Generations of high-school graduates and marrying couples here have prized the pearly stones for their rings ... Ellensburg Blue,” said Steven Townsend, who buys and sells blues at his agate ...

In the windswept rangelands northwest of Ellensburg, a sky-blue gem awaits the most patient ... $80 dollars for small stones set in earrings to rings that cost $175. Store employee Laura Snider ...

Another blue, mounted in a ring, her husband discovered stuck in his horse’s hoof. Ellensburg blues seem to find people, rather than people finding them. Every year in April, after the snow ...

ELLENSBURG, Wash. - They have an otherworldly glow, often blue as the sky, but sometimes tinted with the lavender of twilight. And while there are other blue agates in the world, there is only one ...

Another blue, mounted in a ring, her husband discovered stuck in his horse’s hoof. Ellensburg blues seem to find people, rather than people finding them. Every year in April, after the snow ...