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Famous ‘Doolittle Raid’ roots in Pendleton air base (1 of 3)
Oregon played a vital role in America's answer to Pearl Harbor — the daring daylight airstrike on Tokyo and other Japanese cities that provided a muc…
2 months ago
Mona Bell was like Annie Oakley with an edge
Although she's most remembered for being the mistress of a famous man, journalist and rodeo performer Mona Bell Hill was, on her own, one of the most…
2 months, 1 week ago
Columbia River was a wild, frothy, dangerous place once
The Columbia, the Great river of West, was known for spectacular scenery and phenomenal fishing; Oregon has traded that for a placid, lake-like water…
2 months, 1 week ago
Storm-tossed ships shared a double date with destiny
The Mindora and the Merrithew had docked next to each other in San Francisco, arrived within a few days of each other, wrecked within a few hours of …
2 months, 1 week ago
“Roaring 20s” murder solved by cop’s diligence
Caught by a railroad “bull,” the thief shot his way out and ran for it. But an accurate shot by the dying guard and some persistent police work broug…
2 months, 1 week ago
Oregon’s highest, smallest city once had its jail stolen
Because of how it's chartered, the ghost town of Greenhorn remained an incorporated city even when its population was zero — but it couldn't defend i…
2 months, 1 week ago
Miracle saved sailors from death on Columbia bar
As they hung in the riggings of the sailing ship Etoile du Matin waiting for death, they felt their ship start to break apart — but the piece that br…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Historic lighthouse saved by a nonexistent ghost ... but was she, really?
But did Lischen M. Miller create the story of Muriel Trevenard, the mysterious young woman who came to Newport in the 1870s and vanished ... or did s…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Heppner's devastation brought out heroism in face of watery death (2 of 2)
WHEN IT WAS over, the survivors in Heppner had an awful job ahead of them. A quote from the Portland Oregonian, reprinted in DenOuden’s article in th…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Worst natural flash flood in U.S. history struck here (Part 1 of 2)
ON JUNE 15, 1903, a strange little article appeared in the Portland Morning Oregonian. “It is reported that a tremendous cloudburst occurred at Heppn…
2 months, 3 weeks ago