"The Westerners, Spokane Corral is dedicated to Pacific Northwest history."
The Pacific Northwesterner
The Pacific Northwesterner
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On September 15, Beverly Hodgins will present “Beyond Mercy and Madness: More About Dr. Mary Archard Latham, Spokane’s First Female Physician.” She will present images and information not included within the pages of her recently released biography, Mercy and Madness: Dr. Mary Archard Latham’s Tragic Fall from Female Physician to Felon. Come and hear untold tales and tidbits about Spokane’s first female physician.
Beverly Lionberger Hodgins is the author of award-winning poems, short stories—including the 2016 LAURA Short Fiction Award winner, “A Girl Named Egg”—and screenplays. Her screenplay, Wayward Warrior, based on her husband’s Vietnam War service years, was a semi-finalist in a FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards competition.
An active member of Women Writing the West (WWW), she served from 2018 through 2020 as editor of the WWW Catalog of Authors’Books. She previously served as a human-interest story writer for the State of Washington’s employee intranet service.
As the great-granddaughter of Oregon pioneers, she treasures stories from the past and was delighted to discover ancestral roots in Washington State as well. She enjoys reading, travelling, creating quilts for her family, and exploring the natural world. Beverly lives with her husband, Tom, and their dog, Lily, in Spokane, Washington.
Get Involved
The purpose of the Westerners is to bring together in warm fellowship men and women who have a common interest and zeal for discovering and disseminating knowledge and understanding of the American West. To this end, Corrals generally meet on a monthly basis and are given a presentation on local or regional history, often times by a member of the Corral. Westerners encourage historical research and may popularize western lore and history though publications, awards, and preservation of archival records, documents, sites and other evidence of the Old West, which otherwise may be lost to posterity.
Thank You
Whether you help through monetary donations, volunteering your time, or becoming a member, spreading our purpose through word-of-mouth, we thank you. We couldn't accomplish our goals without the help of supporters like you.
Our Partners
in 1904, the Pacific Coast Company bought the Black Diamond mine and the town in wa state. The firm, based in New York, also owned steamships, railways, a cement company, and an island in Alaska where they quarried lime rock.
Payment and Donations
The Spokane Corral of Westerners International is duly registered with Westerners International, an incorporated nonprofit in California, based at Canyon, Texas.
