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| Pub. date | Headline | Region & County | Decades | Hashtags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023.03.01 | Body-snatchers dug up ex-mayor's corpse, planning to hold it for ransom | PDX METRO Multnomah &al. |
1890s | #DanielMagone #CharlesMontgomery #WilliamLadd #WilliamRector #EdwardLong #RiverViewCemetery #MedicalCollege #ResurrectionMen #KerryTymchuk #WickedWest #GraveRobbingGhouls #Rheinpfalz #HiramHall #CiceroHuntLewis #AshleyKorslein #TelephoneTap #LakeOswego #Blacksmith #GeorgeBrownell #PanicOf1893 #Insanity |
| 2023.02.01 | Oregon Territory residents had a 10-month head start on California Gold Rush | STATEWIDE |
1840s | #BeaverMoney #Honolulu #ProvisionalGovernment #OregonCity #GeorgeAbernethy #GoldDust #California #Miners |
| 2023.01.01 | Oregon's land-fraud swindlers thoroughly plundered the state | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion &al. |
1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #Timberlands #SwampLands #StephenPuter #FrancisHeney #JohnHMitchell #Looters #LandOfficeBusiness #HomesteadAct #LandFraudKing #TheodoreRoosevelt #BadApple #Bribery #SwampLands #LieuLands #Surveyors #LandGrantUniversity #SchoolLands #DummyEntryman #GildedAge #EthanHitchcock #FrederickKribs #JohnWilliamson #BingerHermann #OliverTatom #FGYoung #SADPuter |
| 2022.12.01 | Blum-Dunbar gang smuggled opium by the shipload out of old Portland waterfront | PDX METRO Multnomah &al. |
1890s | #ClatsopCounty #ColumbiaCounty #NatBlum #WilliamDunbar #JamesLotan #BuncoKelley #YosukeMatsuoka #Opium #Smugglers #HaytianRepublic #Shanghaiing #Katalia #Trial #DrugBust #Earthquake #MerchantsSteamship #TurnerFlour #HumanTrafficking #Chinese #RobertGarthorn #NosyNeighbors #FakePlayingCards #DavidLu #MasaharuAno |
| 2022.11.01 | Yosuke “Frank” Matsuoka: The ex-Oregonian who helped start World War II | PDX METRO Multnomah &al. |
1890s, 1900s, 1940s | #LaneCounty #ButterflyEffect #ImperialJapan #Nazis #WW2 #UO #Opium #WarCrimes #ManchuriaIncident #Versailles #Hiroshima #Hitler #HaytianRepublic #Chinese #Portland #LambertDunbar #JamesLotan #Versailles #LeagueOfNations #HidekiTojo #PearlHarbor #Tuberculosis #DavidLu #MasaharuAno #MeganBrenan |
| 2022.10.01 | Oregon’s bloody two-month-long manhunt for ‘king of western outlaws’ (Harry Tracy) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1900s | #HarryTracy #DavidMerrill #ButchCassidy #Shootout #StatePen #Jailbreak #Portland #BuncoKelley #HarrySeverns #HighwayRobbery#OregonBoot #DavidKrajicek #StewartHolbrook #WildBunch #WhoseCorpse #Prison |
| 2022.09.01 | Former Oregon City whorehouse is a national historical treasure today (McLoughlin House) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Clackamas |
1840s, 1900s | #JohnMcLoughlin #Marguerite #OregonTerritory #FortVancouver #HudsonsBayCo #PhoenixHotel #WillametteFalls #OregonCity #EvaEmeryDye #SingerHill #Bordello #EGCaufield #HawleyPulpAndPaper #WCarll #OregonTrail #HerbertBeaver #Chautauqua #VaraCaufield #SheriBartlettBrown #RichardMatthews |
| 2022.08.01 | In lieu of prison, murder-case convict was auctioned off as a temporary slave | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Polk |
1850s | #CyreniusHooker #Murder #HiramEverman #ReturnEverman #Crime #Burglary #Frontier #Dallas #Indenture #Prison #Cynthian #OregonTrail #SamuelGoff #DavidCoe #GoldRush #EnochSmith #Posse #TheodorePrather #GeorgeCurry #MyrtleCreek #ThomasBranigar #ScottMcArthur |
| 2022.07.01 | During the war, Oregonians built 50 aircraft carriers in less than 18 months | COLUMBIA RIVER Multnomah |
1940s | #HenryKaiser #LibertyShips #CasablancaClass #EscortCarriers #CVE #WWII #Portland #Shipyards #Vancouver #Vanport #LST #AlazonBay #KaiserJeeps #BattleOffSamar #Taffy3 #WW2 #ScotMacDonald #WilliamYBlood |
| 2022.06.01 | Deadly ’64 tsunami killed four, did a lot of damage in Oregon | COAST Lincoln |
1960s | #Alaska #GoodFridayQuake #TidalWave #Disasters #Fatal #Earthquake #Cascadia #Megathrust #RogueWave |
| 2022.05.01 | Is treasure of lucky beach-gold miners still out there, hidden in the woods? | COAST Coos &al. |
1840s | #DouglasCounty #Randolph #GoldRush #GoldBeach #BlackSand #WhiskeyRun #LostGold #BuriedTreasure #Mining #Coast #CoquilleRiver #PistolRiver |
| 2022.04.01 | Oregon’s biggest uranium mine found by an amateur rockhound-hobbyist | OUTBACK Lake |
1950s | #Lakeview #ColdWar #Atomic #Nuclear #Mining #GoldRush #MidCentury #WhiteKing #LuckyLass #GeigerCounter #Superfund #Cleanup |
| 2022.03.01 | Meetings were like summer camp for grown-ups (Gladstone and Ashland Chautauqua) | PDX METRO Clackamas &al. |
1910s | #JosephineCounty #LinnCounty #Gladstone #Ashland #ProgressiveEra #Bible #Beehive #Education #Culture #SelfHelp #ExtensionService #College #EvaEmeryDye |
| 2022.02.01 | Lost-cabin treasure tales tantalize gold seekers in Oregon backcountry | SOUTHERN Jackson &al. |
1910s | #Outback #WascoCounty #Applegate #SteamboatMountain #Gold #BuriedTreasure #Mining #CentralPoint #Stagecoach #Robbery #WellsFargo #TheDalles |
| 2022.01.01 | “Shoestring railroad” beat the mighty Southern Pacific in Coos Bay Railway fight | COAST RANGE Coos &al. |
1910s | #LaneCounty #Eugene #Marshfield #NorthBend #SouthCoast #SouthernPacific #GreatNorthern #CoosBayRailLine #RealEstate |
| 2021.12.01 | Is a lost ledge of rocks worth $400 a bucket still out there? (The Lost Soldiers’ Mine) | SOUTHERN Douglas &al. |
1850s | #CurryCounty #PortOrford #CoquilleMountains #CivilWar #LostLedge #Gold #CowCreek #BuriedTreasure #LostMine #RogueRiver |
| 2021.11.01 | Legend of Portuguese buried treasure likely started as a true story | COAST Tillamook |
1840s | #NehalemRiver #RubyElHult #TillamookMine #Shipwreck #Commune #Gold #GalesCreek #HudsonsBayCo #Indians #BuriedTreasure |
| 2021.10.01 | Astoria is rich in legends of lost gold and hidden treasure | COAST Clatsop |
1890s, 1920s | #AstoriaColumn #CoxcombHill #Goonies #Pirate #Loot #Gold #FlavelHouse #ColumbiaRiverBar #Marine #GeorgeFlavel #HatchetHarry |
| 2021.09.01 | OSU’s record-setting hen sparked “fowl” feud with eugenicist newspaper editor | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton &al. |
1910s, 1920s | #LaneCounty #Corvallis #OSU #CottageGroveLeader #LadyMacDuff #Hens #EggLaying #Racism #Eugenics #BigChicken #JamesDryden #PoultryShows |
| 2021.08.01 | Sordid Portland slasher murder was baffling 100 years ago, and still is today | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1920s | #HarryAgee #LouiseAgee #GrimWidow #Razor #Throat #Burglary #Ozarks #CagedTigress #Trombone #LoveTriangle #PantingVixen |
| 2021.07.01 | Nationally famous writer Stewart Holbrook captured spirit of mid-century Oregon | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s | #MidCentury #Logging #Literature #PopHistory #Writer #Character #Vermont #RiverPig #MrOtis #JamesBlaine #Mackinaw #Mercury #Hols |
| 2021.06.01 | Hoard of gold in shipwrecked yacht piqued the FBI's interest a day too late | COAST Lincoln |
1970s | #Waldport #Newport #USCG #Sailboat #Yacht #Rescue #Gold #Shipwreck #ThomasMcAdams #PortOrford #Hypothermia #Heroes #CoastGuard #BosunsMate #MLB |
| 2021.05.01 | Citizens of Boring hired world-champion boxer to humiliate the town bully | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1900s, 1910s | #ClackamasCounty #FreeColdwell #JimCroce #BarFighter #Boring #Bluto #TommyBurns #NoahBrusso #WorldChampion #TownBully #Boxing |
| 2021.04.01 | Frankie Baker of 'Frankie and Johnny' fame was hiding from “her song” in Portland | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s | #FrankieBaker #Ragtime #Bordellos #Jazz #Music #PianoProfessors #AllenBritt #NellieBly #MaeWest #Murder #FrankieAndJohnny |
| 2021.03.01 | Oregonians played a prominent role in the 1930s’ horrific “Trunk Murders” | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion County |
1930s | #Phoenix #AnnieLeRoi #SammySamuelson #DrWilliamJudd #WinnieRuthJudd #Opium #LoveTriangle #Railroads #Unsolved #Dismembered |
| 2021.02.01 | Coos Bay shipwreck became the scene of a massive, drunken looting party | COAST Coos |
1910s | #Marshfield #NorthBend #SalvageRights #SantaClara #Steamship #Prohibition #Fatal #Looters #Pirates #WhiskeyGalore |
| 2021.01.01 | On the lam from the FBI? Hide out in a small, friendly Oregon town! | COAST RANGE Clatsop &al. |
1940s, 1950s | #PDXmetro #WashingtonCounty #FBIMostWanted #Outlaws #KEX #CowboyJimWilliams #KenVanKampen #GangBusters #Fugitives |
| 2020.12.01 | Portland’s rabbi got in a gunfight at President Rutherford B. Hayes’ hotel (Rabbi Moses May) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s | #RutherfordBHayes #BethIsrael #Reform #Orthodox #Jews #Minhag #Ashkenazi #Synagogue #MosesMay #IsaacMayerWise |
| 2020.11.01 | U.S. Supreme Court decided slavery was legal, but only for sailors | COAST Clatsop |
1890s | #ArgoFour #Union #SupremeCourt #13thAmendment #SeamensUnion #RobertsonVsBaldwin SeamensAct #Constitution #Astoria |
| 2020.10.01 | Ain't no party like a shanghaiing party: One sudden sailor's story (Aquilla Ernest Clark) | COAST Multnomah &al. |
1890s, 1910s | #ClatsopCounty #Astoria #Portland #LarrySullivan #AquillaErnestClark #BuncoKelley #Shanghaied #Riverboat #Party #Astoria #Hookers #Waterfront #Scappoose #SailorsBoardinghouse #Iralda #PeachBlow #PortlandHotel #TFOakes #ShipsArticles #StewartHolbrook #BarneyBlalock |
| 2020.09.01 | Boss shanghaier Larry Sullivan's second career as a legendary mining-stock swindler | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #ClatsopCounty #GoldfieldNevada #SullivanTrustCo #GeorgeGrahamRice #GrantBros #Gambling #HorseRacing #Shanghaiing #GansVsNelson #GoldMines #Boxing #FixedBoxingMatch #Prizefighters #PortlandClub #WarrenZevon #MaximAndGay #MyAdventuresYourMoney #TexRickard #JackalOfWallStreet #BarneyBlalock |
| 2020.08.01 | “Cable-car” service to Timberline Lodge: A city bus dangling from a logging cable | CASCADE RANGE Hood River &al. |
1920s, 1930s, 1950s | #ClackamasCounty #TimberlineLodge #USFS #Skyscraper #Aerial #Tramway #CloudCapInn #Skiway #MazamaClub #FlyingBuses #WPA #GoodRoads #MountHoodScenicLoop #LLWyler #WBGreeley #JOttoGeorge #SkylineLogging #CityBus #TracklessTrolley #GeorgeRausch #JudithRose #LindsayBenjamin #OHS |
| 2020.07.01 | Newcomer's stinginess with beach access led to massive drug bust | COAST Coos |
1970s | #DrugSmuggling #Steamship #DUKW #BeachBill #LARC-V #NewRiver #StormRanch #Heart #Biggest #DrugBust #Cannabis |
| 2020.06.01 | Roseburg dentist killed man with dynamite, mailed panties to Seattle, fled (1 of 2) | SOUTHERN Douglas |
1920s | #DrRichardBrumfield #DennisRussell #CarFire #Corpse #SilkPanties #NormanWhitney #Suicide #Dillard #Dynamite #ForensicDentistry #Moonshine #Explosions #Lingerie #Calgary #MazamaClub #HumanFoot |
| 2020.06.01 | Box of sexy lingerie got runaway Roseburg dynamite murderer-dentist caught (2 of 2) | SOUTHERN Douglas |
1920s | #DrRichardBrumfield #SilkPanties #Dynamite #Lingerie #Calgary #LynchMob #LadiesMan #Letters #FalseConfession #ClaraKillam #DragQueens #WalterEvans #KuKluxKlan #SuicideByCop #SuspiciousSuicide #ColdCases |
| 2020.05.01 | Oregon’s wildest lost-cabin gold mine story may be true … but probably not | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1850s, 1860s, 1890s | #SamSimpson #RogueIndians #ShastaIndians #Ghost #Skeletons #BuriedTreasure #Poetry #OregonNativeSonMagazine |
| 2020.04.01 | Newport railroad tycoon T.E. Hogg's war record: Highway robbery on the high seas | COAST Lincoln |
1860s, 1870s | #TEdgentonHogg #CivilWar #Confederate #NewGranada #CunningPlan #Railroad #Jailbird #Yaquina #Pirates #Privateers #Alcatraz |
| 2020.03.01 | Legendary Oregon prospector's death sparked two “Lost Gold Mine” legends | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1870s, 1880s, 1890s | #EdSchieffelin #Tombstone #GoldMiner #LostCabinGold #LostRedBlanketMine #StewartHolbrook #TreasureMap #BuriedTreasure |
| 2020.02.01 | The legendary Great Sea Serpent of the Columbia River Bar was lamely named “Colossal Claude” | COAST Clatsop |
1930s, 1940s | #ColossalClaude #Cryptids #Rose #Lightship #Viv #Argo #SeaMonster #Plesiosaurids #ColumbiaRiverBar #Bigfoot #DevilsChurn |
| 2020.01.01 | With a friend like A.C. Edmunds, early suffragists needed no enemies! | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1860s, 1870s | #Portland #TemperanceCrusaders #Suffrage #Unitarian #Abolitionist #Unions #WTPL #WCTU #VotersBookOfRemembrance |
| 2019.12.29 | Grahams’ “Yellow Stack Line” epitomized steamboat era | PDX METRO Clackamas &al. |
1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #MultnomahCounty #OregonCity #Grahamona #YellowStackLine #Altona #Oregona #Sternwheelers #Flood #PassengerService #Hops #Canemah |
| 2019.12.22 | West Coast once the Detroit of the marine-engine industry | COAST Clatsop |
1900s, 1910s | #Astoria #Fishboats #ColumbiaRiverBar #GasolineEngines #Gillnetters #UnionGasEngineCo #Salmon #Cannery #Bowpickers |
| 2019.12.15 | Asahel Bush crossed swords with Oregon’s first woman doc, lost | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1850s, 1860s | #Salem #FirstWoman #Hydropathy #WaterCure #Lecturer #Reformer #HygienicMedicine #Homeopathy #Allopaths #Vegetarians |
| 2019.12.08 | Neighbor’s theft of widow and orphans’ home too much for jury | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton |
1850s | #BentonCounty #SoapCreekValley #Corvallis #Slavery #LetitiaCarson #Homestead #GreenberrySmith #Lawsuit #FirstBlack #Rustlers #Williams |
| 2019.12.01 | How Abe Tichner hustled the rubes at 1870s county fairs | PDX METRO Washington |
1870s, 1880s | #Portland #MultnomahCounty #Tichner #OswaldWest #Cigars #Havana #PPD #CountyFair #PatentMedicine #Gamblers #Swindle |
| 2019.11.24 | Mayors Lee, Schrunk set tone for Portland’s mid-century modern era (Part 3 of 3) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1940s, 1950s, 1960s | #Portland #Mayors #Corruption #CityHall #Lane #ProgressiveEra #Vice #Reform #FirstWoman #Teamsters #Elkins |
| 2019.11.17 | In 1800s Portland, at least one mayor paid to play (Part 2 of 3) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s, 1890s | #Portland #CityHall #Corruption #Bribery #Chapman #Besser #Lappeus #Pennoyer #BullRun #Williams #Starvation #Cult |
| 2019.11.10 | Frontier-era mayors were a surprisingly dramatic bunch (Part 1 of 3) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1860s, 1870s, 1880s | #Portland #Vaughan #Lappeus #McCormick #Hoyt #Rosenheim #Simon #Thompson #Bettors #Gambling #Corruption #CityHall |
| 2019.11.03 | Skill and a stout ship kept U.S.S. Peacock shipwreck fatality-free | COAST Clatsop |
1840s | #ColumbiaRiverBar #USN #PeacockSpit #SailingShip #ManOfWar #Shipwreck #CapeDisappointment #Rescue |
| 2019.10.27 | Oregon’s first murder convict saved from gallows by his wife | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton |
1850s | #BentonCounty #Marysville #Corvallis #NimrodOKelley #Corvallis #HomesteadAct #Murder #Gunfight #SupremeCourt #GovernorPardons |
| 2019.10.20 | Law in frontier Oregon was rough, but not always ready | COAST RANGE Tillamook &al. |
1850s, 1860s, 1870s | #WILLAMETTE #PolkCounty #WashingtonTerritory #DumbCrooks #Jailbreak #Yeggs #Safecrackers #CriminalJustice #Vigilantes |
| 2019.10.13 | Battleship U.S.S. Oregon lost in Pearl Harbor attack — sort of | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s, 1900s, 1940s | #Portland #Waterfront #SpanishAmericanWar #Bulldog #GreatWhiteFleet #PreDreadnought #MuseumShip #Scrap #WorldWarII |
| 2019.10.06 | Brothel madam’s sidekicks were bad at corpse disposal | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s | #Portland #CarrieBradley #Brothels #ConcreteShoes #Murder #Chloroform #DeadBody #BrassKnuckles #Opium #Trial |
| 2019.09.29 | Carrie Bradley was the Brigid O’Shaughnessy of old Portland | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s, 1880s | #Portland #FemmeFatale #CarrieBradley #Hookers #Bordellos #Murder #CourtOfDeath #ChiefLappeus #BadGirls #NorthEnd |
| 2019.09.22 | West Coast’s first published novel a torrid page-turner | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Clackamas &al. |
1830s, 1840s | #YamhillCounty #FrenchPrairie #MargaretJewettBailey #RuthRover #Notorious #BadGirls #StormyPetrel #Divorcee #Authoress #PioneeringWomen |
| 2019.09.15 | Oregon’s literary legacy built on a “True Confession” novel | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion &al. |
1850s, 1860s | #ClackamasCounty #FrenchPrairie #MargaretJewettBailey #RuthRover #First #Journalist #Novelist #JasonLee #BadReputation #Willson #Methodists |
| 2019.09.08 | Horse racing, and race fixing, used to be wildly popular | OUTBACK Malheur &al. |
1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #HarneyCounty #JordanValley #Bookies #Thoroughbreds #CayusePony #Hookers #HomerDavenport #Gamblers #Cartoonists #Bettors #Wagers |
| 2019.09.01 | Cape Kiwanda dory fleet launches into teeth of breakers | Coast Tillamook |
1910s, 1920s, present | #PacificCity #LeeShore #GrandBanks #CapeKiwanda #PortOrford #ChiefKiawandaRock #PacificCityDorymensAssociation |
| 2019.08.25 | Haystack Rock was once a target for daredevil climbers | COAST Clatsop |
1940s, 1950s, 1960s | #CannonBeach #Helicopters #Rescue #DeadBabyBirds #RockClimbing #Dynamite #OregonIslandsWildlifeSanctuary #BirdNests |
| 2019.08.18 | Eugene’s first university died when president started gunfight | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1850s, 1860s | #LaneCounty #Eugene #ColumbiaCollege #UniversityOfOregon #JoaquinMiller #CivilWar #Slavery #Confederates #Arson #PacificHerald #Kincaid |
| 2019.08.11 | Oregon’s “Miner 29ers” beat Depression with a gold pan | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1930s | #SouthernOregon #GoldMines #MiningClaims #Prospectors #Depression #Unemployment #OffTheGrid #CabinLife #BankHoliday #KerbyJackson |
| 2019.08.04 | Mining law a response to plot to seize gold mines with troops | SOUTHERN Jackson &al. |
1860s, 1870s | #GoldCountry #WashingtonDC #GoldMines #Confederates #CivilWar #MiningClaims #Prospectors #Capitol #GoldRush #Laws #MiningActOf1872 #Suffrage |
| 2019.07.28 | Chasing a rumor, prospectors turned backs on a fortune twice | CASCADE RANGE Grant |
1860s | #GrantCounty #PrairieCity #Prospectors #Aldred #GoldRush #Bannocks #Cayuse #GoldMining #Auburn #PrairieDiggingsMine #DecomposedQuartz |
| 2019.07.21 | “Lobster trap for bootleggers” was a huge but costly success | COAST Tillamook |
1920s | #DrHuckleberry #Garibaldi #Movies #Hollywood #Fake #Prohibition #OnLocation #LawEnforcement #Lighthouse #Oceanside |
| 2019.07.14 | Was the Bridge of the Gods a real thing? Almost certainly | COLUMBIA RIVER Hood River |
1450s | #UndergroundRiver #EdgarRiceBurroughs #Indians #Legends #Folklore #Landslide #ColumbiaRiverGorge #CascadeLocks #NaturalBridge |
| 2019.07.07 | How a banana peel changed the course of Oregon history | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion &al. |
1910s | #MultnomahCounty #Salem #OswaldWest #HarryLane #Governor #BeachBill #LandFraud #Democrats #ProgressiveEra #Reformers #Election #Politics |
| 2019.06.30 | Surge of confederate refugees made big changes in Oregon politics | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1860s | #Salem #CivilWar #Confederate #Missouri #Slavery #Supermajority #SouthernDemocrats #14thAmendment #Williams #Corbett |
| 2019.06.23 | “Hold-Up Session” of 1896-97 featured a giant house party | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1890s | #Salem #HoldUpSession #JonathanBourne #JohnMitchell #Hipple #EldridgeBlock #FreeSilver #WilliamUren #Corruption #Vice |
