Mossback Mossback’s Northwest: Seattle loved Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show The frontiersman’s act, a blend of the sensational and the authentic, helped construct the myth of the West in the country’s collective imagination. by Knute Berger / May 3, 2024
Mossback Mossback’s Northwest: Keep Clam and Carry On From Indigenous origin stories to restaurateur Ivar Haglund, the bivalves have become an edible emblem of Puget Sound beaches. by Knute Berger / April 26, 2024
Mossback Mossback’s Northwest: How Hollywood helped produce a Boeing cover-up During WWII, a movie set designer helped camouflage the factory where B-17 Flying Fortresses were built. Did it work? by Knute Berger / April 12, 2024
Mossback Mossback’s Northwest: How avalanches changed PNW train travel In 1910, twin tragedies eroded trust in the railway system and over a century later stand as the most fatal ever in Washington and British Columbia. by Knute Berger / April 5, 2024
Mossback Mossback's Northwest: Getting wild in the Pacific Northwest We love the outdoors for refuge and recreation, but the Pacific Northwest wilderness has its own forgotten history. by Knute Berger / December 11, 2023
News Tokitae’s death surfaced orcas’ complicated history in the PNW The death of the whale at a Miami amusement park just before her planned release highlighted the species’ fraught relationship with humans. by Knute Berger / December 4, 2023
Mossback Mossback’s Northwest: The eruption that carved Oregon’s Crater Lake While Mount Mazama blew its top almost 8,000 years ago, it’s still remembered today by the descendants of its witnesses. by Knute Berger / November 24, 2023
Mossback Mossback’s Northwest: Asahel Curtis’ photography gets a new life The Washington State Historical Society is digitizing 55,000 previously unseen images by the legendary Northwest photographer. by Knute Berger / November 17, 2023
Mossback Mossback’s Northwest: The woman behind the Pacific Crest Trail A teacher from Bellingham helped preserve the PCT and the Federation Forest state park that otherwise would have fallen to the axe. by Knute Berger / November 10, 2023
Mossback Mossback’s Northwest: The day Germany bombed Seattle Determined to keep America out of WWI, German saboteurs blew up a ship in Elliott Bay. by Knute Berger / November 3, 2023