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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 p…
9 months 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 skat…
9 months 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…
9 months 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…
9 months 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 …
9 months 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 S…
9 months, 1 week 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 …
9 months, 1 week 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 …
9 months, 1 week ago
A town’s friendship with its wartime attacker
Twenty years after he tried to light the surrounding forests on fire, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita returned to Brookings as an honored guest and prese…
9 months, 1 week ago
Nobuo Fujita, the flying Samurai who attacked Oregon
After World War II started, submariner and pilot Nobuo Fujita hatched an idea: Use his tiny, rickety submarine-launched seaplane to attack an enemy 5…
9 months, 1 week ago