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For Oregon pioneer family, highway robbers were lifesavers
The armed men who apparently came to rob and kill the travelers helped pull them over the summit of McKenzie pass instead - after discovering there w…
4 months ago
‘Diamond Bill’ Barrett was a modern Mr. Wickham
'Diamond Bill' Barrett earned his nickname by sweet-talking a jewelry store into letting him borrow a $55,000 diamond, which he promptly hocked. Late…
4 months ago
Rescue station keeper’s cowardice got 11 killed
At the critical moment, the keeper of the rescue station at Cape Arago lost his nerve and deserted his waiting crew. Eleven shipwrecked sailors drown…
4 months ago
Oregon Vortex: 95 years of keeping experts guessing
ABOUT 20 YEARS ago, Alex Hirsch, a student at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, set out to make a low-budget short animated film…
4 months, 1 week ago
The crazy story of U.S.’s first woman governor (Part 2 of 2)
HALFWAY THROUGH HIS second term in office, Governor Chamberlain ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, and won the election. So he resigned his office as…
4 months, 1 week ago
The crazy story of U.S.’s first woman governor (Part 1 of 2)
IF YOU ASK most Oregonians who the first woman governor in state history was, they’ll have an immediate answer … but they’ll be wrong. Conventional w…
4 months, 1 week ago
Land-fraud swindlers plundered Oregon badly (Part 2 of 2)
Happily ensconced in their little bubble of like-minded businessmen and politicians, the land thieves had gotten to be a bit out of touch with how th…
4 months, 1 week ago
Land-fraud swindlers plundered Oregon badly (Part 1 of 2)
ON THE MORNING of Dec. 7, 1904, Stephen A.D. Puter had just arrived at the office of U.S. Marshal Jack Matthews. He was expecting some friends to com…
4 months, 1 week ago
'Most Wanted' desperadoes found a home and respect in Oregon(Part 2 of 2)
LATE IN THE MONTH of March, 1948, in the small coastal town of Gearhart, Pauline Virgin, 12, and her cousin Navarre Smith, 14, were listening to the …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Running from FBI? Hide in a friendly Oregon town!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! In the spirit of the American tradition of the season, today we’re going to explore the stories of two Missouri men whose New Year’s …
4 months, 2 weeks ago