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Bike business in P-town ruined by ... prostitutes?
“World's Greatest Trick Rider” sold more than 50,000 bicycles in an age when bikes were the cutting edge of transportation technology; Oregon women l…
1 week, 4 days ago
Schemers sought to steal Peter Iredale shipwreck
Clackamas County man claimed his father had bought the salvage rights in 1908, setting off a huge dust-up among residents, beachgoers and politicians…
1 week, 5 days ago
Uncle Dave's Incredible Shrinking Horse Story — and an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ...
A special weekend episode to announce a live history show on Friday, May 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Polk County Fairgrounds in Rickreall! It's a fun…
2 weeks ago
The legendary lies and tall tales of Reub Long (2 of 2)
LEGENDARY RACONTEUR REUB Long, the “Sage of Fort Rock,” packed a whole lot into his 76 years living in central Oregon. Most of it — though by no mean…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Rancher Reub Long, the legendary Sage of Fort Rock (1 of 2)
Oregon was once known as a place full of “great liars” — tellers of tales so tall they'd cause every pair of pants in the room to spontaneously burst…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
War-games campaign blanketed Central Oregon
Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers, shipped to the Beaver State for training (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1408d.oregon-maneu…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Camp Adair hardened recruits with combat training — and poison oak (Part 2 of 2)
Built in six months, the bustling metropolis of 40,000 lasted just six years before being turned, by order of the U.S. Government, into a ghost town …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Oregon's second-largest city was built in six months (Part 1 of 2)
BY EARLY 1941, the U.S. Army knew it was about to get sucked into at least one of the wars that were already raging around the world. The Selective S…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Before news “crusade,” milk was killing babies
State regulators didn't care, so neither did some dairy farmers, who left dead cows to rot among their dairy herds and brought milk to market in the …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Quest for lost gold mine led to 12,000-acre jewel
Searching for a fabulous source of gold formerly belonging to a friend who'd mysteriously disappeared, miners stumbled across Crater Lake. They never…
3 weeks, 2 days ago