| 2019.06.16 | Bungling attempt by old crimps marked end of shanghaiing era | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #Portland #Waterfront #MysteriousBillySmith #Crimps #JostBros #JumboRiley #BuncoKelley #ShanghaiWhite #Boxers |
| 2019.06.09 | Oregon tried to regulate crimps with monopoly for worst one | PDX METRO Clatsop &al. |
1900s | #MultnomahCounty #Portland #Waterfront #LarrySullivan #MysteriousBilly #WhiteBros #GrantBros #Crimps #Capitol #Corrruption #Boxers |
| 2019.06.02 | Mysterious Billy Smith: World champion boxer by day, shanghaier by night | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #Portland #Waterfront #MysteriousBillySmith #Crimps #LarrySullivan #VoterFraud #ShanghaiWhite #GrantBros #Prizefighters |
| 2019.05.26 | Portland’s “Shanghai Tunnels”: Mostly myth, but not entirely | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s | #Portland #Waterfront #Folklore #MichaelJones #NorthEnd #TransitBank #Hobos #Opium #Prohibition #PortlandSeawall #OldTown |
| 2019.05.19 | “Diamond Bill” Barrett was the Heiress Whisperer: Oregon's own "Mr. Wickham" | PDX METRO Washington |
1910s | #WashingtonCounty #Hillsboro #JaneAusten #GeorgeWickham #Gamblers #Rake #Hustler #AliceDrexel #SidiWirtSpreckels #MissingPearls #GoldDigger |
| 2019.05.12 | Life station keeper’s cowardice cost 11 sailors their lives | COAST Coos |
1880s | #CapeArago #USCG #Lifestation #Fatal #Shipwreck #SSTacoma #Desmond #DoryFishermen #Rescue #CoosBay #ChandlerBWatson |
| 2019.05.05 | Ship captain doubled down on ill-considered wager … and lost | COAST Lincoln |
1890s | #Offshore #TillicumBeach #SailingShips #Fatal #Shipwrecks #Waldport #Lifestation #Racing #Atalanta #FullRigger #Windjammer |
| 2019.04.28 | Lava Lake murders are still officially unsolved, but … (Part 2 of 2) | CASCADE RANGE Deschutes |
1920s | #LakeCounty #LavaLakes #CharlesHydeKimzey #Ambush #Carjacking #LastChanceRanch #Trappers #Cabin #Conviction #ColdCase |
| 2019.04.21 | Trappers’ disappearance had relative suspecting foul play (Part 1 of 2) | CASCADE RANGE Deschutes |
1920s | #LakeCounty #LavaLakes #MothersIntuition #MissingPersons #USMC #Loggers #CharlesHydeKimzey #RayVanBurenJackson #Murder #ColdCase |
| 2019.04.14 | Old-time loggers, millworkers were tough, stoic characters | COAST RANGE Tillamook |
1920s, 1930s, 1940s | #DrHuckleberry #Garibaldi #Sawmill #Amputations #WorkplaceInjuries #Dynamite #BackToWork #MissingFingers #Medicine |
| 2019.04.07 | Skunk’s “beautiful pelt” woulda been best admired from afar | COAST RANGE Tillamook |
1920s | #DrHuckleberry #Garibaldi #Loggers #Trappers #Snoose #SideHustles #Bootleggers #Moonshine #BearAttacks #Tobacco #Stills |
| 2019.03.31 | “Prepaid shanghaiing” plot went off the rails — fatally | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s | #Portland #Waterfront #JimTurk #FrederickKalashua #Racism #Crimps #Sailors #Carpenter #Boardinghouse #Opium #Overdose |
| 2019.03.23 | Umatilla mayor’s wife had an ‘election-day surprise’ for him | COLUMBIA RIVER Umatilla |
1910s | #UmatillaCounty #LauraStarcher #CityHall #ProgressiveEra #Suffrage #PetticoatGovernment #Surprise #Underdog #Cleanup #SmallTown |
| 2019.03.17 | Letter from afar gave man's family a view to a shanghaiing | COAST Clatsop |
1880s | #Astoria #Crimps #GrantBros #CarrollBeebe #Sailors #Boardinghouse #BloodMoney #Shanghaiers #Corruption #Swindlers |
| 2019.03.10 | Shyster lawyer planned to steal man’s land by shanghaiing him | COAST Clatsop |
1890s | #Astoria #DariusNorris #Browning #Murder #PoliceChief #Corruption #CityHall #Lawyers #Jail #LarrySullivan #BloodMoney #Crimps |
| 2019.03.03 | Old-time country doctors led colorful and interesting lives | COAST Tillamook |
1920s, 1930s | #Garibaldi #DrHuckleberry #Floods #Hearses #HouseCalls #HudsonCars #Pneumonia #Tobacco #Ambulances #DrRobertBoles |
| 2019.02.23 | “Temperance Crusade” failed when leaders got too preachy (Part 4 of 4) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s | #Portland #StreetBattle #Jail #Police #Corruption #CityHall #AbigailScottDuniway #ACEdmunds #DirtyTricks #Syphilis |
| 2019.02.17 | Riot at saloon led to charges … but not against the rioters (Part 3 of 4) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s | #Portland #WomensTemperancePrayerLeague #Riots #JamesLappeus #FrancesFullerVictor #Mob #PortlandPolice #Arrested |
| 2019.02.10 | Stubborn saloonkeeper wouldn't play nice with crusading ladies (Part 2 of 4) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s | #Portland #Liquor #Gambling #Prostitution #Crusade #Temperance #Pickets #WalterMoffett #WebfootSaloon #Bulletin #Sin |
| 2019.02.03 | Portland’s “Temperance War of 1874”: The backstory (Part 1 of 4) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s | #Portland #Victorians #WCTU #SalvationArmy #SaloonCulture #Alcohol #Suffrage #Evangelism #Churches #Women |
| 2019.01.27 | Plain-talking “Uncle Joab” too blunt for Legislature’s comfort (Part 2 of 2) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1850s, 1860s | #LinnCounty #Salem #Capitol #Legislature #Firsts #Saloons #Vice #Senate #VictorTrevitt #CircuitRiders #Vaudeville #JoabPowell |
| 2019.01.20 | “Uncle Joab” Powell was West’s most famous pioneer preacher (Part 1 of 2) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1850s, 1860s | #LinnCounty #Salem #Crabtree #ProvidencePioneerChurch #Baptist #CircuitRiders #JoabPowell #TentRevivals #Legislature |
| 2019.01.13 | Sheepman’s disappearance may be Oregon’s oldest cold case | OUTBACK Crook |
1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #CrookCounty #Prineville #Sheepshooters #RangeWar #UnsolvedMystery #Murder #MissingPerson #LeonidasDouris #LandTheft #Vigilantes #ShortyDavis |
| 2019.01.06 | Filming of “worst Western” was an unforgettable spectacle | OUTBACK &al. Lane &al. |
1960s | #CascadeRange #LakeCounty #Eugene #Movies #TheWayWest #McKenzie #FortRock #CrookedRiverBob #Jaycees #Hollywood #HeavensGate |
| 2018.12.30 | Joe Knowles, the “Bear Grylls of the 1910s,” had something to prove | SOUTHERN Josephine |
1910s | #Siskiyous #NakedAndAfraid #NatureMan #WilliamRandolphHearst #BostonPost #MountainMan #Scandal #Cheating #Famous #Artist #PoisonOak #Eugenics |
| 2018.12.23 | Summer shipwreck adventure couldn’t happen today | COAST Multnomah |
1930s | #ClatsopCounty #SummerVacation #Bicycle #AdmiralBenson #PeacockSpit #Shipwreck #ColumbiaRiverBar #Rescue #USCG #RoadTrip #Tide #LifeStations #Astoria #Ilwaco #BreechesBuoy #StanAllyn #WallyStenlake #JamesGibbsJr #DarylMcClary |
| 2018.12.16 | Ka-Ton-Ka was Oregon’s own patent-medicine sensation — well, sort of | CASCADE RANGE Jefferson |
1880s | #WarmSprings #IndianReservation #DonaldMcKay #OregonIndianMedicine #BuffaloBill #PatentMedicine #WildWest #Vaudeville #MedicineShow #KaTonKa #ColonelTAEdwards #ModocIndians #CaptainJack #KickapooIndianSagwa #OperaHouses #Vaudeville #BrooksMcNamara #KeithClark #DonnaClark |
| 2018.12.09 | Dry town’s sting on drugstore’s secret saloon didn’t go well | PDX METRO Washington |
1890s | #ForestGrove #PacificUniversity #Prohibition #JamaicaGinger #Drugstore #LawAndOrder #Arson #Temperance #WCTU #ThomasTongue #Liquor #CongregationalChurch #Cornelius #MillersPioneerPharmacy #ThomasMcClelland #LawAndOrderLeague #Entrapment #KenBilderback #KrisBilderback |
| 2018.12.02 | Klamath County’s squabble over courthouses wasted $3.1 million | SOUTHERN Klamath |
1900s | #CountySeat #HotSprings #GraftAndCorruption #Linkville #CountyJail #KlamathFalls #WilliamWorden #MarionHanks #JMDouganConstruction #RobertBunnell #DavidBraly #GeoffHill #KurtLiedtke #AnnDuPont #TooManyCourthouses |
| 2018.11.25 | Dynamite killing a sordid love triangle gone bad | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1950s | #OliverKermitSmith #MarjorieSmith #Murder #CarBomb #VictorWolf #SidePiece #Vamp #SexSlave #Swingers #Alaska #Homesteaders #ToDieFor #InsuranceFraud #Adultery #ColumbiaEdgewater #CountryClub #StumpingPowder #PussyWillowMurder #Molalla #Ridgefield #JBFisher |
| 2018.11.19 | Range-wars veteran put Oregon on map as sheep country | OUTBACK Wasco |
1890s, 1900s | #HayCreekRanch #JackEdwards #Wool #SheepKing #Shaniko #RangeWars #DrBaldwin #Homesteaders #Sheepshooters #USFS #USSR |
| 2018.11.11 | Pro-tip: Model T engines make lousy airplane motors | CASCADE RANGE Deschutes |
1930s | #TedBarber #Waco #StormsFlyingFlivver #Homebuilt #Biplane #Barnstormer #Bend #Prineville #Glider #Barnstorming #FlightSchool #Aviation |
| 2018.11.04 | Is Central Oregon’s lost crystal cave just a legend? | CASCADE RANGE Deschutes |
1890s, 1900s | #Burns #LaPine #HighDesert #Mining #LavaCaves #Cowboys #MelanyTupper #ShonquestRanch #CrystalCave #ArnoldIceCave #CentralOregonGrotto #Vandalism #MarjorieSmith #NicholasSmith #CattleDrive #AubreyPerry #NewtCobb #LarryChitwood #PattiWood #BrentMcGregor #MattSkeels |
| 2018.10.28 | Portland’s play to beat The Dalles literally cost a mint | COLUMBIA RIVER Wasco |
1860s | #GoldRush #Mining #GriffinGulch #MintBuilding #CivilWar #Cascades #Freebridge #Fire #CarsonCity #USTreasury #BrotherJonathan #CoinCollecting #GriffinGulch #WhiskeyGulch #JamesNesmith #WilliamLogan #BrentZimmerman |
| 2018.10.21 | Stubborn citizen Richard Chambers got nation’s first bottle bill passed | COAST Tillamook |
1970s | #Nudge #Litter #KeepOregonGreen #Returnable #BeerBottles #Deposit #RichardChambers #TomMcCall #NestuccaSpit #Bribery #SOLV #MerchantMarines #CleanUpPollutionAward #VictoriaBerger #BrentWalth #PaulHanneman #BettyRoberts #TedHallock #MarkHenkels |
| 2018.10.14 | Dead Oregon hero-doctor had his identity stolen by serial swindler | COAST Coos |
1910s | #DrRichardBarber #DrJeanBarber #HarryVirtue #UnlicensedVeterinarian #Con #Gardiner #Florence #Siltcoos #Liverpool #EscapeAttempt #WW1 #WinchesterBay #Tenmile #GlenadaFerry #SpanishAmericanWar #Malaria #Sheridan #Yoncalla #Hypothermia #Treeton #DrHenryBond #Brazil #Fugitive #DrHarrySiddons #JeffreySmith |
| 2018.10.07 | Linn County had a bloody holiday season in 1895 | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1890s | #Jordan #EmmaHannah #Loyal #LloydMontgomery #Brownsville #LottieHiatt #PistolWhip #Asylum #Parricide #BadSeed #Hanging #NoPardon #Adultery #Winchester40-86 #LofaHiatt #JohnHannah #JohnAndElizabethMontgomery #OrvilleMontgomery #DanielMcKercher #DianeGoeresGardner #GovWilliamLord |
| 2018.09.30 | Oregon is only state where jury need not be unanimous | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1930s | #Jewish #Bootleggers #Gun #Accidental #JuryTampering #Ethnic #Suppression #Jurors #JakeSilverman #ShyFrankKodat #RoyMoore #Gangsters #Underworld #Speakeasy #Bordello #38Special #JimmyWalker #EdithMcClain #Prison #Jailbirds #ShotInTheBack #StudebakerPresident #Scappoose #Portland #TakenForARide |
| 2018.09.23 | Bootleggers’ buddies’ midnight-jailbreak a fail (Part 2 of 2) | COAST RANGE Lincoln |
1930s | #Prohibition #Rumrunners #Canadians #Jailbreak #Toledo #WhaleCove #Shipwreck #Gangsters #OSP #RoadTrip #Liquor #Fail #Smugglers #BuickCoupe #MachineGun #Carrick #PaulRemaley #SeaIsland #Canadians #StanAllyn #Bootleggers #CarCrash #CuttingTorch #Blowtorch |
| 2018.09.16 | Bootleggers' bad luck was "whiskey galore" for locals (Part 1 of 2) | COAST Lincoln |
1930s | #ProhibitionAgents #RumrunnerRock #WhiskeyGalore #SeaIsland #CunningPlan #WhaleCove #Shipwreck #Speakeasys #Liquor #Toledo #Smugglers #Hebo #Powerboat #Bootleggers #Canadians #Fire #BuriedTreasure #CarCrash #WilliamKerr #CharlesRyall #ArthurBabcock |
| 2018.09.09 | Bugs in a stump inspired invention of modern chainsaw | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1940s | #JoeCox #TimberWorms #Chisel #Logging #Salvage #TillamookBurn #Crosscut #MiseryWhip #Stihl #OmarkIndustries #BugChain #Timber #Inventors #TimberCruisers #EllisLucia #Engineers #GyppoLoggers |
| 2018.09.02 | First really portable chainsaw was invented in Oregon | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1920s | #Logging #Salvage #Electric #Crosscut #MiseryWhip #Stihl #CharlesWolf #Shipyard #Generator #Timber #Fallers #Inventors #Springboards #SubmarineDesign #FirstElectricSawmill #FrankRedman #Rakers |
| 2018.08.26 | Little-known activist stopped plan for forced sterilizations | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s | #Eugenics #Vaccination #Vax #BetheniaOwensAdair #ForcedSterilizationLaw #LoraLittle #Progressives #HumanRights #InitiativeAndReferendum #Allopathic #SocialHygiene #RaceSuicide #Journalism #Eugenics #LittleSchoolOfHealth #RobertJohnson #MarkLargent #LindaCurrey |
| 2018.08.19 | Heroism didn't save rumrunner-rescuers from prison terms | COAST Clatsop |
1920s | #Canadians #Rumrunners #Mayday #SOS #Caoba #Pescawah #Shipwreck #Rescue #SauvieIsland #Whiskey #Astoria #Prohibition #USCG #Riley |
| 2018.08.12 | “Temporary insanity” plea didn't work for murderess | SOUTHERN Josephine |
1870s | #Briggs #UnwrittenLaw #Insanity #Dalmater #Adultery #Schoolhouse #Murder #Prison #SuckerCreek #Seduction #Classroom |
| 2018.08.09 | Penn Phillips and the great Christmas Valley land-sales hustle | OUTBACK Lake |
1960s | #FortRock #SilverLake #Hesperia #SaltonSea #Rascals #Hustlers #Showmen #Promoters #HighDesert #RealEstate #ChristmasValleyLake #BaertLake |
| 2018.07.29 | 14-year-old girl ended family feud ... with a shotgun | COLUMBIA RIVER Clatsop |
1880s | #Manhattan #Astoria #Gillnetters #Clifton #Frishkorn #Gunderson #Udbye #Jilted #Shooting #Mobs #Gunfight #LowerColumbia #BadLove |
| 2018.07.22 | “Beeswax Wreck” mystery has been solved | COAST Tillamook |
1690s | #SanFranciscoXavier #SantoCristoDeBurgos #Galleon #Manila #Tsunami #BeeswaxWreckProject #NehalemSpit #Shipwreck #Treasure |
| 2018.07.15 | McMinnville UFO photos still hotly debated today | PDX METRO Yamhill |
1950s | #FlyingSaucer #Sheridan #McMinnville #Saucerville #Trent #CondonReport #UFOfestival #Xtheories #Folklore #Spaceship #Aviation #Newspapers #TV |
| 2018.07.08 | Flying Saucer stories got their start in Pendleton | OUTBACK Umatilla |
1940s | #UFOs #Xtheories #Spaceships #Aviation #PlaneCrash #Roswell #Arnold #MtRainier #USAF #Trent #UFOfestival #McMinnville #Airships #Newspapers |
| 2018.07.01 | Oregonians called BS on Cali papers' UFO stories | STATEWIDE | 1890s | #Spaceships #UFOs #Xtheories #Airships #FakeNews #Sacramento #Mars #MassHysteria #Punkd #Aviation #TomSwift #Newspapers |
| 2018.06.24 | Oregon was JFK's make-or-break state in the 1960 primary | STATEWIDE | 1960s | #Catholics #Democrats #Politics #Capitol #WayneMorse #JackOhman #POTUS #Campaigns #Kennedys |
| 2018.06.17 | Abigail Scott Duniway considered herself a novelist | PDX METRO Multnomah &al. |
1870s | #MarionCounty #Suffragists #Progressives #Advocacy #CaptainGraysCompany #Portland #TheNewNorthwest #SerialNovels #SoapOperas #FamousWomen |
| 2018.06.10 | White Eagle Saloon was once called America’s ‘worst nest of anarchists’ | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #Portland #Polish #McMenamins #Haunted #AssassinationPlot #Roosevelt #Lopasky #RussianAgent #Przywara #Anarchists #Bombings #USSS |
| 2018.06.03 | Berry Way hanging: Perry Mason meets Paint Your Wagon | NORTHEAST Grant |
1860s | #Canyon City #GrantCounty #Vigilante #Outlaw #Murder #LynchMob #PerryMason #PaintYourWagon #Hanging #Execution #Illegal |
| 2018.05.27 | U. of O. founding father Deady once its No. 1 opponent | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1870s | #Eugene #LaneCounty #UofO #LuckyBreak #University #College #MatthewDeady #FrederickDunn #KKK #Pharisee #Methodists #Episcopalians #OAC #OSU #WOU #RebeccaForce #MichaelSchill #UnionUniversityAssoc #LewisAndClarkCollege #PacificUniv |
| 2018.05.20 | Librarian's traitorous crime: Not lending the government money for war | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s | #WW1 #MassHysteria #Mobs #Portland #LibraryBoard #Hunt #Pacifist #WarBonds #Propaganda #Fistfight #Newspapers #RavishedByTheHuns |
| 2018.05.13 | A frontier Romeo and Juliet story, only with a murderer and a creepy hypno-twist | OUTBACK Baker |
1900s | #Armstrong #Ensminger #MuddyCreekSchool #Murder #Haines #Christmas #DanceHall #LynchMob #Hanging #BlueBeardFamily #Hypnotists #Paranormal |
| 2018.05.06 | Deadwood Dick's Oregon Adventures; or, Making Up Pulpy Hokum from Far Away | STATEWIDE Douglas |
1880s | #DimeNovels #DangerDucks #Roseberg #PulpFiction #BeadleBros #GoldBrick #LakeSylvan #LadySylvan #Minstrelsy #ShowBiz |
| 2018.04.29 | “Father of the Year” learned “Unwritten Law” didn’t cover murder of in-laws | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #Portland #AlfredLesterBelding #BadLove #Wifebeater #Shooting #UnwrittenLaw #Saloons #Gunfight #BadParent #Rake #Hanging |
| 2018.04.22 | Schooner sailed through a hurricane, full of water | COAST Clatsop |
1900s | #Offshore #LumberSchooner #Fatality #Weather #Shipwreck #Rescue #BadLuck #CoastGuard #SteamSchooner |
| 2018.04.15 | Murderers picked the wrong landlady to steal from | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #Portland #Murderers #Mugging #DumbCrooks #Hanging #Dalton #Wade #Boardinghouse #Saloon #Reward #Jail #Crime #Shooting |
| 2018.04.08 | Deadly shipwreck was luckiest break of injured sailor’s life | COAST Clatsop |
1890s | #ColumbiaRiverBar #WilliamBegg #Fatal #Shipwreck #Weather #LuckyBreak #Rescue #CRB #AbandonShip #LoveStory #Salvage |
| 2018.04.01 | Murderers wandered valley, desperate for an alibi | CASCADE RANGE Deschutes &al. |
1890s | #McKenzieValley #LaneCounty #DumbCrooks #Bonfire #Crackpot #Hanging #Execution #Rustling #Marriage #Horses #Perjury |
| 2018.03.25 | Mayor Baker's theatre defined pre-First-World-War Portland culture | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s, 1910s | #Portland #Rascals #NationallyFamous #ShowBiz #Culture #Vaudeville #Stage #Repertory #Saloons #Hollywood #Plays |
| 2018.03.18 | Free-love anarchist newspaper shut down for “smut” | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s | #Portland #Firebrand #FreeLove #ComstockLaws #Communists #FreeSpeech #Depression #Populism #Journalism #Marxists |
| 2018.03.11 | Slain man turned out to have been a creepy stalker | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1880s | #Albany #LinnCounty #MattieAllison #CharlesCampbell #WirtSaunders #Shooting #YellowJournalism #LynchMob #NotGuilty #BadLove #Rape |
| 2018.03.04 | Murderer faked catatonic state for almost two years | SOUTHERN Josephine |
1890s | #Kerby #CharlesFiester #DomesticAbuse #InsanityPlea #Jealousy #Hanging #Execution #UnwrittenLaw #BadLove #Catatonic |
| 2018.02.25 | Was legendary gold city of Quivira on the Oregon Coast? | COAST Curry |
1540s | #PortOrford #FlorasLake #Cortez #LostCity #Coronado #Gold #Conquistadors #Spanish #Explorers #SirFrancisDrake #WarCrimes #Myths |
| 2018.02.18 | Chinese man’s death may have prevented a “tong war” | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s | #Portland #Chinatown #Race #DimeNovels #Pulp #Mob #Chinese #Hanging #CheeGong #CultureClash #JudicialLynching #Injustice |
| 2018.02.11 | Tillamook Guerillas were ready to repel invaders | COAST Tillamook |
1940s | #NationalGuard #Militia WorldWarII #HomeDefense #Volunteers #Vigilantes #Maverick #Civilians #BeachPatrol #DIY |
| 2018.02.04 | Giant DC-8 airliner landed at country airport by mistake | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1960s | #Troutdale #JumboJet #DC8 #UnitedAirLines #Oops #PlaneCrash #LuckyBreak #PDX #Bonehead |
| 2018.01.28 | Was Joe Drake a murderer, or an innocent patsy? | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1880s | #JudicialLynching #Framed #Murder #Adultery #Black #Swartz #Henry #Ambush #Hanging #JuryTrial #Hanging #Salem #Race |
