Stories by author "Charlie Byers": 8
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Punk Rock Comes to Spokane: Spokane's musical heritage is more than Bing
A three-ring circus?
Dutch Jake's Park: West Central's Most Famous Resident Memorialized
Goetz's "capacity for friendship and his charity" had made him "known from one end of this country to the other"
Doomsday Hill: Bloomsday's Toughest Climb
If you’ve never seen a city taken over by almost sixty thousand runners, visit downtown Spokane on the first Sunday in May. Since 1977, the Lilac Bloomsday Run has been a major event for the city.…
A.K. Mozumdar and the Problem of Whiteness: A Spokane immigrant and an historic court case
The crowds who came to see Akhay Kumar Mozumdar at this church in 1916 considered him a holy man, possibly even a miracle worker. But was he white? Few today know the story of Mozumdar, or how this…
The Orchard at Ft. Spokane
Today, most of Fort Spokane is bare foundations. But in the shade of the ponderosas on the western edge of the site, a few of the orchard’s original apple trees have held their ground for more than a…
How the West was Watered: The Fruitland Company Irrigation System
If they’d known it would end up under a lake, they might not have worked so hard to bring water to this land.
Make Way for Rising Waters: The 1310 Line and the Flooding of Lake Roosevelt
How do you get two tribes, six counties, and nine federal agencies to agree on something? As work began on the Grand Coulee Dam, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was busy acquiring the land that would…
Carving the Columbia: The Ice Age Floods
These gently sloping hills beside the lake show the marks of a tumultuous process at work. This region of the Columbia Basin was carved over eons by the meander of the river, by slow erosion, and by…