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American Camp — San Juan Island NHP

Friday Harbor, WA

This landscape preserves the U.S. side of the 1859 'Pig War,' an international crisis triggered after an American settler shot a British-owned pig. Trails and interpretation explain how an absurd animal dispute nearly became a military conflict.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/sajh/learn/historyculture/the-pig-war.htm

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