| 2018.01.21 | Davy Crockett in Oregon territory? Only in legend | STATEWIDE | 1840s | #Almanacs #TallTales #DeathHug #WolfHunter #AndrewJackson #OregonTerritory #GreatSnake #DimeNovels #PulpFiction #Legends |
| 2018.01.14 | Helicopter crash had huge impact on Portland journalism | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1940s | #OregonJournal #SamJackson #PlaneCrash #Fatal #Democrats #CopterPhoto #NewsroomDragonfly #Cronin #Portland #Journalism #Oregonian |
| 2018.01.07 | State government was “decapitated” by 1947 plane crash | SOUTHERN Lake |
1940s | #PlaneCrash #Fatal #Bonanza #Cornett #Farrell #Snell #Hogue #Adel #Kittredge #Lakeview #Fluhrer #SlicedBread #Medford #ForkTailDoctorKiller |
| 2017.12.31 | Two fatal airliner crashes made 1933 a rough year for Oregon aviators | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Multnomah &al. |
1930s | #LaneCounty #Ford #TriMotor #PlaneCrash #AirMail #Eugene #Boeing247 #UnitedAirlines #GroundLoop #CoffeyClinic #ForestPark #Portland #Fatal |
| 2017.12.24 | Lessons from Christmastime plane crash are still saving lives today | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1970s | #PlaneCrash #Fatal #DC8 #FuelStarvation #Troutdale #Mayday #CRM #UnitedAirlines #Flight173 #SoutheastPortland #PDX |
| 2017.12.17 | Oregon’s worst-ever plane crash is also its most mysterious | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1960s | #PlaneCrash #Fatal #DC9 #WestCoastAirlines #Flight956 #NewPlane #Welches #ControlledFlightIntoTerrain #EquipmentFailure #PDX |
| 2017.12.10 | Klamath Falls airport had an unusual run of bad luck | SOUTHERN Klamath |
1960s, 1970s | #PlaneCrash #Fatal #FairchildF27 #WestCoastAirlines #Flight720 #Icing #StukelMountain #ControlledFlightIntoTerrain #ButlerAir #Tanker69 #DC7 |
| 2017.12.03 | Hawaii-bound flight out of PDX ditched in open sea | COAST Multnomah |
1950s | #PDXmetro #PlaneCrash #Fatal #Boeing377 #Hawaii #PDX #Ditching #OpenSea #LifeRafts #PanAm #Flight845 #PropellerFailure |
| 2017.11.26 | Portland-bound airliner was blown out of the sky for insurance fraud | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1950s | #BadSeed #PlaneCrash #Dynamite #PDX #UnitedAirlines #Flight629 #DC6 #FBI #King #Graham #Orphanage #Forgery #Murder #Fatal #GasChamber |
| 2017.11.19 | Neighbors’ gunfight left three dead and got a fourth hanged | OUTBACK Union |
1890s | #BakerCounty #PineValley #Murder #Vigilante #Hanging #Execution #Porter #Mache #Outlaw #Gunfight |
| 2017.11.12 | Car chase at Crater Lake ended with an exploding hand grenade | SOUTHERN Klamath |
1980s | #CraterLake #Terrorism #Dynamite #Outlaw #Gunfight #Fatal #Explosion #Mystery #Theft #Fatal #Cops #Pursuit |
| 2017.11.05 | Was Lewis O’Neil a murderer, or did he just take the rap for one? | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1880s | #Ashland #Adultery #Murder #Shotgun #LewisONeil #AmandaMcDaniel #Hanging #Talent #Jacksonville #Letters |
| 2017.10.29 | Parks department’s aggressiveness cost Yachats its beach access for 10 years | COAST Lane |
1970s | #Yachats #LaneCounty #ShortSands #ParksDepartment #804trail #Irony #UnintendedConsequence #BeachAccess #OffbeatOregonOriginStory #BadIdea |
| 2017.10.22 | Brutal 1886 Lafayette ax murder couldn’t have been much more sordid | PDX METRO Yamhill |
1880s | #Marple #Hanging #Corker #Adultery #Robbery #Arson #FamilyBusiness #Execution #Masons #Conspiracy |
| 2017.10.15 | Little-known Lakeside resort was packed with Hollywood stars | COAST RANGE Coos |
1930s | #CurriersVillage #PatentMedicine #Crosby #Gable #TenmileLake #Gambling #Syphilis #Antacid #Advertising #Casino #LakeshoreLodge #ShowBiz |
| 2017.10.08 | James Cook was Oregon’s “International Murderer of Mystery” | COLUMBIA RIVER Wasco |
1870s | #TheDalles #BadGuys #Outlaw #Murderer #Revenge #Hanging #Execution #Mystery #Bullshitter |
| 2017.10.01 | To get back to sea, beached ship had to “sail” through the woods | COAST Clatsop |
1890s, 1900s | #Lightship50 #USCG #Salvage #Shipwreck #ColumbiaRiverBar #ClatsopSpit #BakerBay #HouseMovers #MaritimeMuseum |
| 2017.09.24 | Murderer learned “Unwritten Law” doesn’t cover killing one's brother-in-law | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s | #Murder #JealousRage #Adultery #Bigamy #Murray #Yenke #Portland #Masons #Shotgun #AmsterdamJack #Hanging #UnwrittenLaw |
| 2017.09.17 | Memories of Pixieland: High-water mark of Oregon’s postwar-timber-era culture | COAST Lincoln |
1960s, 1970s | #MidCentury #Commercialism #FranzBread #TimberCulture #LittleToot #AmusementParks #RoadsideAttractions #WeirdTourist #Otis |
| 2017.09.10 | Grande Ronde Valley: Oregon Trail’s Eden, used-oxen dealership | NORTHEAST Union |
1840s, 1850s | #Wallowas #BlueMountains #LaGrande #Oasis #Emigrants #Indians #NativeAmericans #Tribes #Trade #CoveredWagons |
| 2017.09.03 | Ghost may never have existed, but she saved Yaquina Bay Light nonetheless | COAST Lincoln |
1870s, 1890s, 1940s | #Newport #MurielTrevenard #LischenMiller #JoaquinMiller #PacificMonthly #SunsetMag #Shipwreck #Bloodstains #Haunted #Lighthouse #EvanMcClure #Demolition |
| 2017.08.27 | Frontier Oregon murder case was darker, more complicated than it appeared | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1860s | #SidneySmith #BarbaraSmith #ThomasSmith #GoldRush #SexAbuse #Molestation #Adultery #Shooting #Stabbing #Hanging #Execution #BuriedTreasure |
| 2017.08.20 | “Daredevil Al” Faussett was the Evel Knievel of the 1920s | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1920s | #SilverFalls #SouthFalls #CeliloFalls #Boats #Canoes #Kayaks #Stunts #ShowBiz #WillametteFalls |
| 2017.08.13 | How Bob Straub stopped a Vogon plan to run Highway 101 on the beach | COAST Tillamook |
1960s | #PacificCity #NestuccaSpit #BobStraub #GlennJackson #Scenic #CultureWars #Underdog #Highway #Vogons |
| 2017.08.06 | When the governor’s secretary imposed martial law on three saloons | OUTBACK Baker |
1910s | #OswaldWest #Copperfield #Progressives #FernHobbs #EdRand #Prostitution #Saloons #Gambling #Prohibition #IdahoPower #NationalGuard #Wiegand #Lawsuit |
| 2017.07.30 | Various schemers’ plans to exploit Multnomah Falls came to naught | COLUMBIA RIVER Multnomah |
1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #ColumbiaRiverGorge #Corbett #CunningPlan #MiningLaw #Sawmill #ConArtist #GeorgeWetherby #MultnomahFalls |
| 2017.07.23 | Colleague's taste for dead-lizard-infused booze ruined early naturalist’s specimens | COLUMBIA RIVER Multnomah &al. |
1830s | #ColumbiaCounty #BlueRuin #Temperance #NathanielWyeth #JohnTownsend #SauvieIsland #FortWilliam #ThomasNuttall #GiantNewt #Murder #Trial #Alcoholics |
| 2017.07.16 | How Marie Dorion earned her story as “Oregon’s Revenant” (Part 3 of 3) | NORTHEAST Wallowa &al. |
1810s | #UmatillaCounty #UnionCounty #BakerCounty #Beaver #FurTrappers #LewisAndClark #PierreDorion #AstorianParty #OregonTrail #Tonquin #Voyageurs #Shoshone #Bannock #Indians #Arson |
| 2017.07.09 | Astorian Party’s decision to follow the river was nearly fatal (Part 2 of 3) | OUTBACK &al. Malheur &al. |
1810s | #NORTHEAST #WallowaCounty #BakerCounty #FurTrappers #LewisAndClark #PierreDorion #AstorianParty #OregonTrail #Tonquin #Voyageurs #Pregnant #Shoshone #Indians #Astoria #FortClatsop #SnakeRiver #HellsCanyon |
| 2017.07.02 | Little-known Native Marie Dorion was a wilderness-survival ninja (Part 1 of 3) | OUTBACK Baker &al. |
1810s | #Revenant #LewisAndClark #PierreDorion #AstorianParty #OregonTrail #Tonquin #Voyageurs #Sacagawea #Blackfeet #Indians #FurTrappers |
| 2017.06.25 | Wild West bearcat Mona Bell: Annie Oakley with an edge | COLUMBIA RIVER Multnomah |
1910s, 1920s, 1930s | #BonnevilleDam #FDR #SamHill #Stonehenge #Maryhill #GorgeHighway #BuffaloBill #GreatNorthernRailroad #EminentDomain #ShowBiz #Journalists |
| 2017.06.18 | How a Corvallis man learned that cows make lousy boat engines | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton |
1850s | #Corvallis #BentonCounty #Canemah #Riverboat #Sternwheeler #Oxen #Marine #Willamette #Irony #Fail |
| 2017.06.11 | How Cape Foulweather Lighthouse got built on the wrong headland | COAST Lincoln |
1860s | #YaquinaHead #Lighthouse #OtterCrest #CobbleBeach #Newport #QuarryCove #1872MiningLaw #BLM #MarkHatfield #WheelchairAccessibleTidepools #Beach |
| 2017.06.04 | Oregon Governor Geer is state’s “patron saint of bike commuters” | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1890s | #TTGear #WaldoHills #SafetyBicycle #FredMerrill #Champoeg #ProvisionalGovernment #OregonTerritory #OHS #GeorgeHimes #FrancoisMatthieu #Lawnmower |
| 2017.05.28 | Oregon was scene of Soapy Smith’s first documented soap swindle | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s | #JeffersonSmith #Fakir #Bunco #Swindlers #Crooks #ConArtists #Gamblers #Skagway #Alcoholics #SoapGang #JuneauWharf #ThreeCardMonte #Gunfight |
| 2017.05.21 | One cold snap taught a town to ice-skate; another sank a steamship | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Multnomah &al. |
1940s | #LaneCounty #PortlandHarbor #Steamer #Crack #ExtremeWeather #WW2 #Shipwreck #IceSkating #CottageGrove |
| 2017.05.14 | Mount Hood: So mild-mannered, you forget it’s still an active volcano | CASCADE RANGE Hood River &al. |
1850s, 1860s | #ClackamasCounty #WyEast #AlpineClub #MazamaClub #Eruptions #Timberline #Skiing #Pyroclastic #Fatal #Fumarole #RingOfFire |
| 2017.05.07 | Aircraft Warning Service saw few enemies, but saved many friends | COAST | 1940s | #AWS #WW2 #Beach #Airplanes #War #Submarines #ImperialJapan #I25 #TillamookGuerillas #SandPounders #Brookings #PlaneCrash #Rescue #Ditching |
| 2017.04.30 | Cottage Grove’s revenge for failure of “Nesmith County” plan was savage | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1910s | #Eugene #LaneCounty #CunningPlan #Payback #Revenge #BallotMeasure #UofO #Underdog #NesmithCounty #CultureClash |
| 2017.04.23 | “Bonus Army” populist uprising started in Portland, ended Hoover's hopes | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1930s | #WalterWaters #WW1 #Burns #GreatDepression #March #Unemployed #Veterans #Congress #WashingtonDC #BEF #WhiteHouse #Freikorps #DouglasMacArthur #Fatal #Fire |
| 2017.04.16 | When old Portland flooded, people just raised the sidewalks | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s, 1860s | #1894flood #Portland #EricksonsSaloon #Chinatown #Dams #BoatRace #1861flood #Champoeg #RiverboatRescue #CaptainPease #Canemah #WillametteValley #Orleans |
| 2017.04.09 | Lighthouse was built 18 days too late to save sailing ship’s crew | COAST Tillamook |
1880s | #Lupatia #TillamookRock #Lighthouse #TerribleTilly #Fatal #Shipwreck #Barque #Sinking #TillamookHead #USCG #Columbarium #Cremains #Helicopter |
| 2017.04.02 | Ashland’s Shakespeare Festival kayoed boxing event in Round One | SOUTHERN Josephine |
1930s | #AngusBowmer #SOU #GlobeTheatre #Chautauqua #Prizefighters #Actors #ShowBiz #Elizabethan #BearBaiting #OSFA #NormalSchool #Drama #TheaterKids |
| 2017.03.26 | Even as a boy, Erector Set inventor seemed larger than life | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1890s, 1900s | #ACGilbert #HelloBoys #Atomic #ChemistrySet #MagicShow #Salem #WorldRecord #Athlete #Magician #FireDepartment #Arson #PacificUniversity #ForestGrove #ShowBiz |
| 2017.03.19 | “The Bucket of Blood” saloon: A souvenir of the age of shanghaiing | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s, 1910s | #WhiteEagle #Saloon #Prohibition #McMenamins #GhostStories #TonyFerrone #CuervoGold #Albina #Poland #RobertCray #HolyModalRounders #Anarchists #Haunted |
| 2017.03.12 | Did Sir Francis Drake actually visit Oregon in 1579? | COAST Lincoln |
1570s | #BobWard #GoldenHind #EClampusVitus #WhaleCove #DepoeBay #NovaAlbion #NorthwestPassage #NehalemBay #DrakeNavigatorsGuild #PracticalJokes #Pirates |
| 2017.03.05 | Pirate, jailbird, swindler, tycoon: “Colonel” T.E. Hogg and his railroad | COAST RANGE Lincoln |
1880s | #HoggRock #Pirates #Confederates #ColonelTEdgentonHogg #O&C #RailroadToNowhere #OregonPacific #YaquinaBay #Newport #SantiamPass #Steamship #LandGrant #Portland #Shipwreck #Alcatraz #CurtisIrish #RichSandler |
| 2017.02.26 | How A.C. Gilbert, the “anti-Grinch” from Oregon, saved Christmas | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1900s, 1910s | #ACGilbert #HelloBoys #Atomic #ChemistrySet #MagicShow #Salem #Mysto #WoodrowWilson #WW1 #CancelChristmas #WarBonds #ErectorSet #ForestGrove #ShowBiz |
| 2017.02.19 | Former Oregonian saved whole nations from starving to death (Part 2 of 2) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion &al. |
1910s, 1920s | #YamhillCounty #HerbertHoover #Quakers #SocietyFriends #Newberg #Salem #London #WW1 #Germany #WoodrowWilson #Humanitarian #Mining #Engineer #Steamships #CRB #Belgium |
| 2017.02.12 | Tiny, lonely Newberg orphan grew up to be President (Part 1 of 2) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Yamhill &al. |
1880s, 1890s | #MarionCounty #HerbertHoover #Quakers #SocietyFriends #Newberg #Salem #JohnMinthorn #OregonLandCo #GeorgeFox #Stanford #Mining #Engineer #BoxerRebellion #CRB #Belgium |
| 2017.02.05 | California Gold Rush was sparked by a failed Oregon farmer | WILLAMETTE VALLEY | 1840s | #JamesMarshall #GoldMining #Prospectors #SuttersFort #California #Willamette #OregonTrail #Mexico #49ers #BearFlag #WaterPower #Sawmill #Tailrace #Nuggets |
| 2017.01.29 | Story of sinister “Polybius” videogame almost certainly a myth | PDX METRO Washington |
1980s | #Folklore #Legend #Sinnesloeschen #MenInBlack #VideoArcade #MindControl #Necronomicon #UrbanLegend #TheSimpsons #Portland #FBI #CIA #KGB #XFiles |
| 2017.01.22 | Quest for “Blue Bucket Mine” led “suckers” to actual riches | OUTBACK Baker |
1860s | #LostGold #Treasure #OregonTrail #MeekCutoff #Auburn #BlueMountains #YellowPebbles #FishingTackle #ChinaCreek #GoldRush #Adams #Folklore #Prospectors |
| 2017.01.15 | Oregon’s biggest mud puddles are once-and-future inland seas | OUTBACK Lake |
1850s | #GooseLake #Chewacan #AlkaliLake #OregonTrail #Applegate #FortRock #Waterfowl #DeadSea #Lakeview #SilverLake #ChristmasValley |
| 2017.01.08 | Bungled train robbery-murder solved with “CSI: Southern Oregon” (Part 2 of 2) | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1920s | #DeAutremontBros #TrainRobbers #Forensics #Tunnel13 #Murderers #Manhunt #Heinrich #Dynamite #IWW #UO #DumbCrooks #MostWanted #Eugene #Lobotomy |
| 2017.01.01 | Last “great” train robbery was a brutal, incompetent fiasco (Part 1 of 2) | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1920s | #DeAutremontBros #TrainRobbers #Forensics #Tunnel13 #Murderers #Manhunt #SiskiyouPass #Dynamite #IWW #GoldSpecial #Albany #Timber #DumbCrooks #MostWanted |
| 2016.12.25 | “Oregon System” showed nation how to reform a corrupt system | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1890s, 1900s | #WilliamURen #JonathanBourne #VoterFraud #HoldUpSession #JohnHippleMitchell #PopulistParty #Walkout #InitiativeReferendum SophroniaLewelling #Progressives #OregonSystem #Corruption #DirectDemocracy #PaulCulbertons #SouthernPacific #Railroad #EldridgeBlock #GeorgeChamberlain |
| 2016.12.18 | How Oregon helped Henry Kaiser save England and Canada | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1940s | #WW2 #LibertyShips #Submarines #Blockade #UnitedKingdom #Welding #RosieRiveter #KaiserJeeps #Portland #Vancouver #Vanport #Shipyards #EscortCarriers #NaziGermany #ImperialJapan #MerchantMarine #StarOfOregon #ColumbiaRiver #JeremiahOBrien #JaneAdams #RichardHenryDana |
| 2016.12.11 | The rise and fall of the Oregon Electric Railway | WILLAMETTE VALLEY | 1900s, 1910s, 1920s | #WillametteValley #Railroad #PirtleTransferStation #Albany #Graffiti #SouthernPacific #Interurban #LightRail #Trolleys #CiddicisPizza #OregonElectricStation #FordModelT #Architecture #Amtrak #Ruins |
| 2016.12.04 | * Is Oregon's oldest known shipwreck a sunken treasure ship? | *deprecated* | 1690s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of a later updated version (with new information!) |
| 2016.11.27 | Bringing a Temperance preacher along on a liquor raid turned out to be a bad idea | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1920s | #PlainviewKillings #Albany #LinnCounty #TemperancePreacher #LiquorRaid #Murder #Revenge #Bootlegging #Still #Cops #BadTiming #Fatal #Suicide #Prohibition#Shedd #Willamette #CoryFrye #CharlesKendall #DaveWest #RoyHealy #EllenWest #RheumatismLiniment #Posse #AltonWilliams |
| 2016.11.20 | Once Oregon's soggiest town, Valsetz is now just a memory | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Polk |
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1980s | #CompanyStore #Wendling #LoggingCamp #WetterThanForks #PlywoodMill #CobbsAndMitchell #ValleyAndSiletz #Railroad #GhostTown #Timber #BoiseCascade #SpottedOwl #Logging #Sawmills #LindaCarlson |
| 2016.11.13 | “Atlantic City of the West” was swallowed up by the sea | COAST Tillamook |
1910s,1920s, 1930s | #BayoceanSpit #Steamship #Jetty #NowGone #Beach #Marine #Promoters #BellSystem #ThomasPotter #Resort #Natatorium #MotorYacht #BeachErosion #BuildingsCollapse #OysterBeds #FrancisMitchell #IdaMitchell #BertWebber #UlrichHardt |
| 2016.11.06 | Gold Rush-era Jacksonville: Where the bank “robbed” you, highway style | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1850s | #GoldRush #GoldMining #RichGulch #TableRock #Chinatown #Railroad #Lottery #BrittFestival #Stagecoach #Prospectors #HighPrices |
| 2016.10.30 | “Father of Oregon Geology” once left graffiti deep in the Oregon Caves | SOUTHERN Josephine |
1880s | #Eugene #LaneCounty #ThomasCondon #Fossils #Geology #OregonCaves #BoneWars #Geography #Professor |
| 2016.10.23 | Bootlegger's liquor buy ended up soaking borrowed car with blood | PDX METRO Clackamas &al. |
1920s | #MultnomahCounty #LinnCounty #Portland #Albany #LinnCounty #Murder #Revenge #Prohibition #BadTiming #Robbery #RoadTrip #Mystery #Moonshine #RussellHecker |
| 2016.10.16 | How Andy Warhol “punk'd” two Oregon colleges, and how he was caught | PDX METRO Yamhill &al. |
1960s | #LaneCounty #UO #LinfieldCollege #TheFactory #PaulMorrissey #Journalists #BillWinter #AllenMidgette #Utah #Phillistines #DonBishoff #BloodTestsAndFingerprints #ConArtists #Bullshitters |
| 2016.10.09 | Gold Rush stagecoach driver One-Eyed Charley had an astonishing secret | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1850s, 1860s, 1870s | #OneEyedCharlie #Stagecoach #Parkhurst #Siskiyou #WellsFargo #Robbery #Fatal #Sugarfoot #GoldRush #Orphans #NewHampshire #Charlotte #Disguised #FirstWoman |
| 2016.10.02 | Oregon has been home to someone since well before 12,000 B.C. | OUTBACK Lake |
1930s, 2000s | #Coprolites #FortRock #Clovis #DNA #Sandals #DennisJenkins #UO #MargaretMead #LakeChewacan #SummerLake #AbertLake #ReubLong #LutherCressman #BoardmanStatePark #RobertaHall #LorenDavis #OSU |
| 2016.09.25 | Family feud ended with double murder by masked assassins | SOUTHERN Klamath |
1880s | #Linkville #KlamathFalls #Murder #LynchMob #Vigilante #Outlaw #Unsolved #ColdCase #Revenge #Graveyard #Fatal |
| 2016.09.18 | Former Albany newsman saved Crater Lake for a national park | SOUTHERN Klamath |
1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #WilliamGladstoneSteel #MazamaClub #Fishing #AlbanyDemocratHerald #OregonAlpineClub #NationalParks #Indians #SacredPlaces #Progressives #TheodoreRoosevelt |
| 2016.09.11 | Fish wheel pilings a reminder of when Columbia swarmed with salmon | COLUMBIA RIVER | 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #ColumbiaRiver #Pilings #SalmonFishing #Cannery #GrandCouleeDam #Gillnetters #CascadeRapids #FisheryCollapse #Referendum #Sportfishing #OkanaganRiver #DeadliestCatch |
