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Wolf Creek Tavern was a refuge for Hollywood stars
THERE WERE TIMES, during Hollywood’s golden age, when Clark Gable simply couldn’t be found anywhere. Studio executives would search frantically for t…
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How Marie Dorion earned title ‘Oregon’s Revenant’ (Part 3 of 3)
Marooned in a frozen winter wasteland after a hostile tribe attacked and killed everyone else, she kept herself and her two children alive through th…
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Astorian party’s decision to follow river proved fatal (Part 2 of 3)
Charged with blazing a trail to the West Coast, the voyageurs in the party decided to paddle down a strange river, hoping for an easy ride to the sea…
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Marie Aioe Dorion was a wilderness-survival ninja (Part 1 of 3)
As the Native American bride of a French-Canadian interpreter, she joined the Astorian Party on its overland voyage to Oregon to set up a trading pos…
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Legendary Civil War ship met a sad end in Coos Bay
During its glory days, the Gertrude was the fastest blockade runner in the Confederate fleet. But just 17 years later, it was just another dumpy old …
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Dispute over 'McQuinn Strip' lasted more than a century (Part 2 of 2)
The dispute over the McQuinn Strip was no simple neighborhood kerfuffle. The amount of land in dispute was roughly 80,000 acres — close to 10 percent…
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Dispute over Indians’ land lasted for 101 years (Part 1 of 2)
IF THERE IS an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest active land dispute, it has to belong to the Confederated Tribes of Warm S…
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Bungling ex-crimps book-ended shanghaiing era
Bunco Kelley was out of prison, Mysterious Billy Smith was at loose ends, and Jumbo Riley was looking for something to do ... somehow, they ended up …
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Plan to stop shanghaiing: Give Sullivan a monopoly
Oregon's Sailors' Boardinghouse Commission seemed completely uninterested in any enforcement activity other than ordering Larry Sullivan's competitor…
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World boxing champ by day, shanghaier by night
After Jim Turk's death, former pro prizefighter Larry Sullivan virtually owned the shanghaiing business in Portland ... but there was one competitor …
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