Roslyn; a mining town nestled in Washington�s Cascade Mountains; is a little town with a big history. Founded three years before Washington was admitted to the Union; Roslyn became a boomtown after the discovery of coal. Coal was king in Roslyn for 80 years; and immigrants came from all over the world to work the mines. Roslyn�s remarkable history includes stories of murder; a mine strike that ended with the mine boss tied to the railroad tracks; and a bank robbery some claim was masterminded by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Readers will meet characters like Tony Bailey�he turned out to be a she�who worked the mines for 11 months in 1949 before being arrested one night in a tavern for going into the women�s bathroom dressed as a man. And no book about Roslyn would be complete without a chapter on the hit television series Northern Exposure; which was filmed there.
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