Let's take a quick trip down the Speedball Highway from Coulee City to Mason City on a warm September night in 1946. The Speedball Highway was contracted around 1933 and was in construction and use by 1934.The highway ran up the coulee from Coulee City to the bridge in Coulee Dam, and originally was constructed... Continue Reading →

still in use, always fun to walk across, more complicated than most suspect. Articles 1935 - 1936 Inside the airlock

The date of this sign is unknown, it is located on a isolated stretch of back country on what once probably started as a wagon trail but later became a dirt and gravel road. The sign is for Phillips and Welch Hardware and Grocery which was in Coulee City during the early 1900s. It's location... Continue Reading →

There are so many things that are lost to time, people forget and they fade away. It was a hot dry summer night in the 1940s in the Coulee several miles past Steamboat Rock on the Coulee City side. The men all stood around the parked pick-up on the side of the Speedball Highway, drinking... Continue Reading →

The end of the Civil War left the South in financial ruin and uncertain future, meanwhile across the nation the West was opening up, a chance for a new life in a new land. It was Manifest Destiny and the romantic dream of the Wild West. Charley had never been out of his home state... Continue Reading →

Wenatchee Daily World, 1934

It was a mild winter in 1885 when newly weds Hans and Matilda Lange loaded up their wagon and made their way from Colfax towards the Grand Coulee where they planned on starting a ranch and raising cattle. On her finger Tilda, as they called her, wore a gold band made from ore struck by... Continue Reading →