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It was a trying time for Seattleites in the summer of 1895. The city was still reeling from the Panic of 1893, which threw the national economy into a tailspin, and the skies were hazy with wildfire smoke. Into this scene stroll Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Reeling from his own financial misfortune, America’s most celebrated author made his only visit to the Pacific Northwest.
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.