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Chief Joseph’s Seattle Sojourn
He was invited to the city to talk about his storied past, but the Nez Perce chief had his eye on the future of his people.
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
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The disturbing Pelosi attack recalls Seattle’s Goldmark murders
State legislator John Goldmark became a political target of right-wing extremists in the 1960s. Two decades later, those accusations came to a violent head.
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Mossback's Northwest: A dead pig nearly started a war with Britain
Should the San Juan Islands be on the British or American side of the border? In 1859, the two countries nearly battled over it.
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The Pig War That Almost Was
A border conflict between the U.S. and Britain, combined with the ambitions of a future Confederate general, almost turned the Salish Sea into a war zone.
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Mossback's Northwest: Was Seattle too tough for Wyatt Earp?
The West's most famous lawman went from gunfighting in Tombstone, Arizona, to opening a gambling parlor in Seattle's Tenderloin neighborhood.