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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.
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 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.
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When Wyatt Earp Came to Seattle
There was money to be had during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. And the infamous lawman knew how to get it.
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Mossback's Northwest: Songs for justice at the Canadian border
When the government took his passport, civil rights activist Paul Robeson sang for thousands atop a truck at Blaine's Peace Arch.