July 8, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life
The “Princess of the Columbia” lived a cosmopolitan life within the walls of Fort Vancouver, a remote Hudson’s Bay Company outpost on the Columbia River, yet found it also stifling. Read story
July 6, 2023, 5:05am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
July 1, 2023, 6:06am Clark County Life
During the late 1700s and early 1800s, American naturalists longed for the scientific credibility of those in Europe. The Lewis and Clark expedition revealed countless discoveries in American biology and zoology that awaited the scientific community. The excitement of that first scientific expedition sent the new nation’s scientists into a… Read story
June 30, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
June 24, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life
The foremost naturalist of the first half of the 19th century spent about a year at Fort Vancouver hunting flora and fauna around the Pacific Northwest and its coast. Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) joined the second Nathaniel Wyeth expedition in 1834, which was headed for the Pacific Ocean. At the time,… Read story
June 23, 2023, 5:02am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
June 17, 2023, 6:04am Clark County Life
A little girl once told Warm Springs elder Linda Meanus during a school visit that she didn’t know Native Americans exist at all anymore. Read story
June 17, 2023, 5:38am Clark County Life
Vancouver has a different kind of library — very different. You’ve probably never heard of it. It’s small and contains about 300 volumes bound in black, gray, blue or maroon. It’s a library housing unpublished manuscripts that commercial publishing won’t accept. One might consider this library a literary dead end.… Read story
June 15, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
The 1907 house once inhabited by prolific politician and builder J.P. Kiggins has stood sentinel over Vancouver through its ups and downs. Read story