| 2016.09.04 | Did Oregon’s political supervillain save the world from Nazi nukes? | COLUMBIA RIVER Multnomah |
1930s | #Bonneville #ColumbiaGorge #HistoryChanged #War #WhatIf #CharlesMartin #FDR #WW2 #BPA #Aluminum #Politicians |
| 2016.08.28 | “Graveyard of the Pacific” was not easily tamed | COAST Clatsop |
1850s | #Oriole #Shipwreck #ColumbiaRiverBar #WindShadow #BarPilots #CapeDisappointment #Lighthouse #PointAdams #Lightship #Astoria #SouthJetty #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers |
| 2016.08.21 | Japan’s balloon bombs could have done a lot more damage | COAST RANGE Tillamook |
1940s | #WW2 #Bly #Salmonberry #TillamookBurn #DoolittleRaids #FireBalloons #JetStream #Intercontinental #MulberryPaper #StrangeExplosions #Aviation #ImperialJapan #ForestFires |
| 2016.08.14 | Highway engineer could have had Florence singing “It’s Raining Meat” | COAST Lane |
1970s | #Florence #LaneCounty #CunningPlan #Fail #Dynamite #Explosion #Journalism #WorldFamous #Irony #UnintendedConsequences #BadIdea |
| 2016.08.07 | “Christmas Ship” could have used some navigation help from Santa and Rudolph | COAST Clatsop |
1940s | #Warrenton #Shipwreck #Beach #WW2 #Irony #Marine #Fail #BadTiming #MaunaAla #Steamship #ColumbiaRiver #Lightship |
| 2016.07.31 | Truck bombing doomed the cause of newspapers’ striking unions | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1960s | #Portland #Explosion #Dynamite #LaborStrife #Newspaper #BadIdea #Journalism #SiNewhouse #MariaJackson #Theft #ConArtists |
| 2016.07.24 | One man’s cheating heart likely cost Portland its local newspaper | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1960s | #Portland #Shotgun #Shooting #Political #Journalism #BadTiming #LaborStrife #Conspiracy #Oregonian #OregonJournal #BadLove |
| 2016.07.17 | Supreme Court once declared slavery legal for sailors | COAST Clatsop |
1890s | #Astoria #SailingShip #Arago #AragoFour #Irony #Marine #Constitution #Shanghaiing #Injustice #InvoluntaryServitude #Sailors |
| 2016.07.10 | Who had the motive to frame an innocent man? Everyone did (Part 3 of 3) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1940s | #MarthaBrinsonJames #SouthernPacific #PvtHaroldWilson #USMC #WarHero #WarDepartment #LawEnforcementIncompetence #RobertELeeFolkes #Black #JudicialLynching #Race #ZootSuit #HarlemRenaissance #UnionActivist |
| 2016.07.03 | In trial, prime suspect became star witness against obviously innocent man (Part 2 of 3) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1940s | #MarthaBrinsonJames #PullmanCoach #Albany #ColdStove #SouthernPacific #PvtHaroldWilson #USMC #BirthOfANation #LockedRoomMystery #Scapegoat #RobertELeeFolkes #Black #JudicialLynching #Race #Trial #TaintedEvidence |
| 2016.06.26 | Brutal wartime railroad murder ended in a cynical “railroad job” (Part 1 of 3) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1940s | #MarthaBrinsonJames #PullmanCoach #Albany #USNavy #SouthernPacific #PvtHaroldWilson #USMC #TrailOfBlood #Screwdriver #RobertELeeFolkes #Black #JudicialLynching #Race #Trial #Confession #Guilty #GasChamber |
| 2016.06.19 | The ship that suddenly broke in half while moored at the dock: The S.S. Schenectady | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1940s | #WW2 #Portland #TankerShip #HenryKaiser #OregonShipbuildingCo #Vanport #CrackedInHalf #ThermalStress #NotSabotage #FBI #Refloated |
| 2016.06.12 | For captain and crew, catastrophic shipwreck was luckiest break of their lives | COAST Clatsop |
1940s | #ColumbiaRiverBar #VictoryShips #LibertyShips #Vanport #Shipyards #DrexelVictory #NaziSubmarines #Convoys #Allies #WW2 #CrackedInHalf #OregonShipbuilding #HenryKaiser #USCG #Rescue #Shipwreck |
| 2016.06.05 | “Heaven's Gate” UFO cult lured away 20 Oregonians, caused statewide panic | COAST Lincoln |
1970s | #Waldport #Cults #UFOs #Charismatic #XTheories #Fatal #StarTrek #Comet #Spaceship #Mystery #Hubris #Fail |
| 2016.05.29 | Albany’s “Queen of Fakirs” belongs in swindlers’ hall of fame | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1880s, 1890s | #Albany #LinnCounty #MaudMyrtleJohnson #ConArtists #Vaudeville #Mystery #ChildAbuse #Railroad #Underdog #Insurance #Fake #Injury |
| 2016.05.22 | Southern Oregon populist leader had plans for a guerilla uprising (Part 3 of 3) | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1930s | #Medford #LlewellynBanks #CopKiller #Election #Theft #VoterFraud #MAGA #Revolt #Autocrat #Fail #Prison #Convict |
| 2016.05.15 | The Jackson County Rebellion: Llewellyn Banks comes to power (Part 2 of 3) | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1930s | #Medford #LlewellynBanks #Burglary #Journalism #Pulitzer #MedfordMailTribune #CultureClash #GreatDepression #Gunfight #Murder |
| 2016.05.08 | “Jackson County Rebellion” grew out of newspapers’ fight (Part 1 of 3) | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1920s, 1930s | #Medford #LlewellynBanks #Vigilantes #Populism #Mob #Corruption #Sedition #BadCops #GoodCops #Charismatic #Politicians |
| 2016.05.01 | Edward F. Lee was Oregon’s first fake-viagra scammer | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn &al. |
1910s | #MultnomahCounty #Swindlers #PPrestoCo #Orangeade #MailFraud #Moonshiners #ErectileDysfunction #Impotence #FakeBirthControl #ConArtists #Albany |
| 2016.04.24 | Frontier Oregon swindlers: The traveling medicine shows | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s, 1880s, 1890s | #ConArtists #SnakeOilTonic #ShowBiz #Promoters #Streetcorner #PatentRemedy #DrLarsell |
| 2016.04.17 | Oregon Trail Medicine; or, How Not to Die of Dysentery | STATEWIDE | 1840s, 1850s | #Galen #Humors #FolkRemedies #Thompsonians #Homeopathy #Herbalism #DrDains #HistoryOfMedicine #Jacksonian |
| 2016.04.10 | Oregon women served as nation's first female governor, cop, and voter (Part 2 of 2) | STATEWIDE | 1900s | #Salem #FirstestMostest #Progressivism #CarolynShelton #CarrieShelton #LolaBaldwin #CharleyParkhurst |
| 2016.04.03 | Abigail Scott Duniway isn't the only great woman in Oregon's history (Part 1 of 2) | STATEWIDE | 1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #Progressivism #LargerThanLife #FirstestMostest #HistoryChanged #Underdog #Misunderstood #FirstWoman #MaryLeonard #BetheniaOwens #FrancisVictor |
| 2016.03.27 | Vaudeville Susie's Riot; or, How Seriously Frontier Oregon Took its Entertainment | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton |
1860s | #Corvallis #BentonCounty #WallaWalla #CivilWar #Shootout #Fatal #Stage #UnintendedConsequences #Confederates #CultureClash |
| 2016.03.20 | A Longshoreman's Funeral (Circuit Preacher Chronicles, Part 3 of 3) | WASHINGTON TERRITORY | 1880s | #CircuitRiders #Frontier #OregonTrail #LemuelWells #Pastors #Longshoremen #Episcopalians #Tacoma #DockWorkers #Union #Fight #GravesideService #Stampede #Liquor #Roadhouse |
| 2016.03.13 | Shanghaiing up a flock for the Lord (Circuit Preacher Chronicles, Part 2 of 3) | STATEWIDE | 1850s, 1860s, 1870s | #CircuitRiders #Frontier #OregonTrail #LemuelWells #Pastors #Hustlers #EthelbertTalbert #DrunksInChurch #PublicanParty #FatherWilbur #Methodist #TentRevival #GoldRush #LiquorPeddlers #Assault #BrokenBottles |
| 2016.03.06 | The Reverend Wells’ Wild Ride (Circuit Preacher Chronicles, Part 1 of 3) | STATEWIDE Umatilla |
1870s, 1880s, 1890s | #CircuitRiders #Frontier #OregonTrail #LemuelWells #Pastors #Murphy #Weston #TiedToBedpost #Haystack #Bathtub #Ice #TumbleDownStairs |
| 2016.02.28 | Oregon lad became a founding father of Russian communism | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s | #JohnSReed #KremlinWall #Bolsheviks #FrancisHeney #LandFraudTrials #Muckrakers #Journalists #Progressives #Socialists #NewJournalism #PanchoVilla #LouiseBryant #Lenin #Trotsky #Revolutionary #Portland |
| 2016.02.21 | Would inventor's all-metal, steam-powered airship have worked? (Part 2 of 2) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1920s | #ThomasSlade #Airships #Hindenberg #AllMetal #SteamPowered #CityOfGlendale #Overpressurized #Unfixable #Disaster #DryIce #SlateAircraftCo #HydrogenVsHelium #Stormproof |
| 2016.02.14 | Benton County lad became the “Nicola Tesla of Oregon” (Part 1 of 2) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton |
1910s, 1920s | #ThomasSlade #Airships #Hindenberg #AllMetal #SteamPowered #CityOfGlendale #Tangent #Alsea #Housecar #Motorhome #DryIce #SlateAircraftCo #HydrogenVsHelium #Stormproof |
| 2016.02.07 | Doomed schooner's crew was locked in race against fiery death | COAST Clatsop |
1900s | #ColumbiaRiverBar #Shipwreck #Fire #Tatoosh #Challenger #UnslakedLime #WillapaBay #TugboatAstoria #Salvage #Scuttled #Smoke #CaptainNelson #ChrisOlseen #Harriman #ColumbiaRiverLightship |
| 2016.01.31 | Captain's refusal to leave shipwreck angered his rescuers | COAST Clatsop |
1920s | #ColumbiaRiverBar #USCG #RescueRefused #SSLaurel #LouisJohnson #Shipwreck #PeacockSpit #MotorLifeboats #Fatal #CutterRedWing #Beaching #GuardingTheCargo |
| 2016.01.24 | For Milwaukie gas station owner, buying bomber was a wild adventure | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1940s | #ArtLacey #B17 #B-17 #FlyingFortress #DressmakersDummyIsMyCopilot #WW2 #Surplus #TheBomberGasStation #Milwaukie#PunkyScott #Bet #StuckLandingGear #Whiskey #FightCityHall #MidnightRun #B17Alliance #SalemAirport |
| 2016.01.17 | Bizarre scientific “bone wars” touched Oregon, but barely | OUTBACK Wheeler &al. |
1870s | #GrantCounty #ThomasCondon #OthnielMarsh #EdwardDrinkerCope #Fossils #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Feud #JohnDayFossilBeds #Archaeology #Dig #Exploration |
| 2016.01.10 | Portland's “Jitney Wars” pitted entrepreneurs against monopoly | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s | #Taxi #Portland #RailroadMonopoly #RideSharing #Streetcars #LaborUnion #WillDaly #EntrepreneursVsMonopoly #UnfairCompetition #Uber #Lyft |
| 2016.01.03 | Governor Charles Martin's goons were dirty fighters, but incompetent (Part 3 of 3) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1930s | #Salem #USArmy #General #Fascism #HistoryChanged #War #Racism #Black #FreeSpeech #LaborStrife #Progressivism #BadCops |
| 2015.12.27 | Gov. Martin tried to run Oregon like an Army base | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1930s | #Salem #USArmy #General #Fascism #HistoryChanged #War #Racism #Black #FreeSpeech #LaborStrife #Progressivism #BadCops |
| 2015.12.20 | Oregon’s own would-be fascist dictator: Charles Martin | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #Salem #USArmy #General #Fascism #HistoryChanged #War #Racism #Black #FreeSpeech #LaborStrife #Progressivism #BadCops |
| 2015.12.13 | Collection of “history hoarder” now a priceless treasure | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s, 1880s, 1890s | #GeorgeHimes #FrancesFullerVictor #OregonHistoricalSociety #Historian #OregonTrail #Portland #MorningOregonian #AnnaRiggs #GeoffreyWexler #OregonPioneerAssociation #Temperance #JoaquinMiller #HarveyScott #FredericYoung #KimbarkMacColl #Artifacts #AmandaLaugesen |
| 2015.12.06 | Incompetence and a labor strike led to deadly shipwreck | COAST Multnomah |
1920s | #InternationalSeamensUnion #Strike #WW1 #Steamship #Alaska #PortlandSteamshipCo #EdgarHorner #CapeMendocino #Shipwreck #BoilerExplosion #CaptainHarryHobey #EDDupree #Fatal |
| 2015.11.29 | Charity Lamb, Oregon’s most misunderstood ax-murderess | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1850s | #NathanielLamb #Collins #MalcolmClark #Abuse #Wifebeater #OregonTrail #MaryAnnLamb #DeathThreats #AbramLamb #ThomasLamb #DrPresleyWelch #Murder #HawthorneAsylum #RonaldLansing #Fatal |
| 2015.11.22 | The all-night municipal gunfight in the town of Ione | OUTBACK Morrow |
1900s | #CharlesEarhart #Prison #MaryGranger #HenryClark #IoneHotel #HeppnerGazette #Shotgun #DeputyWalterCason #Gunfight #Fatal |
| 2015.11.15 | Monmouth’s 150-year tradition of Prohibition in Oregon | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Polk |
1850s, 2010s | #Prohibition #VolsteadAct #WCTU #DryTown #DisciplesOfChrist #WOU #RaphaelLande #WilliamLadd #KyleJansson #SimeonReed #Temperance #Independence #LiquorTax #OwnAnEdsel #VictorianTeaFestival #MonmouthMarketPlace #GordonRuss |
| 2015.11.08 | Keeping lighthouse running was hard, and expensive (Part 3 of 3 on Tillamook Rock Light) | COAST Tillamook |
1880s, 1930s, 1950s | #TerribleTilly #Lighthouse #Fatal #JohnTrewaves #JamesGibbs #FlyingRocks #Flooding #FresnelLens #WilliamHall #HenryJenkins #HenryGoetz #Seaside #ShortwaveRadio #LighthouseService #USCG #Columbarium #GhostTown |
| 2015.11.02 | To get help building lighthouse, bosses had to be sneaky (Part 2 of 3 on Tillamook Rock Light) | COAST Tillamook |
1880s | #TerribleTilly #Lighthouse #FresnelLens #ThomasCorwin #TillamookRock #JohnTrewaves #LighthouseService #USCG #TillamookHead #Shanghaiers #Astoria #Lupatia #Shipwreck #Fatal |
| 2015.10.25 | Tillamook Lighthouse ghost greeted keeper on first night | COAST Tillamook |
1940s | #TerribleTilly #Lighthouse #DrunkDogPluto #Alcatraz #TillamookRock #JapaneseInvasion #LighthouseService #USCG #TillamookHead #JamesGibbs #Triumph #BreechesBuoy #Haunted #GhostStories #Goose #BrokenWing |
| 2015.10.18 | Daring rescue saved 49, made skipper toast of the coast | COAST Clatsop |
1910s | #CaptainBuckBailey #Tatoosh #Washington #PeacockSpit #ColumbiaRiverBar #DriveScrew #CaptainGeorgeWinkel #GreenWater #SteamSchooners #MaryFullmer #SalvageTugboat #JamesGibbs #Insurance #PugetSoundTowBoatCo |
| 2015.10.11 | A tale of two heroes of two different Civil Wars | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton |
1900s, 1910s, 1920s | #CrystalLakeCemetery #JohnRichardNewtonBell #ThomasThorp #Methodist #Confederate #MandanaMajor #Newberg #Corvallis #GeorgeFoxUniversity #OSUBeavers #UODucks #MargaretKirk #BellField #MarryingParson #Masonic #OAC #OSU #CivilWarFootball #HatInRiver #RandolFletcher |
| 2015.10.04 | Murderer shocked when Unwritten Law fails him | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #UnwrittenLaw #ThomasDickerson #Murderer #HarryGarrett #Teamster #Revolver #MarthaMessner #Pearl #Divorce #PreNuptialAgreement #Portland #SpousalAbuse #Wifebeater #SenecaFouts #Hanging #Manslaughter |
| 2015.09.27 | Unwritten Law wasn’t always a disastrous moral failure | OUTBACK &al. Malheur &al. |
1900s | #WillametteValley #LaneCounty #UnwrittenLaw #HomerRoper #LeahPowell #OrlandoMurray #CharlesPowell #UncleJoab #PilotRock #WinchesterRifle #MurderTrial #SelfDefense #JohnBrown #BessieBrown #BillWisdom #SexAbuse #IkeWhitely #IkeNichols #DuckHunting #Shotgun #Vengeance |
| 2015.09.20 | Clean-cut case turned out to be sordid and complex (Gittings murder 2 of 2) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #Albina #Murderer #Wifebeater #SpousalAbuse #MelvilleBradley #JosephSivener #Vaudeville #JohnGittings #KateKakarous #AggieVanders #Neglect #Christmas #Forgers #Prostitutes #NorthEnd #Hookers #Bigamists #CountyPoorhouse #FeebleMinded #UnwrittenLaw |
| 2015.09.13 | Cop's murder turned Portland against Unwritten Law (Gittings murder 1 of 2) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #Albina #Murderer #Wifebeater #SpousalAbuse #MelvilleBradley #JosephSivener #Vaudeville #JohnGittings #KateBradley #AggieVanders #Funeral #OpenGrave #FuneralParlor #PortlandPolice #UnwrittenLaw |
| 2015.09.06 | Private manhunt ended with jury-approved murder | COAST Coos &al. |
1900s | #ClatsopCounty #UnwrittenLaw #SteamerAlliance #JohnBowlsby #Murder #CleveJennings #NorthBend #Astoria #NotGuilty #Jury #AnotherSlayerAcquitted #Assassination #RevengePlot |
| 2015.08.30 | Man hailed as a hero for murdering sister’s ex-lover | PDX METRO Marion |
1900s | #UnwrittenLaw #OrlandoMurray #LincolnWhitney #MaryMurray #Pregnant #ShotgunWedding #Hubbard #HopFields #Lothario #FistfightingLawyer #NotGuilty #InsaneAsylum #Sex #Alcoholism #TemporaryInsanity #MarriageProposals #JohnLogan #WVaughn #PunchTheSheriff #Scandal #ThankGodForIt #MobJustice |
| 2015.08.23 | The Unwritten Law: A license to kill (but just for men) | STATEWIDE | 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #UnwrittenLaw #HonorKillings #Murderers #TemporaryInsanity #Lynching #HolyRollers #EdmundCreffield #CharlesReynolds #ProfessorHerbert #MiscarriageOfJustice #MassHysteria |
| 2015.08.16 | The ones that got away: Almost-shipwrecks on the bar | COAST Clatsop |
1880s, 1900s | #ColumbiaRiverBar #Shipwrecks #QueenOfThePacific #CaptEzekielAlexander #Stranded #Salvage #Beached #PacificCoastSteamshipCo #BlankCheck #Tugboats #CJBrenham #GeneralMiles #Sidi #CaptJHill #Becalmed #DraggedAnchor #SandIsland #SeaWaif #Barque #Poltalloch #ProfessorKoch #Fulton |
| 2015.08.09 | Six picnickers were only victims of balloon bombs | SOUTHERN Lake County |
1940s | #WW2 #ImperialJapan #BalloonBombs #RevArchcieMitchell #ElyseMitchell #MissionaryAllianceChurch #Bly #SubarineI25 #CoastGuardBeachPatrols #ShermanShoemaker #JayClifford #EddieEngen #DickPatzke #JoanPatzke #Explosion #NewsCensorship #TillamookBurn #OnlyCasualties #StillOutThere |
| 2015.08.02 | Shark shipwreck: Navy’s loss was Cannon Beach's gain (Part 2 of 2 on Shark shipwreck) | COAST Clatsop |
1840s | #CannonBeachHistoryCenter #ColumbiaRiverBar #USNavy #Deserters #Sailors #Shipwreck #USSShark #OregonTerritory #Astoria #CabinFever #CaptNeilHowison #British #JointOccupancyTreaty #Toulon #Barque #EbbTide #ClatsopSpit #Lifeboats #NoFatalities #PeacockSpit #HudsonsBayCo |
| 2015.07.26 | Schooner doomed by skipper’s fear of skipping sailors (Part 1 of 2 on Shark shipwreck) | COAST Clatsop |
1840s | #JohnMcLoughlin #ColumbiaRiverBar #USNavy #Deserters #Sailors #Shipwreck #JohnTice #USSShark #OregonTerritory #Astoria #CabinFever #CaptNeilHowison #PirateHunter #BaltimoreClipper #Liberia #Hellships #SlaverHunter #CommodorePerry #KeyWest #British #JointOccupancyTreaty |
| 2015.07.19 | Oregon’s 20th-century “gold rush”: The quest for uranium | OUTBACK Lake &al. |
1950s | #AMetal #Nuclear #AtomicEnergy #Yellowcake #GoldRush #Uranium238 #Carnotite #ColdWar #Prospectors #GeigerCounters #Lakeview #SteensMountain #EarlSheridan #KlamathFalls #MiningClaim #WhiteKingMind #LuckyLassMine #FremontNationalForest #AlphaRadiation #SuperfundCleanup |
| 2015.07.12 | Blundering robber turned out to be Joaquin Miller’s son | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Coos |
1890s | #SingerOfTheSierras #DeadbeatDad #HighwayRobber #Stagecoach #Bandit #WellsFargo #ExpressBox #CharlesLambert #SheriffStandley #BallardRifle #Willits #GeorgeMiller #HarryMiller #MinnieMyrrtle #CoosBay #Burglars #Prison #Jailbreak #SantaRosa #Disowned #SanQuentin #Outlaws #BadPoetry |
| 2015.07.05 | Sudden tempest caught steamship at worst possible time | COAST Clatsop |
1930s | #Shipwreck #Steamship #Iowa #Fatal #ColumbiaRiverBar #DonMcLeod #Astoria #CharlesHubbard #CaptEdgarYates #PeacockSpit #Hurricane #Mayday #CapeDisappointment #CoastGuard #Onondaga #BeachSalvage #WorstDisaster #Graveyard |
| 2015.06.28 | Rosecrans rescue one of Coast Guard’s finest hours (Part 2 of 2 on Rosecrans shipwreck) | COAST Clatsop |
1910s | #CursedShips #Rosecrans #ColumbiaRiverBar #Shipwreck #FearOfFire #SOS #CaptLucienJohnson #Tanker #PointAdamsLifestation #OscarWicklund #USCG #ClatsopSpit #Astoria #MerrymanMotorLifeboat #Rescuers #Tatoosh #PeacockSpit #AlfredRimer #TugboatFearless #ColumbiaLightship #EParsons |
| 2015.06.21 | Cursed or not, S.S. Rosecrans was unusually unlucky (Part 1 of 2 on Rosecrans shipwreck) | COAST Clatsop |
