The Ham Council

ID: 3615
This file appears in: The Great Fire of 1889

An excerpt of a 1966 interview of George Libby, recounting the controversy of the "Ham Council."

Audio courtesy of the Washington State Digital Archives, Voices of the Pioneers Collection

Edited by Anna Harbine

This file appears in: The Great Fire of 1889

By Anna Harbine
When the territory of Washington became a state in 1889, the city of Spokane Falls was one of its largest and most successful cities. Attracting wealthy businessmen who had stakes in the nearby Idaho mines, Spokane Falls was a thriving young city…