By Richard Willner
Special to the Statesman-Examiner
158 Years Ago - 1860
Lt. Samuel Anderson, a member of the British Boundary Commission, reported on his Christmas visit to Fort Colville. “The Americans at their garrison celebrated their Christmas in their usual way — one man stabbed, another shot at, several heads broken and eyes blackened and their military surgeon breaking his fist in some pugilistic encounter with a citizen.” From, Book Two — Military Fort Colville — compiled by Patrick Graham