1910s | #CursedShips #Rosecrans #ColumbiaRiverBar #Tanker #AssociatedOilCo #WhitelawSalvage #CaptLucienJohnson #Fire #TillamookRockLight #CapeDisappointment #DesdemonaSandsLight #JohnSlinning #FredPeters #Rescue #Fatal #Shipwreck #NavigationError |
| 2015.06.14 | “Ship of Romance and Death” came to a dramatic end | COAST Clatsop |
1900s | #CursedShips #Melanope #Superstition #LuckyDog #Northland #Dismasted #WitchesCurse #SuicideAttempt #GhostOfEmmaTaylor #Adultery #Mistress #Astoria #Barge #ComoxHarbour #VancouverIsland #StillThere |
| 2015.06.07 | The small-town police chief who was executed for murder | CASCADE RANGE Clackamas |
1940s, 1950s | #Sandy #ChiefStoneman #OttoAustinLoel #DUII #SecurityGuard #RoadTrip #DayDrinker #MayorJohnMills #ElizabethJeanneHenderson #OklahomaCity #BloodSpattered #HotelRoom #CigaretteBurns #Fugitive #NymphomaniaLibel #ElectricChair #Execution #WallyHunter #MichaelWilson #Alcoholic |
| 2015.05.31 | FBI’s “Most Wanted” gangster was busted in Beaverton | PDX METRO Washington |
1950s | #JohnMcCullough #Drywall #Plasterer #FBI #MostWanted #ThomasJamesHolden #Murderer #Gangster #Alcatraz #BankRobber #Leavenworth #Jailbird #TommyHolden #Prison #DavidWard #Outlaw #Manhunt #Fugitive |
| 2015.05.24 | Oregon’s highest, smallest city once had its jail stolen | OUTBACK Baker |
1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1960s | #GrantCounty #GreenhornCity #CanyonCity #BlueMountains #GrantCountyCourthouse #GhostTown #Blockhouse #StolenJailhouse #CityCharter #PresidentJamesPolk #LambertFlorin #GoldMining #MilesPotter #Boomtown #JoaquinMiller |
| 2015.05.17 | Mount Angel Abbey owes grandeur to colorful Swiss monk | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #AdelhelmOdermatt #FatherODermott #Swiss #Benedictine #Seminary #MtAngel #Priory #EngelbergAbbey #Fillmore #Fundraising #MountAngelCollege #Fire #AbbotThomasMeienhofer #Showmanship #AaltoLibrary |
| 2015.05.10 | Storm-tossed ships shared a double date with destiny | COAST Clatsop |
1850s | #ColumbiaRiverBar #Mindora #Merrithew #Barques #Christmas #Astoria #CaptGeorgeStaples #Becalmed #Stranded #MiddleSands #Lifeboat #ClatsopSpit #DisappearingShipwrecks #NorthHead #ShoalwaterBay #NoFatalities |
| 2015.05.03 | Oregon’s Doolittle raiders made history in startling ways (Part 3 of 3 on Doolittle Raiders) | OUTBACK Morrow |
1940s | #Pendleton #ColonelDeanDavenport #RupturedDuck #30SecondsOverTokyo #PlaneCrash #B25s #SgtJacobDeShazer #Madras #BatOutOfHell #Prisoner #Missionary #ReturnToJapan #CaptMitsuoFuchida #GenDavyJones #CoosBay #Nazis #POWcamp #TheGreatEscape #VirgilHilts |
| 2015.04.26 | The Oregonians who flew with the Doolittle raid (Part 2 of 3 on Doolittle Raiders) | OUTBACK Morrow |
1940s | #Pendleton #HenryPotter #Navigator #B25s #RobertClever #JimmyDoolittle #Revenge #ImperialJapan #JapaneseSubmarine #PlaneCrash #RobertEmmens #USSR #StrikeOnTokyo #EverettHolstrom #OSU #AllanCain #USAF |
| 2015.04.19 | Famous “Doolittle Raid” had roots in Pendleton air base (Doolittle Raiders, 1 of 3) | OUTBACK Morrow |
1940s | #Pendleton #NobuoFujita #B25s #JapaneseSubmarine #JimmyDoolittle #Revenge #ImperialJapan #Humiliation #MedalOfHonor #Airstrike #Bombers #StrikeOnTokyo #MaryClaireKendall #AllanCain #USAF |
| 2015.04.12 | French sailors miraculously saved from death on bar | COAST Clatsop |
1840s | #Shipwreck #ColumbiaRiverBar #GraveyardOfThePacific #Aground #Lifeboats #EtoileDuMatin #ArchbishopBlanchet #CaptFrancisMenes #NoBarPilot #BadMaps #KeelBrokeOff #MorningStar #OneFatality |
| 2015.04.04 | Pioneering historian earned recognition, but little money (Frances Fuller Victor, pt. 1 of 2) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #ElwoodEvans #JesseApplegate #Columbiad #TheRiverOfTheWest #MarcusWhitman #HenryVictor #TemperanceCrusaders #Suffrage #HubertHoweBancroftPlagiarist #Ghostwriter #Potboilers #MotherOfOregonHistory #OregonHistoricalSociety #Journalism #Writers #StHelens |
| 2015.03.29 | Legendary “authoress” started with poetry, dime novels (Frances Fuller Victor, 1 of 2) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1860s, 1870s | #FrancisFullerVictor #MatthewDeady #Journalist #MettaFuller #JacksonBarritt #DimeNovels #PulpFiction #CivilWar #HenryVictor #USNavy #FlorenceFane #BrotherJonathan #AddisonGibbs #OregonIronWorks #MotherOfOregonHistory #JimMartin #HazelEmeryMills #SheriBartlettBrown #Portland |
| 2015.03.22 | Civil War plotters hoped to get West Coast to secede | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1860s | #Salem #Sedition #Secession #Confederate #PacificRepublic #JosephLane #CivilWar #SouthernDemocrats #Slavery #AsahelBush #SalemClique #AlisVolatPropriis #Centennial #DorothyHull |
| 2015.03.15 | Coast Guard “Sand Pounders” kept Oregon Coast secure from Japanese invasion | COAST | 1940s | #WW2 #ImperialJapan #USCG #FortStevens #BombsOverBrookings #Beachpatrol #Horses #AWS #Nazis #DonMarshall #JamesGibbs |
| 2015.03.08 | Edgar Rice Burroughs' gold-dredge scheme failed — luckily for Tarzan fans | OUTBACK Baker |
1900s | #SnakeRiver #GoldMining #BucketLineDredge #Cowboys #Pocatello #Cavalry #Gamblers #Greenhorn #Sumpter #EmmaBurroughs #Munseys #APrincessOfMars #JohnCarterOfMars #TarzanOfTheApes #RobertFenton #IrwinPorges #EdgarRiceBurroughs |
| 2015.03.01 | Shipwrecked sailors from Emily G. Reed drifted from Oregon to Puget Sound | COAST Tillamook |
1900s | #EmilyGReed #Barque #DownEaster #CaptKessel #FredZube #Lifeboat #HighTide #RockawayBeach #Stranded #TatooshLighthouse #StraitOfJuanDeFuca #Teckla #NeahBay #TillamookBay #Survivors #LeakyBoat #LoriTobias #DonMarshall |
| 2015.02.22 | Lafe Pence's crazy plan: Move mountains down, fill up lake | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #MiningLaw #FreeSilver #PopulistParty #HouseOfRepresentatives #GuildLake #CentennialExposition #ColonelHawkins #MacleayPark #ForestPark #OlmsteadPlan #BullRun #WaterRights #BalchCreek #Fairgrounds #Flumes #Dynamite #MayorHarryLane #ScotchNubbin #BankPanic #PortOfPortland #GabrielListon |
| 2015.02.15 | Bold bandits robbed express train three miles from Roseburg | SOUTHERN Douglas |
1890s | #RoseburgPlaindealer #TrainRobbery #Railroad #JudgeCharlesBellinger #Posse #Dynamite #ShadyPoint #JackCase #JamesPoole #BobHinman #MrMorris #MrLindsey #MrHendricks #MrButler #Shotgun #MichaelWilson #Steilacoom |
| 2015.02.08 | Cow Creek Canyon robbers weren’t afraid to blow stuff up | SOUTHERN Douglas |
1890s | #Riddle #TrainRobbery #Explosions #Railroad #BaritoneBandit #Dynamite #Outlaw #JBWaite #Torpedo #EverettGray #AAFitch #SheriffCFCathcart #GeorgeQuine #StillyRiddle #GiantPowder #NicholsStation #JohnCase #CowCreek #RMichaelWilson |
| 2015.02.01 | When the rebel flag flew over Oregon soil: The last stand of the Smithfield Rebels | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1860s | #Smithfield #DixieOfTheWest #RebelYells #StarsAndBars #FederalTroops #Franklin #Cheshire #StagecoachLine #TerritorialHighway #LynchMob #LongTomRiver #AndrewMcCornack #USCavalry #DeserterArmstrong #ElwinMcCornack #GlennAplin #RandolFletcher #CivilWar #RedVsGray |
| 2015.01.25 | Oregon crooks have always enjoyed their dynamite | STATEWIDE | 1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #Extortion #FailingSchool #Jailbreak #Explosions #Murder #Robbery #DBCooper #Railroads #DavidHeesh #KellyButte #HarryEdwards #WallaWalla #GeorgeGowan #AdelineBeck #SidneyWallace #Sellwood #BlastingCaps #WilliamKessler #MountHood #TrainRobbery |
| 2015.01.18 | How to rob trains with dynamite: Tips from the pros | STATEWIDE | 1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #Satire #BillMiner #Dynamite #Robbery #Jailbreak #Punkd #Railroad #CharlesManning #AlbertMeadors #JohnCase #JamesPoole #BlackieDuQuesne #Infomercial #ExpresssCar #TrainRobbery |
| 2015.01.11 | Dynamite used to be a regular part of Oregon life | STATEWIDE | 1900s, 1910s, 1920s | #Farming #ConstructionProjects #DIYdynamite #BATF #Nitroglycerin #BlastingCap #WileECoyote #Detonator #GelatineDynamite #IrvinReed #GeorgeBanks #DynamiteKid #RichardDillon #ShanghaiingDays #CascadeLocks #Explosions |
| 2015.01.04 | Express clerk's silence foiled train robbers in Saginaw heist | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1900s | #Saginaw #Eugene #TrainRobbery #LaneCounty #Unsolved #BJLucas #Dynamite #Outlaw #Shooting #RobertGittens #CharlesCharles #EvansSontagGang #Goshen #SouthLaneCounty #ExpressCar |
| 2014.12.28 | Roseburg's Civil War “Champagne Riot” likely wasn't what you think | SOUTHERN Douglas |
1860s | #ChristmasParty #CivilWar #DixieOfTheWest #Roseburg #SouthernDemocrats #GoodesMill #JosephChampagne #SolomonCulver #JohnFitzhugh #AbeCrow #BobForbes #John Hanan #Journalist #Copperhead #FrankBarringer #Gunfight #Murder #AshClayton #TomThompson #JeffLaLande |
| 2014.12.21 | Oregon Senator Joseph Lane almost became President; luckily for everyone, he didn't | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1860s | #Salem #JosephLane #Confederate #Conspiracy #Politicians #Sedition #CultureClash #Slavery #PacificRepublic #CunningPlan |
| 2014.12.14 | Simpson timber empire made Coos Bay a shipbuilding Mecca | COAST Coos |
1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1910s | #NorthBend #Marshfield #Lumber #TimberCulture #Marine #LargerThanLife #SailingShips #Boatbuilding #NowGone |
| 2014.12.07 | Free-love “Harmonial Brotherhood” colony was a disaster (Henderson Luelling 2 of 2) | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1850s | #ConArtists #SailingShip #TigerIsland #Hydropathy #Sailors #TropicalDisease #Cult #FruitTrees #OregonTrail |
| 2014.11.30 | The father of Oregon’s nursery industry's “free-love” cult (Henderson Luelling 1 of 2) | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1850s | #HendersonLuelling #HarmonialBrotherhood #FreeLove #HygienicMedicine #CultureClash #Marine #Hubris #UnintendedConsequences |
| 2014.11.23 | Shouldn’t Oregon’s official language be Chinook? | STATEWIDE | 1830s, 1840s, 1850s | #ChinookJargon #Pidgin #ChinukWawa #Frontier #FrenchVoyageurs #TradingLanguage #Patois #OfficialStateLanguage #ConfederatedTribes #GrandRonde #OregonNativeTongue #YesPlease #ChesterFee |
| 2014.11.16 | Wreck of the steamer U.S. Grant: Baffling historical mystery | COAST Clatsop |
1870s | #Riverboat #SetAdrift #SabotageMaybe #ClintonKelly #CaptJDHGray #Ilwwaco #OregonSteamNavigationCo #Astoria #FortCanby #ColumbiaRiverBar #SandIsland #Suspicious #NauticalMystery #GraveyardOfThePacific #Astoria |
| 2014.11.09 | Nutty 1890s governor left Oregon with two Thanksgivings | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1890s | #SylvesterPennoyer #SylpesterAnnoyer #Populist #GroverCleveland #Racism #AntiChinese #FreeSilver #GoldStandard #DepressionOf1893 #HisEccentricity #FDR #DickPintarich #Holidays |
| 2014.11.02 | The short, tragic story of Portland's municipal whale | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1930s | #Portland #Columbia #Orca #CultureClash #Nimrods #Marine #ShowBiz #UnintendedConsequences #Harpoon #Whaling |
| 2014.10.26 | Scholarly Albany flyer was true father of Oregon aviation | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1910s | #JohnnyBurkhart #GeneralWillieCrawford #HenryWemme #WhiteStag #GlennCurtiss #WillLipman #AeronauticalEngineer #WrightBrothers #Cornell #Aviator #MabelGoss #WW1 #USArmy #AirCorps #Tuberculosis |
| 2014.10.19 | Offer of bonus turned out badly for owner of wrecked ship | COAST Clatsop |
1850s | #Astoria #ColumbiaRiverBar #Shipwrecks #Fatal #Irony #UnintendedConsequences #Fail #DesdemonaSands #Sailors |
| 2014.10.12 | Port Orford PR wizard managed “secession” like a movie (Jefferson Secession 2 of 2) | COAST Curry &al. |
1940s | #JosephineCounty #JacksonCounty #KlamathCounty #StateOfJefferson #MayorGilbertGable #Roadbuilding #PortOrfordHarbor #Yreka #Cavemania #DelNorteCounty #SiskiyouCounty#CrescentCity #BorderPatrol #SecessionThursdays #PearlHarbor #StantonDelaplane #RichardReinhardt |
| 2014.10.05 | Famous 1941 “secession” largely a publicity stunt (Jefferson Secession 1 of 2) | COAST Jackson &al. |
1940s | #CurryCounty #JosephineCounty #KlamathCounty #StateOfJefferson #StantonDelaplane #SanFranciscoChronicle #GilbertGable #DinosaurHunter #NavajoChief #NBCRadioStar #Paleontology #TheodoreVail #BellTelephone #Moviemaker #HighwayOfAdventure #PortOrford #ICC #Railroad #PeterLaufer |
| 2014.09.28 | Indian prince was Japan's introduction to the West (Ranald MacDonald 2 of 2) | COLUMBIA RIVER Clatsop |
1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s | #RanaldMacDonald #ChiefConcomly #PrincessRaven #Chinuk #ArchibaldMcDonald #BritishColumbia #Nagasaki #Japan #Diplomacy #WilliamGriffis #TeachingEnglish #Australia #GoldRush #FraserRiver #FortColville #JoAnnRoe |
| 2014.09.21 | A secret Native American prince's quest to reach Japan (Ranald MacDonald 1 of 2) | COLUMBIA RIVER Clatsop |
1820s, 1830s, 1840s | #RanaldMacDonald #ArchibaldMcDonald #Chinuk #Chinook #PrincessRaven #ChiefConcomly #Riverboat #TooleToole #Indian #NativeAmerican #Sailor #WhalingShip #Japan #FortVancouver #Hokkaido #JoAnnRoe |
| 2014.09.14 | Legendary “Chief Bigfoot” as elusive as his hairy namesake | OUTBACK Malheur &al. |
1860s | #BakerCounty #Sasquatch #Cryptids #NativeAmericans #Indians #BannockWar #Size17 #TJSutton #JohnWheeler #HighwayRobber #Stagecoach #Bandit #StarrWilkinson #CherokeeNation #WagonTrain #Nampa #BillGulick #JohnHailey #Racism |
| 2014.09.07 | Fred Merrill brought bikes to women; prostitutes took 'em away | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #BikeBusiness #StuntRiders #RideARambler #Velocipedes #CarrieMoor #FredMerrill #Boneshakers #OrdinaryBicycle #PennyFarthing #HenryWemme #GovernorGeer #Scorchers #WomensLiberation #Hookers #LiverpoolLiz #BicycleFace #KeepPortlandWideOpen #Promoters #StewartHolbrook #JDChandler |
| 2014.08.31 | Portland stunt made local aero-daredevil Silas Christofferson world famous | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s | #Barnstormer #MultnomahHotel #RooftopFlight #Aviator #HubertLatham #DoItFirst #Pioneer #FABennett #AutoRacing #MotorboatRacer #EmmaBecker #StuntFlying #RedwoodCity #FlyingSchool #PlaneCrash #CrossedControls #Fatal #PatrickHarris #KenScott #Promoters #Showmen |
| 2014.08.24 | Massive war game covered Central Oregon in 1943 | STATEWIDE | 1940s | #WW2 #Soldiers #Training #DeadeyeDivision #SwampAdair #PowderRiver #TimberWolves #OregonManeuver #RedVsBlue #Wagontire #JamesBradley #AlexanderPatch #CampWhite #CampAbbot #Logistics #DeschutesRiver #Burns #ItalianCampaign #GothicLine #Philippines #Okinawa #France #PhilBrogan |
| 2014.08.17 | Massive steamer wrecked by future Costa Rica Navy admiral | COAST Clatsop |
1880s | #ColumbiaRiverBar #Shipwreck #Marine #Fail #Hubris #SilverLining #SailingShip #Marine #Pilot |
| 2014.08.10 | Thousands of Oregonians remember replanting forests (Tillamook Burn 3 of 3) | COAST RANGE Tillamook |
1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s | #CoastRange #JamesJohnGradeSchool #ODF #USFS #Schoolchildren #ArthurPriaulx #WestCoastLumbermensAssoc #NelsRogers #EarlSnell #Hodags #Hoedads #TomMcCall #Wildfire #ForestFire #ReplantingProgram #MolallaGradeSchool #DonaldStotler #EllisLucia #GailWells |
| 2014.08.03 | Tillamook Burn “blew up” with shocking speed (Tillamook Burn 2 of 3) | COAST RANGE Tillamook &al. |
1930s | #WashingtonCounty #EmergencyEvacuation #CoastRange #BlowUp #Firestorms #FogBank #USFS #CCC #StateForester #LynnCronemiller #StewartHolbrook #DougDecker #Wildfire #ForestFire #SalvageLogging #JapaneseBalloonBombs #ReplantingProgram #DougKenckCrispin #AndyLindberg |
| 2014.07.27 | Massive forest fire sprang from logging crew's unwise gamble (Tillamook Burn 1 of 3) | COAST RANGE Washington |
1930s | #GyppoLoggers #GalesCreekCanyon #HighLead #Dragline #YacoltBurn #USFS #LookoutTowers #SaddleMountain #CCC #StateForester #LynnCronemiller #StewartHolbrook #DougDecker #Wildfire #ForestFire #SalvageLogging |
| 2014.07.20 | The Coyote of Portland’s waterfront mythos (Bunco Kelley 2 of 2) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s, 1890s | #ClatsopCounty #JosephKelley #BuncoKelly #SpiderJohnson #CigarStoreIndian #Hookers #Bordellos #Prostitution #FlyingPrince #SnugHarborSaloon #Crimps #JohnsonAndSons #UndertakingParlor #Formaldehyde #Astoria #GreatRumpus #Shanghaiers #SailorsBoardinghouse #Underworld #StewartHolbrook |
| 2014.07.13 | Oregon's most notorious shanghai artist: “Bunco” Kelley (Bunco Kelley 1 of 2) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s, 1890s | #JosephKelley #BuncoKelly #Crimps #Shanghaiers #SailorsBoardinghouse #WilliamKelley #HumanTrafficking #Prizefighters #Underworld #Entrepreneur #LarrySullivan #ElectionFraud #OpiumSmuggling #JamesLotan #NatBlum #GeorgeSayres #ClatsopCounty #BobGarthorn #Prison #BarneyBlalock |
| 2014.07.06 | Rumors of sunken submarines: Government denies it, but L. Ron Hubbard disagrees | COAST Tillamook |
1940s | #WW2 #ImperialJapaneseNavy #Submarines #Scientology #PulpFictionWriters #CapeKiwanda #NaziUBoat #PC815 #BattleOfCapeLookout #Airships #SC536 #RobertWood #USNavy #BombardingMexico #KathleenWallis #OregonCoastProject #TillamookBlimps #LoriTTobias #JamesBuchanan #RobertSables #DonMarshall |
| 2014.06.29 | Atlantis in the Beaver State: Underwater Lost Cities of Oregon | STATEWIDE | 1940s, 1950s | #Dams #FloodControl #KlamathJunction #EmigrantCreek #TalentIrrigationDistrict #BureauOfReclamation #Robinette #BakerCity #BrownleeReservoir #SnakeRiver #LookoutPointReservoir #Landax #Eula #Lawler #Signal #Reserve #Carter #Lowell #CorpsOfEngineers #CeliloVillage #Indians #CeliloFalls #BIA #ColumbiaRiver |
| 2014.06.22 | Pioneer Chinese doctor was a municipal treasure in John Day | NORTHEAST Grant |
1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #IngHay #DocHay #LungOn #Leon #KuLi #Coolie #Discrimination #ExclusionAct #Guangdong #Pulsologist #PontiacDealer #KamWahChung #BloodPoisoning #AMA #SpanishFlu #PandemicOf1918 #FanTan #Opium #JohnDay #JeffreyBarlow #BethHarrington |
| 2014.06.15 | Did Vortex music festival prevent riots in downtown Portland? (Part 3 of 3 on Vortex I) | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1970s | #VortexOne #VictoryInVietnam #Counterculture #GlennJackson #BobbyWehe #GlenSwift #ElectricWine #MattLove #NakedLadies #SpiroAgnew #MemorialColiseum #MeierAndFrank #DrugCulture #Youth #GovernorsPotParty |
| 2014.06.08 | Governor McCall expected “Vortex I” to cost him the election (Part 2 of 3 on Vortex I) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1970s | #Hippies #DopeSmoking #MusicFestival #TomMcCall #FBI #TheFamily #McIverStatePark #Woodstock #RonSchmidt #RobertOliver #Estacada #PortlandHilton #EricCain #Portland #NationalGuard #EdWesterdahl #RiotGear |
| 2014.06.01 | Riot at PSU set the stage for “Governor’s Pot Party” (Part 1 of 3 on Vortex I) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1970s | #RichardNixon #Cambodia #KentState #PSU #ParksBlock #TerrySchrunk #FrankIvancie #Police #DavidHorowitz #PeoplesArmyJamboree #AmericanLegion #Riots #Protests #BrandonStaley #DougKenckCrispin #AndyLindberg |
| 2014.05.25 | Pirates were defeated in Yaquina Bay Oyster War | COAST Lincoln |
1860s | #OysterPirates #Newport #JackLondon #Oysterville #SiletzIndians #Treaty #Olympia #SolomonDodge #SloopFanny #JamesWinant #SchoonerAnnieGDoyle #Royalty #DreadPirateHillyer #CordeliaTerry #USArmy #BenSimpson #Fistfight #MeiertWachsmuth #DanAndLouis #OysterBar #DonMarshall #KatyMuldoon |
