Kate Borst
Kate Kanim Borst was a Native American woman who witnessed the transformation of Snoqualmie Valley from prairies and Indian encampments to the beginnings of suburbia.
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María Feliciana Arballo
María Feliciana Arballo, a 25-year-old widow of Afro-Latina descent with two small children, was one of about forty women in the Anza expedition when it began its colonizing journey from Sonora, Mexico to Alta California (upper California) in 1775.
Priscilla Maunders Kirk
Oral history of an African American Seattleite
Dorothy Almonjuela
Oral history: Growing Up Squamish
Charley Parkhurst
Called the “best whip in California,” Charley Parkhurst was a legendary six-horse stagecoach driver during California’s Gold Rush.
Pelagie Faribault
Pelagie Faribault was a métis (Native and European) woman who received Wita Tanka (Big Island, also called Pike Island) from her Dakota kin as part of an 1820 treaty with the United States. The Faribault family had influence among their Dakota relatives, and Pelagie in particular was known for her acts of generosity.
Mary Metesh Plutt
Yugoslavian migrant to the United States at the start of the 1900s
Margaret McKenzie
New Zealand settler
Sarah Whitby
Among the many African American families that moved to Washington were the Whitbys; Sarah Whitby worked as a laundress. She had nine children, and although she was herself illiterate, all of her children could read.
Ellie Hanley
Irish murder victim