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Mossback's Northwest
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Mossback's Northwest
S8 E1 / 7m 11s
The first flight around the world took off and landed in Seattle.
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Mossback's Northwest
S8 E4 / 6m 53s
How racism caused an exodus of Black Americans to Vancouver Island.
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Mossback's Northwest
S8 E7 / 6m 16s
An extraordinary NW photo archive proves to be a visual treasure trove.
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Mossback's Northwest
S8 E8 / 6m 19s
The worst Cascade eruption created an indelible mark across the Northwest.
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Mossback's Northwest
S7 E8 / 6m 10s
Sam Hill built a “castle” on the Columbia and later a replica of Stonehenge.
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Mossback's Northwest
S7 E6 / 8m 12s
In the early 1900s, two men decided to go back-to-nature and become “Nature Man.”
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Mossback's Northwest
S7 E7 / 4m 56s
Seattle’s iconic candy once drew fans and crowds, and people still want to talk about it.
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Mossback's Northwest
S7 E4 / 6m 19s
For Northwest settlers, stumps were both a challenge and a kind of regional status symbol.
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Mossback's Northwest
S7 E1 / 7m 38s
In 1933, the government transformed the Northwest, from cheap power to rugged trails.
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Mossback's Northwest
S7 E2 / 5m 54s
In 1931, an orca swam up the Columbia River to Portland and wound up pickled.
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Mossback's Northwest
S6 E8 / 5m 42s
Jazz Age Seattle produced an amazing multi-racial musical legacy.
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Mossback's Northwest
S6 E6 / 7m 16s
Chief Joseph comes to Seattle to plea for the return of his lands.
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Mossback's Northwest
S6 E5 / 7m 7s
Why Britain and the U.S. nearly went to war over the border because of a dead pig.
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Mossback's Northwest
S6 E4 / 6m 37s
Was Seattle too tough for Wyatt Earp? When he opened a Seattle casino, trouble followed.
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Mossback's Northwest
S6 E3 / 6m 58s
Paul Robeson found his voice for justice at Blaine’s Peace Arch.
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Mossback's Northwest
S6 E2 / 7m 11s
The 1900s saw Seattle play an important role in one of history’s greatest explorations.
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Mossback's Northwest
S6 E1 / 6m 35s
An historic Japantown hotel in Seattle is a living time capsule of tragedy and resilience.
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Mossback's Northwest
S5 E8 / 7m 41s
The mad scheme to bring marriageable women to Puget Sound’s frontier.
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Mossback's Northwest
S5 E5 / 6m 56s
Edward Curtis became famous for his portraits, but his brother also made indelible images.
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Mossback's Northwest
S5 E1 / 6m 38s
Fifty years ago, a skyjacker parachuted from a jet. That's not the weird part.
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Mossback's Northwest
S5 E2 / 6m 5s
There are said to be things stranger than Bigfoot that lurk in the Northwest.
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Mossback's Northwest
S4 E8 / 7m 13s
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Yakima Canutt, a rodeo star from Palouse, became Hollywood's greatest stuntman. He even t
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Mossback's Northwest
S4 E6 / 5m 6s
While digging a pond on Orcas Island 10 years ago, a crew turned up some ancient bones.
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Mossback's Northwest
S4 E5 / 6m 2s
The first Hollywood movie ever shot in Seattle was "Tugboat Annie."
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Mossback's Northwest
S4 E4 / 7m 5s
This guy was the last of the old West style outlaws in the Northwest.
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Mossback's Northwest
S4 E2 / 4m 24s
For centuries, there is evidence that Japanese vessels have washed up on the WA coast.
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Mossback's Northwest
S3 E8 / 3m 46s
The Alaska gold rush spurred dreams of riches, but also visions of aviation.
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Mossback's Northwest
S3 E7 / 4m 6s
Bustling Seattle was building one freeway after another in the 1960s and 70s.
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Mossback's Northwest
S3 E6 / 5m 15s
One of the state's first settlers was a free black man. His family left a lasting legacy.
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Mossback's Northwest
S3 E5 / 3m 5s
Native Swinomish paddlers met the UW Husky 'Boys in the Boat' in a 1941 race.
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Mossback's Northwest
S3 E4 / 4m 52s
A little medicine bottle played a huge role in Seattle's artistic life.
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Mossback's Northwest
S3 E1 / 5m 23s
The Olympia, the Pacific Coast's only indigenous oyster, was once a major industry.
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Mossback's Northwest
S3 E2 / 5m 44s
In 1919, a violent clash between Wobblies and the American Legion left scars in the NW.
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Mossback's Northwest
S2 E13 / 4m 40s
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is one of the epic civil engineering failures of all time.
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Mossback's Northwest
S2 E12 / 5m 37s
In 1889, three of Washington's cities burned within weeks of each other.
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Mossback's Northwest
S2 E9 / 4m 3s
The story of a white supremacist who left an uncomfortable past for the frontier.
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Mossback's Northwest
S2 E8 / 5m 20s
Fake news is not new—hoaxes have been around for ages. We look at some that made real news
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Mossback's Northwest
S2 E6 / 4m 56s
Seattle and Tacoma's biggest battle is over the name of our biggest mountain.
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Mossback's Northwest
S2 E5 / 5m 15s
Harry Allen, AKA Nell Pickerell, became a NW celebrity by challenging gender norms.
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Mossback's Northwest
S2 E4 / 4m 15s
Today, climate change dominates discourse in Seattle — but it used to be coal.
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Mossback's Northwest
S2 E3 / 3m 54s
Lesser Seattle' wanted to keep the city free of pretension — and Californians.