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Mossback's Northwest: Seattle's role in polar exploration
Norwegian Roald Amundsen was perhaps the greatest star of the so-called 'golden age' of Arctic expedition — and he used Seattle as a base camp.
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
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Chief Joseph’s Seattle Sojourn
He was invited to the city to talk about his storied past, but the Nez Perce chief had his eye
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The disturbing Pelosi attack recalls Seattle’s Goldmark murders
State legislator John Goldmark became a political target of right-wing extremists in the 1960s. Two decades later, those accusations came to a violent head.
Culture
How Washington gave the world flying saucers and 'men in black'
On this episode of Mossback's Northwest [https://crosscut.com/mossbacks-northwest], a look at what happened on June 24, 1947, when a pilot flew near Mount Rainier.
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Mossback's Northwest: Before the Kraken, what lurked in the Salish Sea?
Area waters have a history of monster sightings, many of them way stranger than Bigfoot.