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D.B. Cooper skyjacking legend started at PDX
History's only unsolved hijacking drama started at Portland International Airport when a nondescript man calling himself 'Dan Cooper' stepped aboard a Boeing 727 bound for Seattle. (Part 1 of a 4-par…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: Hathaway Jones, Self-declared 'damnedest liar' in Oregon country
A recording of an on-air conversation with Bill Lundun and Gerry Snyder of the Wake Up Call on Eugene's KPNW Radio AM 1120. Topic: The wonderful tall tales of Hathaway Jones, the legendary Rogue Rive…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
For one Oregon slave, the Civil War didn’t end bondage
Ame died in 1874, more than 10 years after President Abraham Lincoln set her free. So, why does her gravestone still identify her as a slave? We'll probably never know. (Corvallis, Benton County; 187…
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Oregon cold snaps seem mild, but one sank a ship
When the mercury dropped below 20 degrees for six weeks, a six-inch layer of ice formed on many Willamette Valley lakes — and locals took up ice skating. And five years earlier, it got so cold, a new…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Former robber became vice president of bank he once robbed
Young cowboy David Tucker wanted a share of the loot so he could marry his sweetheart; after he got out of prison, he worked for decades to earn back the trust of both her and their community. (Josep…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Ka-Ton-Ka patent remedy was Oregon’s own, sort of
In the mid-1870s, a fast-talking East Coast hustler teamed up with a famous half-Native Indian scout to cash in on his fame with a line of dodgy faux-Indian patent remedies — and the Oregon Indian Me…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Dry town’s sting on secret drugstore pub went badly
Forest Grove drugstore responded to city's ban on recreational alcohol by adopting the 'marijuana dispensary' model for medicinal booze, and opening a blind pig in the back. The city fathers were not…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Oregon’s second largest city built in six months
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 Service and Training Act had passed the previous fa…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Mt. Hood: so mellow, you forget it’s a real volcano
Back when the Mazama Club formed, with membership open only to those who had climbed old Wy’East, standing on top of the mountain meant more than it does today. Just 35 years earlier, fire had been b…
Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Did Oregon miss a chance to catch the Zodiac Killer?
At the scene of a notorious double-murder of young lovers Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan, police paid little attention to Edward W. Edwards and soon eliminated him as a suspect. But if they'd dug a l…
Published on 4 weeks ago