| 2014.05.18 | Portland's Pioneer Square could have been a “crystal palace” | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1960s, 1970s, 1980s | #UrbanRenewal #RobertMoses #LawrenceHalprin #ErnieBonner #RandyGragg #PortlandDevelopmentCommission #Hippies #PioneerCourthouse #SexBums #GlassAtrium #DesignCompetition #WillardMartin #JDouglasMacy #TerrenceODonnell #SpencerGill #LeeKelly #BrickSales #MollyOReilly #GreggKantor |
| 2014.05.11 | NASA's “Moon Trees” have roots in an Oregon forest fire | STATEWIDE | 1970s | #StuartRoosa #Astronaut #ScottLeavengood #Smokejumpers #USAF #TestPilots #ApolloSpaceProgram #TreeSeedsOnTheMoon #AlShepard #EdMitchell #GolfBalls #Bicentennial #MoonLandrieu #WillametteHall #UO #OSU #PeavyHall #DarrellJabin #DavidWilliams |
| 2014.05.04 | The mysterious disappearance of a schooner's entire crew | COAST Clatsop |
1880s | #JCCousins #PilotBoat #Schooner #Astoria #ColumbiaRiverBar #TugboatMaryTaylor #AbandonShip #Zeiber #Xtheories #GhostShip #JamesGibbs #LewisAndDryden #MaritimeMystery #SailedByItself |
| 2014.04.27 | Japanese shipwrecks on Oregon Coast likely predate Columbus | COAST | 1830s | #John Ottoson #HojunMaru #Otokichi #Shogunate #KuroshioCurrent #Shipwreck #CharlesBrooks #BlownOutToSea #NorthPacificCurrent #Junks #CapeFlattery #MakahTribe #Iwakichi #JohnMcLoughlin #HudsonsBayCo #ThomasMcKay #CassandraTate #JamesGibbs |
| 2014.04.20 | Bad batch of “dehorn” alcohol killed 28 hobos on Skid Road | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1930s | #WoodAlcohol #DenaturedAlcohol #BenVotruba #CannedHeatKing #Sterno #Squeeze #PioneerDrugstore #Poison #FormicAcid #Coma #Fatal #SolomonMiller #Murder #Manslaughter #Methanol #MassCasualty #FrankMenne |
| 2014.04.13 | Beavercreek Bomber: Give me $1 million or the lights go out | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1970s | #Brightwood #BPA #BonnevilleDam #HighVoltage #Dynamite #Maupin #TheDalles #Ransom #Extortion #Jayhawker #RVOVN #FBI #ForestFire #BullRun #DuckCall #CBRadio #MorseCode #TriangulatedSignal #SoutheastPortland #DavidHeesch #SheilaHeesch #Terrorism |
| 2014.04.06 | Cayuse tribe's world-beating ponies are now very rare | OUTBACK Morrow &al. |
1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s | #JoeCrabb #HorseRace #Betting #HowlishWampoo #WallaWalla #NezPerce #Umatilla #Cayuse #IndianTribes #WilliamLyman #OMCanfield #PendletonBankrupt #CayusePony #SpanishBarbs #Percherons #RachelBerry #JeffEdwards #PendletonRoundUp #JonDonnaSkovlin #WilliamLyman |
| 2014.03.30 | Iconic movies filmed in Oregon, Part Three: 1975-1989 | STATEWIDE | 1970s, 1980s | #Movies #Famous #FishermansBride #Astoria #TheGeneral #CottageGrove #BusterKeaton #WreckedLocomotive #RowRiver #RachelAndTheStranger #Springfield #Eugene #BendOfTheRiver #BillGulick #JimmyStewart #ColumbiaRiver #Sternwheelers #Henderson #Portland |
| 2014.03.23 | Iconic movies filmed in Oregon, Part Two: 1965-1975 | STATEWIDE | 1960s, 1970s | #Shenandoah #Mohawk #Marcola #JoeDairy #AnneRichardson #PaintYourWagon #Musical #BakerCity #ClintEastwood #LeeMarvin #SometimesAGreatNotion #PaulNewman #KenKesey #RoosterCogburn #JohnWayne #KatharineHepburn #RogueRiver #CuckoosNest #JackNicholson #OregonStateHospital |
| 2014.03.16 | Iconic movies shot in Oregon, Part One: 1908 to 1952 | STATEWIDE | 1900s, 1920s, 1940s, 1950s | #Movies #Famous #AppleDumplingGang #Disney #DonKnotts #DeschutesCounty #TheShining #TimberlineLodge #AnimalHouse #UO #WilliamBoyd #JohnsonHall #Fishbowl #Goonies #Astoria #OregonFilmMuseum #StandByMe #CottageGrove #BlueGoose #SteamTrain #RowRiver #DrugstoreCowboy #GusVanSant |
| 2014.03.09 | Brutal “Oregon Boot” made our state prison famous | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1900s | #Salem #Jailbreak #Cops #Prison #Invention #GardinerShackle #BallAndChain #OregonStatePenitentiary #Injury |
| 2014.03.02 | After logger's murder, bordello madam mysteriously vanished | SOUTHERN Klamath |
1910s | #KlamathFalls #Prostitution #BridgeOfSighs #JohnHunsaker #LinkRiver #AxMurder #CharlesLyons #StukelMountain #BenRobbs #FayeMelbourne #RedHouse #CometLodging #OldManHaley #BawdyHouse #ChiefSamuelWalker #MelanyTupper #ShallowGrave |
| 2014.02.23 | Hank Vaughan in middle age: The outlaw as elder statesman (Part 3 of 3 on Hank Vaughan) | COLUMBIA RIVER Umatilla &al. |
1880s | #WascoCounty #LaneCounty #Auburn |
| 2014.02.16 | Becoming the West's most successful rustler (Part 2 of 3 on Hank Vaughan) | OUTBACK Wasco &al. |
1870s, 1880s | #UmatillaCounty #TheDalles |
| 2014.02.09 | Legendary hell-raising rustler Hank Vaughan: The early years (Part 1 of 3 on Hank Vaughan) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane &al. |
1860s, 1870s, 1880s | #WascoCounty #UmatillaIndians |
| 2014.02.02 | Opium culture a long-forgotten part of the urban underworld | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #OpiumDens #Chinatown #Smugglers #Slumming |
| 2014.01.26 | "Black Bart" Bolton: Charming gentleman by day, highway robber by night | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1870s, 1880s | #StagecoachRobber #Bandit #CharlesBoles |
| 2014.01.19 | Portland is home of PT-658, the world's only working PT boat from WWII | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1990s, 2000s | #WW2 #USNavy |
| 2014.01.12 | George Baker, Portland's Vaudeville mayor, made city famous (and infamous) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s, 1920s | #BakerStockTheatre #Vaudeville #Players |
| 2014.01.05 | The Oregonian burgled mayoral candidate Will Daly's home to swing election against him | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s | #HenryPittock #Unions #Jitneys #Burglary #DirtyTricks |
| 2013.12.29 | Wives were stripped of American citizenship at the altar | STATEWIDE | 1910s, 1920s | #WW1 #Stateless #Immigrants |
| 2013.12.22 | Bad recording technique led FBI to investigate “Louie Louie” | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1960s | #TheKingsmen #MerseyBeat |
| 2013.12.15 | The game of Faro was a crooked gambler's dream | STATEWIDE | 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #Blackleg #Cheating #Casino |
| 2013.12.08 | Taming of the Rascal: Edouard Chambreau's redemption (Part 2 of 2) | OUTBACK Wasco &al. |
1860s, 1870s | #MultnomahCounty #Gambler #Swindler #Saloonkeeper #TemperanceCrusaders |
| 2013.12.01 | Edouard Chambreau gave a swindler's-eye view of old Oregon (Part 1 of 2) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Clackamas &al. |
1840s, 1850s, 1860s | #MultnomahCounty #LiquorPeddler #ConArtist |
| 2013.11.24 | “Blue Ruin” drove lawmakers to drink — and prohibition | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Clackamas |
1840s | #Champoeg #Portland #Willamette #Smuggling #Cops #Bootlegging #Indians #CultureClash #Distillery #Temperance #BlueRuin #WilliamJohnson #Prohibition |
| 2013.11.17 | Palatial riverboat Alaskan was caught in a hurricane on the open sea | COAST Clatsop |
1880s | #Sidewheel #Steamboat #Shipwreck #Fatal #ColumbiaRiverBar |
| 2013.11.10 | Outlaw Bill Miner's first train robbery was a fiasco | COLUMBIA RIVER Multnomah |
1900s | #Portland #TrainRobbery #Shooting #Dynamite #Explosion #DumbCrooks #CultureClash #Irony #Railroad #Stagecoach #Fail #Unlucky |
| 2013.11.03 | Was suspicious death in “The Boneyard” really a murder? | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s | #BoneyardMary #Disappearance #WetHat #Scow |
| 2013.10.27 | Vigilantes went too far with murder of suspected rustler | NORTHEAST Wallowa |
1880s | #Murder #Vigilante #LynchMob #CultureClash #Rustlers #Cowboys #Feud #Livestock #OpenRange |
| 2013.10.20 | The life and death of a Portland gangster and his “moll” | PDX METRO Columbia |
1930s | #JakeSilverman #ShyFrankKodat #RoyMoore #Gangsters #Underworld #Speakeasy #Bordello #38Special #JimmyWalker #Gun #EdithMcClain #Accidental #LMorgan #ZellsJewelers #Robbery #Prison #Jailbirds #ShotInTheBack #StudebakerPresident #Scappoose #Portland #TakenForARide #Tuberculosis #HalfwayHouse |
| 2013.10.13 | Voice of Goofy, Bluto and Grumpy was Oregon's “Pinto” Colvig | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s | #PintoColvig #WaltDisney #Animator #BozoTheClown |
| 2013.10.05 | Legendary Civil War ship came to ignominious end in Coos Bay | COAST Coos |
1880s | #GussieTelfair #Gertrude #BlockadeRunner |
| 2013.09.29 | The mysterious skeletons of Crater Lake National Park | SOUTHERN Klamath |
1940s, 1970s, 1980s | #DavePanebaker #USNavy #GrummanHellcat #CharlesMcCullar #DaveNunn |
| 2013.09.22 | When the “Dark Strangler” stalked the streets of Portland | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1920s | #EarleNelson #SerialKiller #Landladies |
| 2013.09.15 | Train robbery turned into on-board gunfight with the law | NORTHEAST Union &al. |
1910s | #MorrowCounty #Robbery #Shooting #Dynamite #Cops #DumbCrooks #Irony #Railroad #Fail #Unlucky #CarTheft |
| 2013.09.08 | 1890s “march on Washington” involved train hijackings | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s | #CoxeysArmy #PanicOf1893 |
| 2013.09.01 | Valsetz newspaper and its editor, age 9, won nationwide fame | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Polk |
1930s | #DorothyAnneHobson #ValsetzStar |
| 2013.08.25 | Shevlin: Oregon's wandering timber town | CASCADE RANGE Deschutes &al. |
1920s, 1930s, 1940s | #LakeCounty #RailroadTown #ShevlinHixonTimberCo |
| 2013.08.18 | Tawdry love triangle ends in murder — and a kiss from a corpse | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #LuluReynolds #CharlesReynolds #UnwrittenLaw #ProfessorHerbert |
| 2013.08.11 | Race exclusion of early Oregon is still embarrassing today | STATEWIDE | 1850s | #OregonCity #ClackamasCounty #OregonTrail #Politicians #CultureClash #Racism #Black #Fail #LashLaw #Confederates #Slavery |
| 2013.08.04 | Bootlegger’s paradise: Oregon’s Prohibition adventures | STATEWIDE | 1920s, 1930s | #Rumrunners #Bootleggers #Smugglers |
| 2013.07.28 | Mob racketeers, corrupt union men battled over pinball | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1940s, 1950s | #BigJimElkins #StanTerry #Teamsters |
| 2013.07.21 | When steamboats exploded on the upper Willamette | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Clackamas &al. |
1850s | #MarionCounty #YamhillCounty #Canemah #Gazelle #BoilerExplosion |
| 2013.07.14 | Oregon's Harry Lane: A real hero of the First World War | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s | #WoodrowWilson #WW1 #VotedNo |
| 2013.07.07 | McCarty Gang's Oregon story: “Bonanza” meets “Unforgiven” | OUTBACK Wallowa &al. |
1890s | #HarneyCounty #BakerCounty #Shooting #BankRobbery #Outlaws #Family #Shootout #BadGuys #DumbCrooks #Fail #Cowboys #WildWest #Gang |
| 2013.06.30 | Frontier journalists settled their differences with a gunfight | SOUTHERN Douglas |
1870s | #Roseburg #Shooting #Gunfight #Journalism #BudThompson #Confederate #Revenge #Vigilante #Plaindealer #Ensign #Politics |
| 2013.06.23 | What really happened to D.B. Cooper? Pick a theory (Part 4 of 4 on D.B. Cooper) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1970s | #DailyJournalOfCommerce #DBCooper #MaxGunther #TrueMagazine #StagMags #Pulp #BarbaraDayton #Transgender #RichardMcCoy #BernieRhodes #DuaneWeber #KennyChristensen #SkippPorteous #RobertBlevins #MarlaCooper #LDCooper |
| 2013.06.16 | The hunt for D.B. Cooper: Searching for the drop zone (Part 3 of 4 on D.B. Cooper) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1970s | #PDX #Portland #RalphHimmelsbach #FBI #Boeing727 #SearchAndRescue #ThanksgivingWeekend #Murders #LakeMerwin #Psychics #JohnBanks #BrianIngram #TenaBar #SkippPorteous |
| 2013.06.09 | The deplaning of D.B.: Getting away with the loot, or not (Part 2 of 4 on D.B. Cooper) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1970s | #PDX #Portland #ColumbiaRiver #Unsolved #Parachutes #Airstairs #Journalism #FuelTruck #VaporLock #FrozenNozzle #FBI #NavyBack #MexicoCity #Reno #AftStairway #RichardTosaw #Norjack |
| 2013.06.02 | The D.B. Cooper skyjacking legend took flight out of PDX (Part 1 of 4 on D.B. Cooper) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1970s | #PDX #Portland #FlorenceSchaffner #Bomb #Manhunt #TinaMucklow #Dynamite #Hijack #Robbery #DBCooper #DanCooper #Thanksgiving #NorthwestOrient #Flight305 #Seattle #GeoffreyGray #RalphHimmelsbach #Norjack #Interphone #Boeing727 |
| 2013.05.26 | Joseph bank robber became VP of the bank he once robbed | NORTHEAST Wallowa |
1890s, 1920s | #BankRobbery #Shooting #Outlaw #LynchMob #DavidTucker #DaveTucker #Jail #Gunfight #FirstBankOfJoseph #FirstNationalBank #CyrusFitzhugh #JamesBrown #JohnMartin #Sheepman #JDMcCully #AlexDonnelly #FredWagner #Winchester4570 #MinnieProebstel #RussellMcCully #JamesYuksavitch #BenBrown |
| 2013.05.18 | A town's special friendship with its onetime would-be destroyer (Part 2 of 2 on Fujita) | COAST Curry |
1960s | #NobuoFujita #SamuraiSword #BrookingsJayCees #JuniorChamberOfCommerce #AzaleaFestival #DoyleRausch #DougPeterson #BillMcChesney #FloatPlane #Bombing #KeyToTheCity #Mitsukaido #FredHummel #RedwoodTree |
| 2013.05.12 | The flying Samurai who attacked Oregon (Part 1 of 2 on Fujita) | COAST Curry |
1940s | #NobuoFujita #BombsOverBrookings #ImperialJapan #WW2 #SubmarineI25 #ShojiOkuda #YokosukaE14Y #DoolittleRaids #ImperialJapan #BandonFire #TillamookBurn #Kamikaze #BillMcCash #EnzoAngelucci |
| 2013.05.05 | Did Oregon miss a chance to catch the Zodiac Killer? | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1950s | #EdwardEdwards #ManWithTheHook #LarryPeyton #BeverlyAllan #Murders #CraterLake #ForestPark #Stabbing #ShootBack #32automatic #SerialKiller #PhilStanford #PtownBooks #Scapegoat #BonfireParty #RailroadJob |
| 2013.04.28 | Corruption, hypocrisy and the fall of the house of Klux (Part 3 of 3 on the Ku Klux Klowns) | STATEWIDE | 1920s | #Sedition #Vigilante #Terrorist #Anonymous #Progressivism #DumbCrooks #ConArtist #CultureClash #Racism #Black #Chinese #Jewish #Catholic |
| 2013.04.21 | The Rise of the House of Klux: How KKK took over (Part 2 of 3 on the Ku Klux Klowns) | STATEWIDE Multnomah |
1920s | #Sedition #Vigilante #Terrorist #Anonymous #Progressivism #DumbCrooks #ConArtist #CultureClash #Racism #Black #Chinese #Jewish #Catholic |
| 2013.04.14 | Rise of KKK in Oregon: A racist moneymaking scheme (Part 1 of 3 on the Ku Klux Klowns) | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1920s | #Sedition #Vigilante #Terrorist #Anonymous #Progressivism #DumbCrooks #ConArtist #CultureClash #Racism #Black #Chinese #Jewish #Catholic |
| 2013.04.07 | Massive 1934 Portland dock strike paralyzed the state | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1930s | #Portland #UnionBusting #SpecialPolice #ILA #OpenShop #ClosedShop #SenatorRobertWagner #Longshoremen #NationalRecoveryAct #FDR #Scabs #Police #NationalGuard #PublicRelations #AdmiralEvans #BloodyThursday #MayorJosephCarson #GovernorJuliusMeier #Bulls |
| 2013.03.31 | Union squabbles were part of life on Portland waterfront | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s, 1910s, 1920s | #Strikes #LongshoremensUnion #SpecialPolice |
| 2013.03.24 | Bridge-building scandal aroused fury of 1920s Portland | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1920s | #Portland #Corruption #Swindle #KuKluxKlan #Irony #DumbCrooks #Hubris #Theft #Recall #Election |
| 2013.03.17 | Massive passenger liner won race against fiery death | COAST Coos |
1910s | #FireAboard #Steamship #Congress #CoosBay #Marshfield |
| 2013.03.10 | Rabies epidemic was like a war in Eastern Oregon | STATEWIDE | 1910s | #Coyotes #Hydrophobia |
| 2013.03.03 | Early anti-prostitution crusade was an embarrassing fizzle | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s | #ViceCrusade #Progressives #HomeForFallenWomen |
| 2013.02.24 | A deadly maritime concert of timidity and incompetence | COAST Coos |
1910s | #Steamship #Czarina #Shipwreck #CoosBay |
| 2013.02.17 | “Camp Castaway” was an inconvenient miracle | COAST Coos |
1850s | #CoosBaySpit #Schooner #CaptainLincoln #Shipwreck #Salvage |
| 2013.02.09 | First public execution in Portland still surrounded with mystery | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1850s | #DanfordBalch #MortimerStump #StarkStreetFerry #Shotgun |
| 2013.02.02 | Mill owner's fight with city sparked anti-Japanese riot | COAST RANGE Lincoln |
1920s | #Toledo #Vigilante #LynchMob #Riot #Racism #CultureClash #TimberCulture #Japanese #Fail #LaborStrife #CompanyTown #Spruce |
| 2013.01.27 | Radical Wobblies found support among Oregon loggers | STATEWIDE | 1910s | #TimberCountry #LumberCamps #LaborStrife #WageCuts #War #CultureClash #TimberCulture #SurpriseUpset #Underdog |
| 2013.01.20 | In Great War, Allies flew planes made of Oregon spruce | COAST | 1910s | #SitkaSpruce #USArmy #SoldierLoggers |
| 2013.01.13 | Gun-toting “Oregon Wildcat” was America’s first “shock jock” | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1930s | #RobertGordonDuncan #RadioPioneer #KVEP #JailSentence |
| 2013.01.06 | Larry Sullivan's internationally notorious shanghaiing syndicate (Part 2 of 2) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s, 1900s | #Portland #Astoria #Crimping #Liquor #Boxing #BadGuy #Politician #VoterFraud #Corruption #Shakedown #Marine |
| 2012.12.30 | Larry Sullivan: Boxer, politician, con artist, shanghai man | COAST Clatsop &al. |
1880s, 1890s | #MultnomahCounty #Portland #Astoria #Crimping #Liquor #Boxing #BadGuy #Politician #VoterFraud #Corruption #Shakedown #Marine |
| 2012.12.23 | Chemawa School: An Oregon cultural treasure | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1880s, 1890s, 1900s to present | #Salem #Indian #Native #BoardingSchool #Progressive #Fail #CultureClash #UnintendedConsequences #Underdog #Misunderstood #Kids |
| 2012.12.16 | Jim Turk: Shanghaiier, swindler, drunkard, millionaire | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s, 1880s | #Portland #Astoria #Crimping #BadGuy #Shanghaiing #Liquor #Marine #Waterfront #Corruption #SpousalAbuse |
| 2012.12.09 | Visit to Portland ended with life in prison | PDX METRO Multnomah &al. |
1870s | #JosephSwards #BadCompany #SeePortlandAndDie #Robbery #Fatal |
| 2012.12.02 | The fall of the Prineville Vigilantes (Part 2 of 2 on Prineville Vigilantes) | OUTBACK Crook |
1880s | #Prineville #CrookCounty #Terrorism #Vigilante #Outlaw #LynchMob #Gunfight #BudThompson #Cattlemen #RangeWar #Corruption |
| 2012.11.25 | When the Vigilantes ruled Prineville (Part 1 of 2 on Prineville Vigilantes) | OUTBACK Crook |
1880s | #Prineville #CrookCounty #Terrorism #Vigilante #Outlaw #LynchMob #Gunfight #BudThompson #Cattlemen #RangeWar #Corruption |
| 2012.11.18 | Horrifying asylum kitchen mix-up left dozens dead | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1940s | #OregonStateHospital #ScrambledEggs #StrychninePoisoning #WW2 |
| 2012.11.11 | Courthouse square once was the site of palatial “Hotel Portland” | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s, 1900s, 1950s | #PioneerCourthouseSquare #VillardsFolly |
| 2012.11.04 | Boozy generosity turned the tables for the Prineville Nine that day | OUTBACK Crook |
1910s | #ThomasLawson #DorothyMcCall #TomMcCall #Baseball #SportsBetting |
| 2012.10.28 | Senator John H. Mitchell: The Snidely Whiplash of Oregon | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s | #Portland #USSenate #Chasrismatic #Bigamist #Theft #Bribery #Corruption #Irony #Fugitive #FirstestMostest #Hipple #Criminal |
| 2012.10.21 | Long-lost Guild's Lake was once Portland's water wonderland | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #LewisAndClarkExposition #Centennial |
| 2012.10.14 | Mysterious skeletons of Oregon: If only these bones could speak ... | STATEWIDE | 1910s, 1920s, 2010s | #PetersCreekSink #Sandy #ScioOddFellows #MementoMori |
