After Colonel Edward Steptoe's defeat by local Native tribes, Colonel George Wright was sent to avenge the U.S. military. Wright's murderous rampage resulted in a street sign memorial in his name.…

Two global fur trade companies became one through a forced merger, a deal that would have a lasting effect on the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest.

In the early 1900s, tuberculosis was known as the “great white plague,” and at the turn of the century it killed around 450 Americans every day. An infectious disease of the lungs, tuberculosis…

The famous Indian Chief and prophet was once jailed here at Fort Spokane for years without trial.

By the late 1800’s, the frontier was gone and the West was dealing with what they called the "Indian problem." One of their solutions was the Indian Boarding School.

Before the Spanish-American War, soldiers stationed at Fort Spokane relied on one man to lift their spirits; a German brewer who made the Fort his home.

This powder magazine once held the latest weapons of war, along with tons of gunpowder.

Soldiers of Fort Spokane acted as a buffer between the Indian reservations and white settlers

"Take Me Out to the Ballgame"

While there was "never a shot fired in anger" at Fort Spokane, life on the fort was not without danger.

You are now standing in front of the foundation of what once was an officer's house. The officers and enlisted men of Fort Spokane were divided by a wide social gulf, as evident with the difference in…