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Clark County History: Vancouver's historical connection to Panama

Clark County History: Vancouver’s historical connection to Panama
By Martin Middlewood for The Columbian
Published: April 18, 2021, 6:00am
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After seven years work, George Washington Goethals finished the Panama Canal in 1914, completing a task that stymied two other engineers. He commenced his first real engineering work as a lieutenant at the Vancouver Barracks, and performed many routine duties, including planning the headquarters building, designing the new post cemetery, mapping telegraph lines and creating tables marking the distances between Department of the Columbia posts. This photo was taken before his death in 1928. (Contributed by Library of Congress)
Maybe his middle name, Washington, foretold George W. Goethals’ (1858-1928) assignment to the Vancouver Barracks during 1882-1884. As the sole engineer under ill-tempered Brig. Gen. Nelson Miles, district commander, he was expected to be the Columbia District’s engineer ....

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Why the United States Revoked Hundreds of Medals of Honor

Why the United States Revoked Hundreds of Medals of Honor
Dr. Mary E. Walker was a civilian contract surgeon who was recommended for the Medal of Honor by Gen. William T. Sherman. Her award was revoked in 1917 and returned in 1977. (Library of Congress)
Dr. Mary Walker was a volunteer surgeon for the Union Army during the Civil War, treating the wounded in Washington and at the Battle of Bull Run.
Later, she became the first woman surgeon ever officially employed by the Army, seeing action at Fredericksburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga. In 1864, she was captured by Confederate soldiers and spent four months in a prisoner-of-war camp. After the war, she was awarded the Medal of Honor for her service. ....

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The Kingsclere pub massacre which left three dead

IT WAS October 5, 1944 when an horrific shooting massacre happened in a Kingsclere pub, resulting in three people being murdered.
Seventy-six years after the gruesome triple murder happened, the Gazette looks back at that fateful night, with information from Kingsclere Heritage Association, researched by a relative of someone who was there.
Hushed up by the allied forces for fear it could affect relations with the Americans and be a blow to the morale of civilians, details of the massacre were almost lost to history.
And with conflicting information given in accounts about what happened, the true story may never be known. ....

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Former Lakota war chief helped his people assimilate to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation

Former Lakota war chief helped his people assimilate to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
Did You Know That columnist Curt Eriksmoen concludes the story of Gall, a prominent figure in Dakota Territory, and his role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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Gall as photographed by David Francis Barry in the 1880s. Public Domain / Special to The Forum
By 1873, the Northern Pacific Railroad (NPRR) had reached Bismarck, with the objective of extending its line to the Pacific Coast in the next few years. However, Bismarck was as far as the trains would go for the next six years. The reasons given for that are largely the obstacle of building a bridge across the Missouri River and the financial collapse of the railroad, which triggered the national Panic of 1873. ....

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Trapped! 31 Mexican Vaqueros VS Geronimo - True West Magazine

True West Magazine
Well-armed vaqueros, riding 30 strong and led by rancher Patricio Valenzuela, lock on the trail of Geronimo’s Apache band. In a running fight, Geronimo is separated from the other Apaches, then unhorsed. He is forced to take refuge in a cave. He is trapped, and he knows it.
Patricio Valenzuela, the
hacendado (ranch owner) of the Agua Fria hacienda, eight miles east of Cucurpe in Sonora, Mexico, is alerted by his vaqueros of raiding Apaches who have butchered one of his cows and an ox at Tapacadepe. Valenzuela hits the trail with 30 fighting men, along with a pack mule carrying extra cartridges. ....

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