| 2012.10.07 | Deadly weather catches Oregon by surprise when it comes | STATEWIDE | 1880s, 1900s, 1960s | #ColumbusDayStorm #Tornadoes #FlashFloods |
| 2012.09.30 | Auburn: A long-gone gold town's short but colorful past | OUTBACK Baker |
1860s | #GoldMining #BoomTown #ChinaCreek |
| 2012.09.23 | Buck Rogers-style police boat didn't work out for Portland | PDX METRO Multnomah &al. |
1930s | #VictorStrode #Aerohydrocraft #PortlandHarbor #AmbulanceBoat |
| 2012.09.16 | Oregon's most famous elephant led a colorful and tragic life | PDX METRO Multnomah &al. |
1920s, 1930s | #MarionCounty #PoorOldTusko #TheGreatUnwanted #Ned #LotusIsle |
| 2012.09.09 | The story of Lotus Isle, Oregon's most surreal amusement park | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1920s, 1930s | #Portland #HaydenIsland #Columbia #GhostTown #Fatal #CunningPlan #ShowBiz #Charismatic #Irony #Fail #Marathon #Tusko |
| 2012.09.02 | Fort Rock's legendary Reub Long could spin a wild “tall tale” | OUTBACK Lake |
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s | #GreatLiars #BighornSheep #WhitewashingARat |
| 2012.08.26 | Schemers sought to seize Peter Iredale shipwreck, sell for scrap | COAST Clatsop |
1960s | #Warrenton #Shipwreck #NationallyFamous #Swindle #Theft #Fail #Irony #Marine #Salvage #CunningPlan |
| 2012.08.19 | Apollo 15 astronaut left a piece of Oregon lava on the moon | CASCADE RANGE Deschutes |
1970s | #JimIrwin #OregonLava #MoonCountry |
| 2012.08.12 | Before newspaper “crusade,” tainted milk was killing babies | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #Portland #Corruption #Progressive #BadCops #Food #Journalism #Muckrakers #Underdog #Tuberculosis #Regulation |
| 2012.08.05 | Long-gone dance hall hosted Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, more | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1940s, 1950s | #CottonwoodsDanceHall #Lebanon |
| 2012.07.29 | Rusty derelict turned out to be historic Liberty Ship lifeboat | COLUMBIA RIVER Columbia |
1940s, 2000s | #GlobeAmericaCorp #Lifeboat #WW2 |
| 2012.07.22 | Busting out of the joint was a job for a safecracker, 100 years ago | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1900s, 1910s, 1920s | #Jailbreak #PrisonEscapes #Yeggs #ThreeMinuteWagner |
| 2012.07.15 | Prison break happened during “conjugal visit” at cheap motel | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion &al. |
1970s | #LaneCounty #CarlCletusBowles #CopKiller #Murderer |
| 2012.07.08 | Quest for “Lost Cabin Gold Mine” led to discovery of Crater Lake | SOUTHERN Klamath &al. |
1840s, 1850s | #JacksonCounty #OldSetEmUp |
| 2012.07.01 | The heroic final flight of Cottage Grove's Jim Wright | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
2000s | #Heroes #HowardHughes #H1Racer #Smithsonian #WorldRecord #Oshkosh #CottageGrove #CottageGroveSentinel #MatthewTreder #JaredPaben #ArtDeco WrightMachineTools #BettyWright #GuyRalstin #DennisParker #MikeMann #DavePayne #AlSherman #RonEnglund #SteveWolf #EAA #JimmyLeeward #PropellerCounterweights #RenoAirRaces #Fatality #YellowstoneNP #StateAirport #ChenFamily |
| 2012.07.01 | Crooked gambler and liquor man was Portland's first police chief | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1850s, 1860s, 1870s | #Portland #BadCops #Blackleg #Faro #Outlaw #Corruption #Hookers #Liquor #OroFinoSaloon #JamesLappeus |
| 2012.06.24 | In 1880s, salmon were the real “most dangerous catch” | COAST Clatsop |
1880s, 1890s | #Astoria #ColumbiaRiverBar #Gillnetters #Drownings |
| 2012.06.17 | Oregon lost world's biggest log cabin in spectacular 1964 fire | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1960s | #LewisAndClarkExposition #ForestryBuilding |
| 2012.06.10 | The mysterious demise of the S.S. South Coast: What happened? | COAST Coos |
1930s | #SteamSchooner #Shipwreck #Mystery #Disappeared |
| 2012.06.03 | How Oregon almost lost public access to its beaches | COAST Clatsop |
1960s | #BeachBill #TomMcCall |
| 2012.05.27 | Oregon's first female lawyer: A legal Mother Teresa? (Part 3 of 3 on Mary Leonard) | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s, 1900s, 1910s | #MaryLeonard #LadyLawyer #Portland |
| 2012.05.20 | Pioneering Oregon “lady lawyer” deserved a better legacy (Part 2 of 3 on Mary Leonard) | PDX METRO Multnomah &al. |
1870s, 1880s, 1890s | #WascoCounty #MaryLeonard #BoardinghouseKeeper #AttorneyAtLaw |
| 2012.05.13 | Oregon's first female lawyer faced trial for murder (Part 1 of 3 on Mary Leonard) | COLUMBIA RIVER Wasco |
1870s | #MaryLeonard #MailOrderBride #SpousalAbuse #Murder |
| 2012.05.06 | “Roaring Twenties” murder mystery solved by cop's diligence | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1920s | #RailroadBull #GangOfThieves #Shootout #BoxcarMurder #DanCasey |
| 2012.04.29 | Giant skeleton find recalled old legend of pirate treasure | COAST Lincoln |
1930s | #SalmonRiver #CampWestwind #BuriedTreasure |
| 2012.04.22 | Historic mansion was once home of Portland “starvation cult” | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s | #Portland #Cult #Fatal #Progressives #Charismatic #Mystery #Prayer #Fasting #GeorgeWilliams #Mayor #FaithHealer |
| 2012.04.15 | Oregon man's Supreme Court confirmation scotched by his wife | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1870s | #GeorgeWilliams #KateAnnWilliams #PillowTalk #USSenate |
| 2012.04.08 | Mass murderer honored in monument at county courthouse | NORTHEAST Wallowa |
1870s, 1930s, present | #Enterprise #ChineseMassacreCove #Outlaw #Shootout #Fatal #CultureClash #Racism #Chinese #Mystery #Underdog #Pioneers |
| 2012.04.01 | Mariner survived shipwreck by being trapped in the wreckage | COAST Clatsop |
1910s | #GasolineSchooner #Oshkosh #ColumbiaRiverBar #GeorgeMay |
| 2012.03.25 | Shanghaied in Astoria: Port city was once a perilous place | COAST Clatsop |
1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #ShanghaiedInAstoria #Shanghaiing #Crimping #Waterfront #Kidnappers #Boxing #Preacher #Sailors #SailingShip #BloodMoney #MarthaMcKeown #MontHawthorne #GeorgeGrannis #RichardDillon #SailorsBoardinghouse #BoardingMasters |
| 2012.03.18 | “Oregon’s Outback” was a real moonshiner's paradise in ’20s | OUTBACK | 1920s, 1930s | #Bend #Explosion #Dynamite #BuckMariott #CMcBride #ProhibitionOfficers #ValeTaylor #Bootleggers #Moonshine #Prineville #OswaldWest #Rumrunners #Smugglers #BathtubGin #DavidBraly #JohnKaboris #Booze #BlueRuin |
| 2012.03.11 | Postwar Portland turned away Nat “King” Cole, Billie Holiday | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1940s, 1950s | #Portland #DudeRanch #Jazz #Racism #Promoters #ShowBiz #WilliamsAve #Black #RobertDietsch #Jumptown #RoseQuarter #Vanport #Shipyards #Albina #PicAndPat #UrbanRenewal #ShakeDancers #UrbanCowboys |
| 2012.03.04 | Cruise-ship skipper wasn’t the first to “fall into a lifeboat” | COAST Curry |
1900s | #Steamship #SouthPortland #Shipwreck #CapeBlanco |
| 2012.02.26 | Incompetent opium smugglers had friend in high places | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s | #Portland #Smuggling #Corruption #DumbCrooks #NatBlum #WilliamDunbar #JamesLotan #CustomsInspector #Republican #StarkStreetFerry #BullRunWater #ArlingtonClub #MerchantsSteamship #Opium #Chinese #SeidBack #Waterfront #CharlesLadd #HumanTrafficking #KimbarkMacColl |
| 2012.02.19 | First seaworthy log raft helped Oregon build city of San Diego | COLUMBIA RIVER Columbia &al. |
1900s, 1910s 1920s, 1930s | #ClatsopCounty #Offshore #OregonCoast #ColumbiaRiver #Inventors #TimberCulture #Marine #Logging #FirstestMostest #SimonBenson |
| 2012.02.12 | Fog made the difference between a reprimand and a medal | COAST Lincoln |
1950s | #USCG #Rescue #MotorLifeboat #ThomasMcAdams |
| 2012.02.05 | Homesteader’s plan to get extra land involved bigamy, murder | CASCADE RANGE Hood River |
1900s | #NormanWilliams #AlmaNesbitt #Bigamy #LandFraud #Murder |
| 2012.01.29 | Forty-day debauch made Oregon legislature nationally notorious | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1890s | #JonathanBourneJr #HoldUpSession #JohnHMitchell #JohnHipple #OregonLegislature #USSenate #1896 #BourneMills #WhalingShips #NorthEnd #Portland #SouthernPacific #Bribery #FreeSilver #GoldStandard #EldridgeBlock #BournesHarem #HenryCorbett #JosephSimon #EKimbarkMacColl #WalterMPierce #WickedPortland |
| 2012.01.22 | Coast Guard catastrophe sprang from bad boat design (Part 2 of 2 on the Triumph incident) | COAST Clatsop |
1960s | #MotorLifeboat #52foot #Rescue #Mermaid #ColumbiaRiverBar |
| 2012.01.15 | USCG's worst Columbia disaster started as routine (Part 1 of 2 on the Triumph incident) | COAST Clatsop |
1960s | #USCG #MotorLifeboats #36foot #Rescue #Mermaid #ColumbiaRiverBar |
| 2012.01.08 | Tangent City Hall office cat was the city's landlord | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1980s, 1990s | #KittyKat #Richest #Landlord #Tomcat #Barn #CityHall #JohnBass #BigRedBarn #DairyFarm #Tangent #RichestCat #GeorgiaEdwards #ADA #AlexPaul #AlbanyDemocratHerald |
| 2012.01.01 | Oregon City was home of world's first electric power grid | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1880s, 1890s | #WillametteFalls #Hydroelectric #HighTension |
| 2011.12.25 | Dory fisherman rescues stranded sailors — from Coast Guard boat | COAST Curry |
1940s | #PortOrford #USCG #MotorLifeboat #34foot |
| 2011.12.18 | “Voice of Looney Toons” was the terror of his Portland high school | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s | #MelBlanc #VoiceOfBugsBunny #LincolnHighSchool #WarnerBros |
| 2011.12.11 | The Port Orford Meteorite: Was it all a big hoax? | COAST Curry |
1850s, 1860s | #Pallasite #DrJohnEvans |
| 2011.12.04 | Missing gold suggests something sinister in shipwreck mystery | COAST Clatsop |
1870s | #Schooner #Sunshine #Shipwreck #Mystery |
| 2011.11.28 | Portland was the scene of Sammy Davis Jr.'s big break | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1940s | #RatPack #WillMastinTrio #Showman #FrankSinatra |
| 2011.11.21 | Black sheep of the Union Army was Oregon's last Civil War veteran | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Linn |
1860s, 1950s | #JamesWSmith #Olneys40Thieves #TheodorePenland |
| 2011.11.14 | Oregon's distinctive bridge style is Conde McCullough's legacy | STATEWIDE | 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s | #BridgeDesign #OSU #Architect |
| 2011.11.07 | Captain's quick decision saved hundreds from a fiery death | COLUMBIA RIVER Clatsop |
1880s | #UriahBScott #Riverboat #Telephone #Fire |
| 2011.10.31 | Steamboat monopoly's clever coup ended up costing them plenty | COLUMBIA RIVER Columbia |
1870s, 1880s | #OregonRailwayNavigation #UriahBScott #Riverboat #Fleetwood |
| 2011.10.24 | They laughed at Captain Scott's ugly little riverboat ... at first. | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Multnomah |
1870s | #UriahBScott #Riverboat #Ohio #ShallowDraft |
| 2011.10.17 | For one Oregon slave, Civil War didn't end bondage | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton |
1860s, 1870s | #Ame #SlaveOfJohnAndMaryPorter #EmancipationProclamation |
| 2011.10.10 | Rascally sea-captain was like a 19th-century Han Solo | COAST Clatsop |
1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s | #JemmyJones #SteamSchooner #Inventor |
| 2011.10.03 | Aurora Colony showcased the best of American utopian movement | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1850s, 1860s, 1870s | #WilhelmKeil #Commune #PreservedInWhiskey |
| 2011.09.26 | Oregon embraced Carnegie libraries like no other state | STATEWIDE | 1890s, 1900s | #Progressives #Philanthropy #Culture #Literature #Promoter #Structure #Kids #Books #Education |
| 2011.09.19 | Astoria man set out to do something nice for his wife, invented cable TV | COAST Clatsop |
1940s | #EdParsons #Television #AstorHotel #CATV |
| 2011.09.12 | "Professor" Ray V.B. Jackson: Central Oregon's "Angel of Death" (Part 2 of 2 on R.V.B. Jackson) | OUTBACK Lake |
1900s, 1910s, 1920s | #SerialKiller #Schoolteacher |
| 2011.09.04 | Silver Lake schoolteacher-felon may have been a serial killer (Part 1 of 2 on R.V.B. Jackson) | OUTBACK Lake |
1900s, 1910s, 1920s | #Professor #RayVanBurenJackson #Jailbird #Murderer |
| 2011.08.28 | Ship sailed across two miles of sandy beach, relaunched itself | COAST Clatsop |
1920s | #Schooner #NorthBend #Shipwreck #Salvage |
| 2011.08.21 | First youth symphony in U.S. came out of Oregon's high desert | OUTBACK Harney |
1910s | #SagebrushSymphony #PortlandYouthPhilharmonic #Burns |
| 2011.08.14 | Vaudeville's famous “Klondike Kate” became a Central Oregon legend | OUTBACK Deschutes |
1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s | #KathleenRockwell #Homesteader #Brothers #YukonGoldRush |
| 2011.08.07 | Space-age whalers help grow fur coats, put a man on the moon | COAST Clatsop |
1960s | #Hammond #Astoria #Clatsop #Marine #Aviation #Whaling #Fishing #CultureClash #Moonshot #WhaleOil #CunningPlan #MinkFarm |
| 2011.08.07 | Shipwreck ends Astoria's bid to be “Nantucket of the West Coast” | COAST Clatsop |
1850s | #Shipwreck #Rescue #ChangedHistory #Marine #Astoria #ColumbiaRiverBar #Whaling #Fishing |
| 2011.07.31 | In marshal's saloon, drinks were on prohibitionist Gov. Oswald West | OUTBACK Harney |
1910s | #Harney #CampaignSpeech |
| 2011.07.24 | Life of Sacagawea's mountain-man son “Pomp” a tantalizing mystery | OUTBACK Malheur |
1860s | #JeanBaptisteCharbonneau #LewisAndClark #Baby |
| 2011.07.17 | Mariner's dream predicted shipmates' deaths with eerie precision | COAST Tillamook |
1910s | #Offshore #Tillamook #Shipwreck #Fatal #BadIdea #CunningPlan #Marine #UnintendedConsequences #Hubris #Salvage #Fail #Superstition #Sailors |
| 2011.07.10 | Little-known hero of Silver Lake fire died saving dozens of lives | OUTBACK Lake |
1890s | #LucindaSchroder #ChristmasEve1894 #ChrismanStoreFire |
| 2011.07.03 | Wreck of the Glenesslin: Insurance fraud, or just drunken incompetence? | COAST Tillamook |
1910s | #Windjammer #NeahkahnieMountain #Shipwreck |
| 2011.06.26 | Gold-field bandits' stolen loot still hasn't been found | SOUTHERN Josephine |
1850s | #SailorsDiggins #TriskettGang #Legends #LostGold #Treasure #Outlaws #Shooting #Murder #Posse #LynchMob #Vigilante |
| 2011.06.19 | Tired of watching mariners die, lighthouse keeper started a rescue service | COAST Clatsop |
1860s, 1870s | #JoelMunson #LighthouseKeeper #RescueService #ColumbiaRiverBar |
| 2011.06.12 | Legendary Oregon wrestler pinned by heavyweight real-estate dream | COAST Lincoln |
1930s, 1940s | #RobinReed #DelakeRodAndGunClub #Ruins |
| 2011.06.05 | Story of "nudist church" in Corvallis ended in murder, suicide, insanity (Part 2 of 2) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lincoln &al. |
1900s | #BentonCounty #FritzCreffield #Jailbird #HolyRollers |
| 2011.05.29 | The real story of the "nudist church" in Corvallis: How it began (Part 1 of 2) | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton &al. |
1900s | #LincolnCounty #EdmundCreffield #HolyRollers #BrideOfChrist |
| 2011.05.22 | Blimps were first line of defense against Japanese subs, balloon bombs | COAST Tillamook |
1940s | #TillamookHangar #Airships |
| 2011.05.15 | Crew of shipwrecked schooner rescued — by a railroad train | COAST Clatsop |
1910s | #ColumbiaRiverBar #SouthJetty #ConstructionEngine #Admiral |
| 2011.05.08 | “Hermit of the Craggies” went from acorns and roots to prison food | SOUTHERN Josephine &al. |
1930s | #CurryCounty #CrazyHugoMayer #Trapper #RobertFantz #Murder |
| 2011.05.01 | Coast Guard rescue saved ship — for Stalin's most notorious gulag | COAST Clatsop |
1930s | #DieselFreighter #Childar #ColumbiaRiverBar #Shipwreck #Rescue |
| 2011.04.25 | Gallon House covered bridge: Ground Zero in Oregon's battle over booze | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1910s, 1920s | #Silverton #MtAngel #CoveredBridge #Bootlegger #Liquor #Progressive #Prohibition #Temperance #Catholic #Irony #Legal |
| 2011.04.17 | Amateur pirates' bumbling scheme didn't work out as they'd planned | COAST | 1910s | #Offshore #Murder #Piracy #DumbCrooks #Liquor #Marine #Fail #UnintendedConsequences #Steamship #Gold |
| 2011.04.10 | Only sitting U.S. Senator killed in battle was from Oregon … sort of | STATEWIDE | 1860s | #NedBaker #KIA #BattleOfBallsBluff #Colonel |
| 2011.04.03 | Bungling burglars skunked in Corvallis courthouse job | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton |
1900s | #CountyTreasurer #NoTreasure #Dynamite #Pawnshops |
| 2011.03.27 | Oregon had the first female governor in U.S. history — for one weekend | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1900s | #CarrieBShelton #GeorgeChamberlain |
| 2011.03.27 | Eugene woman was first female VP candidate to get Electoral College vote | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1970s | #ToniNathan #LibertarianParty |
| 2011.03.20 | Harney County rancher saves pioneer Oregon aviator's life | OUTBACK Malheur |
1930s | #TedBarber #BendFlyingService #CaughtOutAfterDusk #Waco9 |
| 2011.03.13 | Did Buddhist monk from China “discover” Oregon 1,600 years ago? | COAST | 490s A.D. | #Fusang #Legend #ChineseJunk #Utopia |
| 2011.03.06 | Chinese gold smuggler saved woman and her baby, then vanished | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1860s, 1870s | #Cheng #ChineseCourier #BrokenWagon |
| 2011.02.27 | Tiny home-built schooner “Morning Star” saved Tillamook settlers | COAST Tillamook |
1850s | #First #BadTiming #Marine #ColumbiaRiverBar #MorningStar #DIY #CheeseFactory #Indians #Trading #SailingShip |
| 2011.02.20 | When dynamite truck blew up in Roseburg, it looked like nuclear war | SOUTHERN Douglas |
1950s | #Explosion #Fatal #Dynamite #Heroes #BadTiming #Bravery #Famous #UnintendedConsequences #Fail #FireDepartment #Roseburg |
| 2011.02.13 | Shipwrecked fur traders walked from Oregon Coast to Louisiana | COAST Coos |
1800s | #SeaOtter #Shipwrecked #Marooned #UmpquaRiver |
| 2011.02.06 | Little remains of back-woods luxury spa at Wilhoit Springs county park | CASCADE RANGE Clackamas |
1880s, 1890s, 1910s, 1920s | #HydropathyResort #MineralWater #Molalla |
| 2011.01.30 | Japanese submarine I-25 blasted its way into Oregon history — twice. | COAST Curry &al. |
1940s | #ClatsopCounty #MeijiTagami #DeckGun #Seaplane |
| 2011.01.23 | Vanport houses floated like life rafts, helped many survive the flood. | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1940s | #RailroadEmbankment #ShipyardHousing #PSU |
| 2011.01.16 | Oregon back country is rich in legends of buried treasure and robbers' loot. | STATEWIDE | 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s | #StagecoachRobbery #MissingLoot #LostGold #Stories |
| 2011.01.09 | Little boy somehow knew mom and aunt were drowning on shipwreck. | COAST Curry |
1860s | #BrotherJonathan #Steamship #Sinking #Spooky |
| 2011.01.02 | Bobbie the Wonder Dog’s 2,500-mile odyssey put Silverton on the map. | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1920s | #RoadTrip #ScotchCollie #IllinoisToOregon |
| 2010.12.27 | * Caught rescuing shipwrecked sailors, rumrunners sent to prison anyway. | *deprecated* | 1920s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2010.12.20 | Depoe Bay, the world's smallest harbor, used to be even smaller. | COAST Lincoln |
1920s | #SpoutingHorn #Stormwatch #ShowBiz #Marine #NationallyFamous #WorldRecord #Tourism |
| 2010.12.13 | America's first “rest area” had marble walls, crowns oldest scenic highway. | COLUMBIA RIVER Multnomah |
