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Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Offbeat Oregon History podcast

426 episodes

The Offbeat Oregon History Podcast is a daily service from the Offbeat Oregon History newspaper column. Each weekday morning, a strange-but-true story from Oregon's history from the archives of the column is uploaded. An exploding whale, a few shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. Source citations are included with the text version on the Web site at https://offbeatoregon.com.

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Truck bombings doomed newspaper unions cause

Published: Oct. 25, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds

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His cheating heart cost Oregon journalism dearly

Published: Oct. 24, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds

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The wreck of the U.S.S. Shark: Navys loss was Cannon Beachs gain

Published: Oct. 23, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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U.S.S. Shark doomed by skippers fear of desertion

Published: Oct. 22, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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The legendary Tabitha Brown of Forest Grove, founder of Pacific University (go Boxers) (Part 1 of 2; WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. H.A. Lewis)

Published: Oct. 21, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 51 seconds

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Victor Strode: Oregons own real-life Tom Swift

Published: Oct. 18, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds

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Oregon was only state with race-exclusion policy

Published: Oct. 17, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

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Blimp squadron was first line of defense against enemy subs, balloon bombs

Published: Oct. 16, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Oregons Atomic-age gold rush: Uranium mining

Published: Oct. 15, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 19 seconds

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1939, and the Livin' is Easy (WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. John James)

Published: Oct. 14, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds

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Shoestring railroad beat the mighty Southern Pacific in race to Coos Bay

Published: Oct. 11, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds

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Holy roller cult ended with murder, suicide, insanity

Published: Oct. 10, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 6 seconds

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The real story of the Corvallis naked ladies cult: How it began (part 1 of 2)

Published: Oct. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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Rookie robber turned out to be Joaquin Millers son

Published: Oct. 8, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 47 seconds

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Crossing the Oregon Trail and teaching in a pioneer schoolhouse (WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. J.R. Bean)

Published: Oct. 7, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 20 seconds

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Who needed enemies with friends like AC Edmunds?

Published: Oct. 4, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 39 seconds

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Prohibition-era Oregon was a bootleggers paradise

Published: Oct. 3, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 7 seconds

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Crew of shipwrecked schooner rescued by a railroad train

Published: Oct. 2, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 37 seconds

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Sudden storm caught big freighter ship at worst possible moment

Published: Oct. 1, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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Everyone had a motive to frame this innocent man (3 of 3)

Published: Sept. 27, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Top suspect became star witness in railroad job (2 of 3)

Published: Sept. 26, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Bloody train-car murder led to a real railroad job (Part 1 of 3)

Published: Sept. 25, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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Fatal crashes made 1933 a rough year for aviators

Published: Sept. 24, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds

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Ships sinking may have saved the lives of its crew

Published: Sept. 20, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 56 seconds

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Racketeers, corrupt union men battled over pinball

Published: Sept. 19, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds

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Prineville: The Oregon town that refused to die

Published: Sept. 18, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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Lessons from Christmas crash still save lives today

Published: Sept. 17, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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Life in a Wild West frontier mining town (WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. Neil Niven, chronicler of life in Granite, pt. 1 of 3)

Published: Sept. 16, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 32 seconds

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Hathaway Jones claimed to be worlds greatest liar

Published: Sept. 13, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 31 seconds

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Early Portland mans wake worked he woke right up

Published: Sept. 12, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds

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Oregon marked its first 100 years with a $2.6 million party

Published: Sept. 11, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

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States worst plane crash is also its most mysterious

Published: Sept. 10, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Abigail Scott Duniway's party on the Oregon Trail (WPA oral-history interview with Jean Slauson)

Published: Sept. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 9 seconds

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Heavens Gate UFO cult started at Waldport hotel

Published: Sept. 6, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds

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Oregon's contribution to space program nothing to sneeze at

Published: Sept. 5, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds

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The rowdy-but-golden past of almost-ghost-town Granite

Published: Sept. 4, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds

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Klamath Falls airport had unusual run of bad luck

Published: Sept. 3, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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The everyday life of a pioneer woman (WPA oral-history transcript)

Published: Sept. 2, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 47 seconds

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Albany woman should be in Swindlers Hall of Fame

