Monday, January 17, 2011, was a cold brisk morning, but there was reason to be in downtown Spokane. The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity March was about to begin and thousands of people prepared to march. As participants were lining up, around…

Soldiers need weapons, and in the era of combustible black powder, a safe place to store weapons and ammunition was especially important. Powder magazines like this one were present on every military base. Black powder is inherently dangerous and…

Soldiers packed their bags and wrote farewell letters to their families. The call for war had sounded, and the elements of the 16th infantry regiment stationed at Fort Spokane had been activated for deployment. The year was 1898 and the Spanish…