- Spokane County — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
Spokane County is the most populous county in mainly rural Eastern Washington and home to the second largest city in the state. After settlement in the 1870s, Spokane became the hub for the mining, timber, and railroad industries of the Inland Northwest…
- Whetstone River (Wikipedia)
The Whetstone River is a 12.7-mile-long (20.4 km) tributary of the Minnesota River, in northeastern South Dakota and a very small portion of western Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.