Published: Aug. 30, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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When steamboats exploded on the upper Willamette

Published: Aug. 29, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds

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Hermit of the Craggies went from acorns and roots to prison food

Published: Aug. 28, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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Hawaii-bound airliner out of PDX ditched in open sea

Published: Aug. 27, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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Pioneer and Oregon Trail folkways of women (WPA oral-history interview with Miss Jean Slauson)

Published: Aug. 26, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds

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As demagogue's empire collapsed, he plotted a guerilla insurrection (Part 3 of 3)

Published: Aug. 23, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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Jackson County Rebellion: The plotters come to power in rigged election (Part 2 of 3)

Published: Aug. 22, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds

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Jackson County rebellion started as newspaper fight (Part 1 of 3)

Published: Aug. 21, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Murderer blew PDX-bound airliner up for moms insurance

Published: Aug. 20, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 48 seconds

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Life in the 'Fizzle No. 13' gold mine (WPA oral-history interview with Carl Hentz)

Published: Aug. 19, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds

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KGW Order of Hoot Owls changed U.S. radio history

Published: Aug. 16, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 10 seconds

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Oregons Harry Lane was a real hero of World War I

Published: Aug. 15, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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Coast Guards dramatic rescue saved ship for Stalins most notorious gulag

Published: Aug. 14, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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Neighbors gunfight left three dead, one hanged

Published: Aug. 13, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds

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Portland physician-druggist made history with telegraph 'hobby'(WPA oral-history interview with Ross Plummer)

Published: Aug. 12, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds

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Albany man ran Oregons first fake-Viagara scam

Published: Aug. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds

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McCarty Gangs story: Bonanza meets Unforgiven

Published: Aug. 8, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds

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Gallon House covered bridge: Ground Zero in battle over booze

Published: Aug. 7, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds

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Crater Lake car chase ended like a Clancy novel

Published: Aug. 6, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds

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Old-time square dance culture (WPA oral-history interview with George Gibby)

Published: Aug. 5, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes

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Frontier swindlers: The medicine hucksters

Published: Aug. 2, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

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Chemawa School: An Oregon cultural treasure

Published: Aug. 1, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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Amateur pirates bumbling plan didnt work out as theyd hoped

Published: July 31, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds

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Was Lewis ONeil a murderer, or did he just take the rap for one?

Published: July 30, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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How they avoided dying of dysentery on Oregon Trail

Published: July 26, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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Jim Turk: shanghaiier, drunkard, millionaire

Published: July 25, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds

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Only sitting U.S. Senator killed in battle was from Oregon ... sort of

Published: July 24, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 31 seconds

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States aggressiveness cost Yachats its beach access

Published: July 23, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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Early settlement in Milwaukie (WPA oral-history interview with Harvey Starkweather, Part 1 of 2)

Published: July 22, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 10 seconds

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Great Women of Oregon History, Pt. II: The firsts'

Published: July 19, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

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Abigail Scott Duniway isnt only great woman of Oregon history

Published: July 18, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds

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Bungling burglars skunked in Corvallis courthouse job

Published: July 17, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Brutal ax murder could not have been more sordid

Published: July 16, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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Memories of Meadowbrook, and the Molalla Indians (WPA oral-history interview with Ernest P. Elliott)

Published: July 15, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 40 seconds

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Laurel Hill was Oregon Trails final boss battle

Published: July 12, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds

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Larry Sullivans notorious P-town shanghaiing cartel

Published: July 11, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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Larry Sullivan: Boxer, con artist, shanghaier, baller

Published: July 10, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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Little-known resort a hit with stars, mobsters alike

Published: July 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds

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A Walking Tour of Miss Mertie's Basement Museum (WPA oral-history interview with Miss Mertie Stevens)

Published: July 8, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 59 seconds

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Riverboats on Willamette towed barns, fetched fish

Published: July 5, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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For teenage sailor, visit to Portland ended in a life sentence

Published: July 4, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds

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Roseburgs Champagne Riot was probably not what you think

Published: July 3, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds

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Tall talker from The Dalles was Oregon's own 'International Murderer o' Mystery'