1910s | #Columbia #Highway #Progressive #Artist #Promoter #RoadTrip #Scenic #GoodRoads |
| 2010.12.05 | * Temperance crusaders showed saloon keeper a real “bar fight.” | *deprecated* | 1870s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2010.11.28 | Did this tiny, soggy, scary road save Oregon's public beaches? | COAST Clatsop |
1900s | #HugPointRoad #HighwayOnTheBeach #OswaldWest |
| 2010.11.21 | Town of Bandon destroyed by its founder's favorite garden shrub. | COAST Coos |
1930s | #Bandon #Gorse #Invasive #Irony #Fail #SilverLining #UnintendedConsequence #Wildfire #Fujita #Bombing |
| 2010.11.14 | Last geyser in Pacific Northwest has gone still in Lakeview. (Update: It's back!) | OUTBACK Lake |
1920s | #HuntersHotSprings #OldPerpetual #Lakeview |
| 2010.11.07 | Portland Trail Blazers' fate hung on extra-long bathroom break. | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1970s | #HarryGlickman #NBA #BasketballTeam #Financing |
| 2010.10.31 | Mountain ghost town home of Oregon’s greatest mining swindle. | OUTBACK Baker |
1900s | #Bourne #SaltedGoldMines #CrackerCreek #Suckers |
| 2010.10.24 | Family camped unnoticed in downtown Portland for years. | PDX METRO Multnomah |
2000s | #ForestPark #FailedDevelopment |
| 2010.10.17 | Fossil Lake: Oregon's answer to the LaBrea Tar Pits. | OUTBACK Lake |
1870s to present | #ChristmasValley #AncientHistory #Scenic #Prehistoric #BoneWars #Marsh #Cope #Condon |
| 2010.10.10 | Oregon City is home of America's steepest street —it runs straight up. | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1910s to present | #ElevatorStreet #MunicipalElevator #SingerHill |
| 2010.10.03 | Marcus Whitman wanted to "save" Oregon, but not from the British. | COLUMBIA RIVER Umatilla |
1840s | #MissionaryWork #WhitmanMassacre |
| 2010.09.27 | Why legendary Old West lawman Virgil Earp is buried in Oregon. | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1900s | #RiverviewCemetery #NellieJaneBertrand #VirgilsDaughter |
| 2010.09.20 | Cattlemen-sheepmen wars had more than 10,000 wooly casualties. | OUTBACK Crook |
1890s, 1900s | #Prineville #OchocoMountains #BenjaminLake #SilverLake #GrantCounty #LakeCounty #Vigilante #Outlaw #LynchMob #Murder #Shooting #Cattlemen #Sheepmen #Basque #Cowboy #PublicLand #IzeeSheepshooters #CreedConn #LeslieCole #MelindaJette #MelanyTupper |
| 2010.09.13 | “Guns of August” blasted Nature Man's quest to prove he wasn't a fraud. | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1910s | #JoeKnowles #WildernessSurvivalGuru #Artist #NewspaperStunt |
| 2010.09.06 | Columbia was a wild, frothy, dangerous place once — especially Celilo Falls. | COLUMBIA RIVER Wasco &al. |
1950s | #HoodRiverCounty #CascadeLocks #CeliloVillage #TheDalles #Indian #Marine #LostCities #ColumbiaRiver #Salmon #Dipnets #BonnevilleDam #CeliloLake #Progress #RalphFriedman #BillGulick #VincePatton #CharlesWilkinson |
| 2010.08.29 | When bank closed, North Bend minted its own money — out of wood. | COAST Coos |
1930s | #MyrtlewoodMoney #SoCalledDollars #StillLegalTender #NorthBend #Depression #HerbertHoover #BankRun #FirstNationalBank #EdgarMcDaniel #IrvinRoss #DuncansMyrtlewoodCrofters #WoodenNickels #HarrietBaskas #WintonRoss |
| 2010.08.22 | The legendary Spanish gold of Neahkahnie Mountain, near Cannon Beach. | COAST Tillamook |
1690s | #MythsAndLegends #BuriedTreasure #SpanishGalleon #NehalemBay #Murder #PatSmith #OswaldWestStatePark #TillamookTreasure #ThomasMcKay #BillGulick #WilliamSullivan #Pirates #PiecesOfEight #Goonies #NativeAmericans |
| 2010.08.15 | West Coast's first woman MD lived in Oregon. | PDX METRO Multnomah &al. |
1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #DouglasCounty #BetheniaOwensAdair #Roseburg #EclecticMedicine #LegrandHill #Suffrage #Progressives #SpousalAbuse #Berkeley #Nursing #Warrenton #Eugenics #Sterilization #RalphFriedman #DorothyJohnson #JohnKitzhaber |
| 2010.08.08 | Without Astorians’ “failure,” Oregon would probably now be part of Canada, eh? | COAST Clatsop |
1910s | #Tonquin #Shipwreck #WarOf1812 #JointOccupancyTreaty #England #PacificFurCompany #JohnJacobAstor #FortClatsop #FortAstoria #OregonTerritory #JonathanThorn #54-40 #LewisAndClark #BakerBay #MarieDorion #SnakeRiver #BillGulick #RogerKaza |
| 2010.08.01 | Oregon state governor to President of the United States: "Drop dead." | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1890s | #SylvesterPennoyer #Curmudgeon #MYOB #TwoThanksgivings |
| 2010.07.26 | West's first floating bordello was in Portland's Willamette River. | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s | #MadamNancyBoggs #BrothelBarge #TaxEvasion #WhiskeyScow #Albina #Riverboat #ProstitutionSting #SteamHeating #Sternwheeler #StewartHolbrook #SpiderJohnson #EricksonsSaloon #CorriJimenez |
| 2010.07.19 | Wagon train to Oregon was led by a dead man. | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Marion |
1850s | #WillieKeil #PreservedInWhiskey #Bethel #WilhelmKeil #Missouri #OregonTrail #GoldenRuleWhiskey #Indians #Sioux #Menlo #StewartHolbrook #OldAuroraColony #HistoricalMuseum |
| 2010.07.12 | * Harry Tracy, the last desperado, was gunned down after bloody jailbreak. | *deprecated* | 1900s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2010.07.05 | "Flumgudgeon Gazette," Oregon's first newspaper, was written out longhand. | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1840s | #CharlesPickett #CurltailCoon #Journalism #OregonStyle #PhilosopherPickett #OregonSpectator #OregonTerritory #Muckrakers #Gadfly #FredericHuston #LawrencePowell #RichardHeinzkill #AndrewJewell #OregonCity |
| 2010.06.28 | Lewis and Clark left a trail of heavy-metal laxatives across the country. | COLUMBIA RIVER Clatsop &al. |
1800s | #BiliousPills #CorpsOfDiscovery #BenjaminRush #Humors #Medicine #FrontierDoctors #Galen #FortClatsop #Calomel #MercuryPoisoning #Thunderclappers #Constipation #DrJamesMohr #OregonTrail #Bile |
| 2010.06.21 | Portland was the "shanghai capital of the world" in the 1890s. | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1880s, 1890s, 1900s | #Portland #Columbia #Shanghaiing #Crimping #Swindlers #Theft #BadCops #ConArtist #PoliceChief #SamuelParrish #LarrySullivan #Folklore #Waterfront #SailorsBoardinghouse #BoardingMaster #Barque #GrainFleet #NorthEnd #Bowery #HumanTrafficking #Sailors #BuncoKelley #DickPintarich #NicholasStarin |
| 2010.06.14 | Lincoln City's D River is part-time holder of a world record — sort of. | COAST Lincoln |
1940s to present | #WorldsShortest #ButOnlyAtHighTide #JohnnyCarson #DevlisLake #DRiver #Delake #GreatFalls #RoeRiver #TonightShow #GuinnessBook #DavidGomberg #NikiPrice #HarrietBaskas |
| 2010.06.07 | * Pioneer preacher was more than Legislature bargained for | *deprecated* | 1850s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2010.05.30 | Rajneeshpuram: Did it almost become an Oregon Jonestown? (Part 4 of 4) | OUTBACK Wasco |
1980s | #BiologicalWarfare #PoisonLaboratories #Compound #Jonestown #Waco #RubyRidge #Immigration #PoisonersHandbook #Theft #Fugitive #Deported #PeacePatrol #HumanShield #AIDS #UrsBirnstiel #Switzerland |
| 2010.05.23 | Rajneeshpuram: The collapse of the Bhagwan's city (Part 3 of 4) | OUTBACK Wasco |
1980s | #SheelaSilverman #TheDalles #SaladBar #Terrorism #Poisoning #Fugitive #NormaPaulus #Madras #Homeless #ShareAHome #BallotStuffing #LandDispute #LandUse #KGON #KZOO #Z100 #DaveClark #ShutUpSheela #Dynamite #AIDS #RajneeshDangerfield #BiologicalWarfare #Osho |
| 2010.05.16 | Rajneeshpuram: Oregon's "red scare" featured Rolls-Royces (Part 2 of 4) | OUTBACK Wasco |
1980s | #Antelope #RollsRoyceGuru #BhagwanShreeRajneesh #MaAnandSheela #Silverman #Sannyasins #ArmedGuards #Guns #Homeless #VoterFraud #NuclearWar #SexGuru #India #Osho #Ashram #YouPeopleAreIgnorantBigots #BallotStuffing |
| 2010.05.09 | Rajneeshpuram, Oregon's most infamous ashram: The backstory (Part 1 of 4) | OUTBACK Wasco |
1970s, 1980s | #Antelope #Philosophers #Terrorism #Gandhi #PuneIndia #Taxes #Swindlers #Cults #Conspiracy #ConArtist #Politicians #SexGuru #ActiveMeditation #Charismatic #EncounterGroup #BhagwanShreeRajneesh #Osho #Ashram |
| 2010.05.02 | Oregon astronauts made history in good and not-so-good ways | STATEWIDE | 1960s to present | #JamesDutton #DonaldPettit #DavidGriggs #StanleyLove #WilliamOefelein |
| 2010.04.25 | Camp Adair, state's second-largest city, built in 6 months | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Benton |
1940s | #WW2 #USArmy #Wells #91stInfantry #70thInfantry #104thInfantry #96thInfantry #EEWilsonWildlifeRefuge #GhostTown #ArmyBase #TrainingCamp #AdairVillage #Salvage #Geocaching #SwampAdair #Lobbying #JohnBaker #Stilts #HenryKaiser |
| 2010.04.18 | Flash flood in Oregon in 1903 was nation's deadliest | OUTBACK Morrow |
1900s | #Heppner #Ione #WillowCreek #Hail #WallOfWater #BruceKelly #Lexington #Reservoir #Dam #FloodControl #Cemetery #TownDestroyed |
| 2010.04.11 | Boiler Bay named for fiery, spectacular 1910 shipwreck | COAST Lincoln |
1910s | #JMarhoffer #SteamSchooner #EngineRoomFire #Beached |
| 2010.04.04 | Wolf Creek Tavern was Jack London's writing retreat | SOUTHERN Josephine |
1880s to present | #SixBitHouse #ClarkGable #CowboysInTheAttic #WolfCreekInn |
| 2010.03.28 | * Is Oregon's crystal cave a legend? Well ... | *deprecated* | 1890s, 1900s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2010.03.21 | Old excursion steam train is now a new bike path | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1980s, 1990s | #RowRiverTrail #BlueGoose #OldSlowAndEasy #RailsToTrails |
| 2010.03.14 | Mohawk Valley debated school with dynamite | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1890s, 1900s | #PingYang #Marcola #LaneCounty #MohawkRiver #Dynamite #Explosion #Schoolhouse #Arson #MountainMan #Railroad #Race #Chinese |
| 2010.03.07 | Lure of sea brought potatoes to Oregon | COAST Clatsop |
1820s | #Portland #ColumbiaRiver #FortVancouver #Mariners #Astoria #Horticulture #SailingShips |
| 2010.02.28 | Oregon Vortex: 80 years of keeping 'em guessing | SOUTHERN Jackson |
1930s to present | #GoldHill #HouseOfMystery #RoadsideAttractions #WaterRunsUphill |
| 2010.02.21 | Dispute over reservation land lasted 101 years | OUTBACK Jefferson |
1870s, 1970s | #WarmSprings #JeffersonCounty #BadFaith #Theft #Politicians #Indian #Race #Legal #Fail #Underdog #SurpriseUpset #Native #LandClaims |
| 2010.02.14 | Bits of Hollywood train wreck still in Row River | WILLAMETTE VALLEY Lane |
1920s | #BusterKeaton #TheGeneral #SilentFilmEra #BurningBridge |
| 2010.02.07 | For pioneer family, robbers were lifesavers | CASCADE RANGE Lane |
1890s | #McKenziePass #HighwayRobbers #WagonRoad #SixChildren |
| 2010.01.31 | Underground city found in Pendleton potholes | OUTBACK Umatilla |
1880s, 1890s, 1980s | #PendletonUnderground #Chinese #SundownLaws |
| 2010.01.24 | Gold country legend: The solid-gold snuff can | CASCADE RANGE Lane |
1920s, 1930s | #McKenzieBridge #Indian #FordModelT #DeerhornRanch |
| 2010.01.17 | Biggest meteorite in U.S. found in West Linn | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1900s | #WillametteMeteorite #TheftAttempt #MissoulaFloods |
| 2010.01.10 | Bing Cherry has roots on Oregon Trail | PDX METRO Clackamas |
1850s | #HendersonLuelling #ApplesToOregon #Nurseryman |
| 2010.01.03 | Timberline Lodge could have been a skyscraper | CASCADE RANGE Clackamas |
1920s, 1930s | #GovernmentCamp #ClackamasCounty #CunningPlan #Promoters #Irony #Progressive #GoodRoads #WorldFamous #MazamaClub |
| 2009.12.27 | * Yaquina ghost story is pure fiction ... or is it? | *deprecated* | 1870s, 1890s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.12.21 | * Grande Ronde Valley: Eden, used-oxen dealership | *deprecated* | 1850s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.12.12 | * Lightship had to go cross-country to reach sea | *deprecated* | 1890s, 1900s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.12.06 | * Pixieland: Memories of an edgy amusement park | *deprecated* | 1960s, 1970s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.12.01 | * How Newport nearly became Oregon's major seaport city | *deprecated* | 1860s, 1870s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.11.15 | * BLM and Straub stopped plan for highway on beach | *deprecated* | 1960s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.11.08 | * Oregon had inside track on California gold rush | *deprecated* | 1840s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.11.05 | * Martial law declared in bawdy mining town | *deprecated* | 1910s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.10.29 | * Have you heard of Marie Dorion? | *deprecated* | 1810s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.10.21 | * Early naturalist thwarted by hungry, thirsty fellow travelers | *deprecated* | 1820s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.10.06 | * Nation's only wheelchair-accessible tidepools | *deprecated* | 1970s, 1980s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.10.01 | * Pioneer governor was made of tough stuff | *deprecated* | 1890s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.09.30 | * Corvallis' cattle-powered riverboat experiment | *deprecated* | 1850s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.09.23 | * Ice skating on Cottage Grove Lake? | *deprecated* | 1940s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.09.19 | * Bonus Army of 1932 started in Portland | *deprecated* | 1930s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.09.16 | * When Portland floods, folks raise the sidewalks | *deprecated* | 1890s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.09.06 | * Mount Hood celebrated statehood with fireworks | *deprecated* | 1850s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.09.03 | * AWS spotted few enemies, but saved many friends | *deprecated* | 1940s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.08.24 | Graveyard of Oregon Trail still said to be haunted | CASCADE RANGE Clackamas |
1840s, 1850s | #LaurelHill #RhododendronVillage #SamBarlow #BarlowTrail #OregonTrail #MountHood #Emigrants #CoveredWagons #LoggingCamp #GhostStories #PioneerGraves |
| 2009.08.23 | * Ghost stories still haunt century-old tavern | *deprecated* | 1900s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.08.17 | Portland man woke up during his wake | PDX METRO Multnomah |
1890s | #Portland #FederalWritersProject #LibraryOfCongress #MaddestMan #Donovan #CorpseAwakens #StormyNight #CharlieImus #Undertaker #OregonFolkloreStudies #CatholicMass #Priest |
| 2009.08.02 | * Hank Vaughn's most profitable “gunfight” | *deprecated* | 1880s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.07.27 | * Man paddled over Silver Falls and survived. | *deprecated* | 1920s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.07.22 | * Lighthouse built 3 weeks too late for 16 sailors | *deprecated* | 1880s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.07.10 | Unexploded WWII bomb rides in glovebox | COAST RANGE Curry County |
1940s | #BombsOverBrookings #BillMcCash #NobuoFujita #Seaplane #HankArends #LouisAmort #LoggingCrummy #UnexplodedTNT #CapeBlanco #MountEmily #Submarine #ImperialJapan #WW2 |
| 2009.07.08 | * Ashland Shakespeare plays beat out boxing event | *deprecated* | 1930s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.06.08 | * Did Sir Frances Drake summer in Whale Cove? | *deprecated* | 1540s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.05.31 | * Mule-powered railroad a desperate gambit | *deprecated* | 1880s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.05.24 | The swine flu: Is it deja vu? | STATEWIDE | 1910s | #FluPandemic #WW1 #H1N1 #Covid19 #Influenza #SpanishFlu #1918 #DickPintarich |
| 2009.05.21 | * Oregon helped Hoover prevent mass starvation | *deprecated* | 1910s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.05.10 | Oregon freeways were the envy of the west | STATEWIDE | 1920s | #GlennJackson #OregonHighwayDept #BanfieldFreeway #MotoristsParadise #BillBowerman #UO #TrackTeam #Interstate5 #HassoHering #AlbanyDemocratHerald |
| 2009.05.05 | Granite: An old mining town that's almost a ghost | OUTBACK Baker |
1860s, 1870s | #OteFord #JackLong #MrsNeilNiven #SouthernDemocrats #AbrahamLincoln #Mining #Chinese #WarLaborAct #Greenhorn #WilliamHaight #NormanWeis #SteveSmith |
| 2009.05.03 | * The president from Oregon who fed millions | *deprecated* | 1910s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.05.03 | Snubbed by railroad, Prineville built its own | OUTBACK Crook |
1910s | #LesSchwab #CrookedRiver #Prineville&Eastern #Trucking #PrinevilleCityRailroad #BillGulick #RandallMills |
| 2009.05.02 | * Liberty ships: Building 'em faster than Hitler could sink 'em, in Oregon | *deprecated* | 1940s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.04.26 | * Farmer from Oregon started California's gold rush | *deprecated* | 1840s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.04.19 | * No one has ever found legendary lost gold mine | *deprecated* | 1840s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.04.12 | * This was the lake that wasn't, but then was | *deprecated* | 1850a | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.04.06 | * 13 was unlucky number in Oregon train robbery | *deprecated* | 1920s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.03.22 | * Oregon Electric railroad line: State's past -- and future? | *deprecated* | 1900s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.03.22 | * Love Crater Lake? Thank an Albany newspaperman | *deprecated* | 1880s, 1890s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.03.18 | * Coming soon to a beach near you: 350-year-old beeswax | *deprecated* | 1690s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.03.07 | * Valsetz: Company town was soggy, but home | *deprecated* | 1930s, 1940s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.02.25 | * The Oregon town that fell into the sea | *deprecated* | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.02.19 | * A pioneer scientist's graffiti in a cave | *deprecated* | 1880s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.02.11 | Oregon's Centennial: The $19 million party | STATEWIDE | 1950s | #ValentinesDay #Sesquicentennial #IkeEisenhower #GrandCentennialBall #CentennialCommission #Tokens #SoCalledDollars #NorthwestSpecialty #HaroldHibler |
| 2009.02.05 | * John Day's pioneer Chinese herbalist | *deprecated* | 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2009.02.01 | * Oregon art students got "punk'd" by Andy Warhol & Co. | *deprecated* | 1960s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2008.12.28 | * Jacksonville: Where gold was as cheap as salt | *deprecated* | 1850s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2008.12.07 | * The scandalous secret of One-Eyed Charley | *deprecated* | 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2008.11.23 | * 14,000-year-old fossilized people poop | *deprecated* | 1930s, 2000s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2008.11.16 | * Fish wheels back in service -- to save fish? | *deprecated* | 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2008.11.09 | * Did Bonneville Dam win World War II? | *deprecated* | 1930s, 1940s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2008.10.26 | * Did Japan's wartime balloon bombs start the 1945 Tillamook Burn? | *deprecated* | 1940s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
| 2008.10.19 | * Florence's famous exploding whale | *deprecated* | 1970s | * STORY DEPRECATED in favor of later updated version |
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