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Video title:
Harry Allen, Turn of the Century Trans Youth
Video duration:
5m 15s
Video description:
Long before transgender rights were headline news, a man by the name of Harry Allen was challenging gender norms in the Pacific Northwest, making headlines of his own during the gold rush era of the late 19th century. He was a cowboy, he was a bartender, he was an outlaw and he was born Nell Pickerel. In this episode of Mossback’s Northwest, Knute Berger tells his story.
Grizzlies once roamed the American west, from Alaska to the Southwest. Today the bears are rarely seen in Washington state. For years hundreds of grizzlies lived in the remote wilderness of the North Cascades but now, with sightings so rare, the U.S. government may reintroduce them to this isolated region. What is the history of Northwest grizzlies and what happened to them?
In 1924 a group of American flyers made a bold decision to be the first to fly around the Earth, a flight that would begin and end in Seattle with the whole world watching. In primitive biplanes with open cockpits and only a few provisions these US Army airmen were able to set a new aeronautics record, but not without a few complications on the way.