Published: July 2, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds

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Ben Holladay, Abigail Scott Duniway were old friends of hers (WPA oral-history interview with Minerva Thessing)

Published: July 1, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds

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West Coast was the Detroit of fishboat engines

Published: June 28, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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How the Prineville Vigilantes were defeated without a shot

Published: June 27, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds

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Lynching kicked off scary vigilante era in Prineville

Published: June 26, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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To return to sea, ship had to sail through the woods

Published: June 25, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds

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The fortune-telling mind reader's story (WPA oral-history interview with 'Miss Smith')

Published: June 24, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes

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Storied editor lost feud with Oregons first woman doc

Published: June 21, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds

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Horrifying asylum poison mix-up left dozens dead

Published: June 20, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

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West Coasts first novel was a torrid page-turner

Published: June 19, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Oregons literary legacy built on true confession

Published: June 18, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds

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He's been workin' on the railroad, all the livelong day (WPA oral-history interview with Joseph Stangler, former railroad worker)

Published: June 17, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 11 seconds

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Governors kindness led to fatal consequences

Published: June 14, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 58 seconds

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Pioneer Courthouse square once the site of landmark hotel

Published: June 13, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Oregon governor nearly became President; lucky for us, he didnt

Published: June 12, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds

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Horse racing, and fixing races, were wildly popular

Published: June 11, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

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Life in 1880s Salem and Portland, a banker's-eye view (WPA oral-history interview with Cyrus Woodworth)

Published: June 10, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds

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Mans theft of widows home too much for jury

Published: June 7, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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Boozy generosity turned tables for Prineville Nine

Published: June 6, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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Timber baron made Coos Bay a shipbuilding capitol

Published: June 5, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds

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Kiwanda dory fleet launch straight into the surf

Published: June 4, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds

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Hard-rock mining in north Baker County (WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. Kitty Gray)

Published: June 3, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds

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How Abe Tichner hustled rubes at 1870s county fair

Published: May 31, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes

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John H. Mitchell, Oregons own Snidely Whiplash

Published: May 30, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 9 seconds

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Shouldnt Oregons official language be Chinook?

Published: May 29, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds

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Bad climbers kept getting stuck on Haystack Rock

Published: May 28, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes

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Rural life in the Willamette Valley in the 1870s (WPA oral-history interview with Nettie Spencer)

Published: May 27, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 7 seconds

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Mayors Lee, Schrunk set mid-century P-town tone

Published: May 24, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 45 seconds

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In 1880s Portland, at least one mayor paid to play

Published: May 23, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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Frontier Portland mayors could be drama queens

Published: May 22, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

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Lonely Oregon boy grew up to be a comics legend

Published: May 21, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 59 seconds

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Early songs and ballads, and memories of Homer Davenport (WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. Cora Ayers Jamerson)

Published: May 20, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 37 seconds

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Eugenes first college died after presidents gunfight

Published: May 17, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 17 seconds

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Harmonial Brotherhood free-love cult was a disaster

Published: May 16, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Oregon nursery industry founders Free Love cult

Published: May 15, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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Miner 29ers beat the Depression with gold pan

Published: May 14, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 6 seconds

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Life around Oswego Lake, and square dancing (WPA oral-history interview with C.T. Dickinson)

Published: May 13, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds

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Skill, stout shipbuilding kept wreck fatality-free

Published: May 10, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 1 second

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Guild Lake was P-towns water wonderland

Published: May 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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Wreck of the U.S. Grant: A weird historical mystery

Published: May 8, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 1 second

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Politicians plan for Army to seize gold mines foiled

Published: May 7, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 42 seconds

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What riding the transcontinental railroad was like (WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. Hortense Watkins)

Published: May 6, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds

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Oregons first murder defendant saved by wife

Published: May 3, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds

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Mysterious skeletons of Oregon history: If only these bones could talk ...

