensive history, but not all of it positive. In this episode, learn how the fairgrounds were used as a staging center for Japanese Internees during the second World War.
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The coal mining town of Elk Coal, located on the flank of Sugarloaf Mountain, is possibly the most forgotten of the abandoned coal mining villages of King County. Located one and a half miles west of the now-defunct town of Durham, one and a quarter miles south of Kangley, and one and a half miles north of Palmer-Kanaskat, the town was surrounded by coal mines. 
There were multiple underground coal mining operations within three miles of Elk Coal, including the Durham, Hiawatha, Kangley, Palmer, Bayne, Occidental, Cumberland, and Navy mines, as well as the bigger Ravensdale and Black Diamond mines, which were located further west. 
Robert Pearson was an Irish immigrant who worked as a livery stable owner and homesteaded the land which would become the site of the Elk Coal mine and the town of the same name.  
Pearson and his daughter Aileen (Estby and subsequently Gregovich) also ran a store and gas and sundry station on the Kanaskat-Kangley county road, where the alternate spelling "Elkcoal" announced the town's existence to passing motorists.  Locals just referred to it as Elko for the most part, though.

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On  May 24th, 1935, in broad daylight in Tacoma, Washington, George H. Weyerhaeuser, age nine, was stolen from the street by an unknown assailant. His kidnappers sent a letter to the Weyerhaeuser family in which they demanded $200,000 in exchange for the boy's safe return. On June 1st, George Weyerhaeuser was released from prison in rural Issaquah when his father, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., paid the ransom. The largest manhunt in the history of the Pacific Northwest was launched by an army of federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel working together.

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Due to its strategic location halfway between the Columbia River and Puget Sound, Centerville, now known as Centralia, quickly become a popular site for settlers. George Washington, the son of a slave, was one of the early residents in the area.
The community that he helped to found is located in the southwestern area of the Evergreen State, at the junction of the Chehalis River and the Skookumchuck River.
For thousands of years, people have relied on the natural resources of the area — timber, fish, fertile soil, coal, and a level plain surrounded by rolling hills — to support their lives and establish their communities on a foundation of natural riches. In spite of the fact that the region is relying less on its natural resources today, the town's key location on the plain that weaves its way through the hills between Seattle and Portland has allowed it to maintain its importance.
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Women first entered the public sphere in the early twentieth century as a result of the fight for women's suffrage and the prohibition movement. As a result of the enactment of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote, the idea of women participating in politics was no longer considered inappropriate. 
When Bertha Knight Landes was elected mayor of Seattle in 1926, the city became the first large city in the United States to have a female mayor. She was only in office for a single two-year period, however.
Landes and her husband, Henry, relocated to Seattle in 1895 after Henry was appointed to the University of Washington faculty. She was the mother of three children and was involved in a number of women's organizations. She was the founder of the Women's City Club and the first president of the Washington State League of Women Voters (now the League of Women Voters). Landes' ability to lead was recognized early on, and she became one of the first women to serve on the Seattle City Council.
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Pomeroy is the county seat of Garfield County, which is the least populous of the Evergreen State's 39 counties. It is also the county's only incorporated city. Pomeroy is an agricultural district in the Pataha Valley in the southeastern part of the state, mostly devoted to dry-land wheat, barley, and grass-seed production, as well as cattle and sheep ranching.

Pomeroy has 1,515 residents in 2009, out of a total of 2,400 in Garfield County. Pomeroy is 1,850 feet above sea level and receives an average of 17 inches of rain per year. A tributary of the Tucannon River, Pataha Creek, runs through the heart of town.

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Though Mycobacterium tuberculosis may have been existing for as long as 3 million years, Johann Schonlein coined the term "tuberculosis" in 1834.

Tuberculosis (TB) was known in ancient Greece as "phthisis," in ancient Rome as "tabes," and in ancient Hebrew as "schachepheth." Due to the paleness of the sufferers, tuberculosis was dubbed "the white plague" in the 1700's. Even after Schonlein named it tuberculosis, TB was referred to as "consumption" in the 1800's. TB was also known as the "Captain of all these men of death" during this time.

Firland Sanatorium, Seattle's municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on the 2nd of May, 1911, to assist in combating the city's main cause of death at the time, tuberculosis. Firland was a 34-acre estate in the Richmond Highlands area, 12 miles north of Seattle's then-border (in 1995 this first Firland site became part of the newly incorporated City of Shoreline). The hospital remained there until 1947, when it was moved to a former Naval hospital (at 15th Avenue NE and 150th Street) and continued to treat tuberculosis patients until 1973. 

The railroad mogul Horace C. Henry, whose son Walter had died of tuberculosis, was a key founder of Firland Sanatorium.

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Smohalla, a Wanapum spiritual leader, developed the Dreamer religion, which was based on the notion that if Native Americans eschewed white culture and lived as their forefathers had, the Creator would reward them by resurrecting deceased Native Americans and removing white people from their territory. In the late 1800's, his teachings quickly spread among the Columbia Plateau peoples. Smohalla gave promise for a restoration of freedom and dignity to tribes that had been decimated by disease, pushed out of their traditional homelands, and generally demoralized by white expansion. 
Many whites, on the other hand, saw him as a threat, not just to white expansion but also to efforts to "civilize" the Indian Native Americans. He was widely feared and reviled during his lifetime, but a century later he was inducted into Washington's Centennial Hall of Honor as one of the state's 100 most influential persons.
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