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Mossback's Northwest: The origins of crab Louis, the NW's quintessential salad
The 'King of Salads' started appearing on menus of upscale restaurants and hotels in the early 1900s but its origin remains a mystery
Stephen Hegg
Stephen is formerly a senior video producer at Crosscut and KCTS 9. He specialized in arts and culture, and produced Mossback’s Northwest and Crosscut NOW.
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Mossback's Northwest: Is Paul Bunyan folklore or fakelore?
The giant logger and his blue ox Babe are the stuff of American folktales. But really, who — or what — was Paul Bunyan?
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Mossback's Northwest: Before the Kraken, what lurked in the Salish Sea?
Area waters have a history of monster sightings, many of them way stranger than Bigfoot.
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Video | D.B. Cooper: Folk Hero or Terrorist?
Fifty years after Cooper skyjacked an airplane over Washington, attitudes toward the incident have changed.
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Mossback's Northwest: The Palouse cowboy who inspired John Wayne
Hollywood’s greatest Western stuntman was a rodeo champion from Washington state.