Published: May 2, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds

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Nutty 1890s governor gave state two Thanksgivings

Published: May 1, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Prospectors turned their backs on a fortune, twice

Published: April 30, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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HEADLINE (WPA oral-history interview with NAMENAMENAME)

Published: April 29, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds

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Laws in old Oregon were rough, not always ready

Published: April 26, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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Deadly weather usually catches Oregon by surprise

Published: April 25, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

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The short, tragic story of P-towns municipal whale

Published: April 24, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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Bootlegger lobster trap a huge but costly success

Published: April 23, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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The Portland mining engineer who invented fracking (WPA oral-history interview with William Hampton)

Published: April 22, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds

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Brothel owner Carrie Carries sidekicks proved bad at corpse disposal (Part 2 of 2)

Published: April 19, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds

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Bordello madam Carrie Bradley was a real-life Brigid OShaughnessy (Part 1 of 2 parts)

Published: April 18, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

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Scholarly Albany flyer was the real father of Oregon aviation

Published: April 17, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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Was Bridge of the Gods real? Almost certainly yes

Published: April 16, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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The maddest man in old Portland (WPA oral-history interview)

Published: April 15, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 47 seconds

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Cressman was Oregons real-life Indiana Jones

Published: April 12, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds

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A long-gone gold towns short but colorful past

Published: April 11, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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Ship owners offer of bonus led directly to shipwreck

Published: April 10, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds

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How an old banana peel changed Oregon history

Published: April 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

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Recollections of an 1880s Astoria salmon fisherman (WPA oral-history interview)

Published: April 8, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

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Battleship USS Oregon was lost in Pearl Harbor attack sort of

Published: April 5, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds

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P.R. wizard Gilbert Gable managed Jefferson secession like a movie (Part 2 of 2)

Published: April 4, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds

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Jefferson secession of 41 a brilliant publicity stunt (Part 1 of 2)

Published: April 3, 2024, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Surge of rebel refugees changed Oregon politics

Published: April 3, 2024, 3 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds

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Oregon City was home of first electric power grid

Published: April 3, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds

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Express clerks silence foiled Eugene train robber

Published: April 2, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds

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Recollections of an Oswego native from the days of the Oregon Iron Company (WPA oral-history interview)

Published: April 1, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds

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Murderer avoided gallows by faking a 2-year coma

Published: March 29, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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Vaudeville Susies Riot; or, Oregons Helen of Troy

Published: March 28, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Union squabbles were part of life on the waterfront

Published: March 27, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds

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Malheur County rancher saves pioneer Oregon aviators life

Published: March 26, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Decade-long dam dispute resolved with dynamite (Episode for Friday, March 22)

Published: March 15, 2024, 2:40 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 55 seconds

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Did monk from China discover Oregon 1,600 years ago? (Episode for Thursday, March 21)

Published: March 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 49 seconds

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Bridge-building scandal aroused Portlanders fury (Episode for Wed, March 20)

Published: March 15, 2024, 2:20 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Tiny home-built schooner saved Tillamook settlers (Episode for Tue, March 19)

Published: March 15, 2024, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds

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Recollections of an old Oregon railroad telegrapher and union lawyer, Part 1 of 2 (WPA oral-history interview; episode for Mon, March 18)

Published: March 15, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 3 seconds

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Was legendary city of Quivira on Oregon Coast? (Episode for Fri, March 15)

Published: March 11, 2024, 2:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Chinese smuggler saved woman and her baby, then vanished (episode for Thu, March 14)

Published: March 11, 2024, 2:40 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds

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Massive passenger liner won race with fiery death(episode for Wed, March 13)

Published: March 11, 2024, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 54 seconds

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Rabies epidemic was like a war in Eastern Oregon (episode for Tue, March 12)

Published: March 11, 2024, 2:20 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 24 seconds

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Announcement: All This Week Episodes at Once, and Why

Published: March 11, 2024, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 5 seconds

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Recollections of an old Oregon mining-law specialist (WPA oral-history interview)

Published: March 11, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 22 seconds

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Innocent mans sacrifice averted deadly tong war

Published: March 8, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 32 seconds

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Circuit Preacher Tales III: Longshoremans Funeral

Published: March 7, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds

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Circuit Preacher Stories 2: Shanghaiing up a flock

Published: March 6, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds

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Circuit Preacher Stories 1: The Rev. Wells wild ride

Published: March 5, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds

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Recollections of an old Oregon hard-rock miner (WPA oral-history interview)

