Over its three-year existence, the league featured six teams from six different cities in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington.
[2] At the end of the 1912 season, the Pendleton Buckaroos won the league championship with a .622 winning percentage.
[4][5][6] At the start of the 1913 season, it was announced that there would be an addition of two teams to the Western Tri-State League.
[7] The league had considered adding a team in Spokane, Washington, but ruled it out until the 1914 season.
[3] Early in the year, it was announced that two teams would be dropped from the league, to make it more economically effective to run the circuit.
[3] The teams that were cut were the newly formed Baker City Golddiggers, and the established Pendleton Buckaroos.
[3] They were followed by the Boise Irrigators (40–23) in second, the Pendleton Buckaroos in third (31–29), and the North Yakima Braves (30–34) in fourth.
[3] During the second half of the season, the Boise club took home the pennant, finishing with a 32–22 record.
[9][10][11][12] Before the start of the 1914 season, it was announced that the Boise Irrigators were leaving the Western Tri-State League, and joining the Union Association.
[3] Four players in the league that season had an MLB appearance some time in their professional career.