Published: March 4, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 20 seconds

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Tillamook Guerillas were ready for enemy invasion

Published: March 1, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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When dynamite truck blew up, it looked like nuclear war

Published: Feb. 29, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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Home for Wayward Girls and Fallen Women a bust

Published: Feb. 28, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds

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Portland lad grew up to be a founding father of USSR

Published: Feb. 27, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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The Furrier's Story: Louis Schumacher, part 2 of 2 parts (WPA oral history interview)

Published: Feb. 26, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 7 seconds

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Massive DC-8 jumbo jet landed at tiny rural airport by mistake

Published: Feb. 23, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Shipwrecked fur traders walked from Oregon Coast to Louisiana

Published: Feb. 22, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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Czarina shipwreck: A deadly marine concert of timidity and incompetence

Published: Feb. 21, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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Camp Castaway was an inconvenient miracle

Published: Feb. 20, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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The Furrier's Story: Louis Schumacher, part 1 of 2 parts (WPA oral history interview)

Published: Feb. 19, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 39 seconds

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Six iconic food items that were invented in Oregon

Published: Feb. 16, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 20 seconds

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Little remains of back-woods luxury spa at Wilhoit Springs

Published: Feb. 15, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds

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Would Slate's all-metal steam-powered airship have worked?

Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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Alsea lad became The Nikola Tesla of Oregon

Published: Feb. 13, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds

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The life, times, and gold mines of Captain W.H. Hembree (WPA oral-history interview)

Published: Feb. 12, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 44 seconds

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Was Joe Drake a murderer, or just an innocent patsy?

Published: Feb. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Japanese submarine I-25 blasted its way into Oregon history twice

Published: Feb. 8, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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Oregons first execution still cloaked in mystery

Published: Feb. 7, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Schooner crew locked in a race with fiery death

Published: Feb. 6, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds

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The Last Diggin's: Recollections of an old Oregon miner (WPA oral-history interview)

Published: Feb. 5, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 32 seconds

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Davy Crockett in Oregon? Yes, but only in tall tales

Published: Feb. 2, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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Vanport houses floated like life rafts in catastrophic flood

Published: Feb. 1, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 7 seconds

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Mill owners fight with city sparked anti-Japanese riot

Published: Jan. 31, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds

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Skippers refusal to leave ship angered rescuers

Published: Jan. 30, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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Recollections of one of Portland's first telephone operators (WPA Federal Writers' Project oral history)

Published: Jan. 29, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 42 seconds

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Copter crash decimated Oregon journalism

Published: Jan. 26, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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Oregon back country is rich in legends of buried treasure

Published: Jan. 25, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds

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Radical Wobblies found support among loggers

Published: Jan. 24, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds

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Buying a B-17 for his gas station was a crazy adventure

Published: Jan. 23, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 43 seconds

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Autobiography of an Oregon Trail pioneer (Part 3 of 3)

Published: Jan. 22, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds

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Automo-bubble a part of Deschutes railroad war

Published: Jan. 19, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds

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Shipwreck of Brother Jonathan is ground zero in treasure squabble

Published: Jan. 18, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 1 second

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SPADs, Sopwith Camels made with Oregon spruce

Published: Jan. 17, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 6 seconds

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Fossil hunters' Bone Wars came to Oregon, but just barely

Published: Jan. 16, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds

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Autobiography of an Oregon Trail pioneer (Part 2 of 3)

Published: Jan. 15, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 30 seconds

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State government was decapitated by crash

Published: Jan. 12, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 30 seconds

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Wonder Dogs 2,500-mile odyssey put Silverton on the map

Published: Jan. 11, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 49 seconds

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Gun-toting Wildcat was nations first shock jock

Published: Jan. 10, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 6 seconds

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Portland jitney wars were monopoly vs. small-biz

Published: Jan. 9, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds

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Autobiography of an Oregon Trail pioneer (Part 1 of 3)

Published: Jan. 8, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 32 seconds

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Atlantis in Oregon: The underwater lost cities

Published: Jan. 5, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 31 seconds

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Japanese shipwrecks on coast predate Columbus

Published: Jan. 4, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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Mislabeled wood alcohol killed 28 Portland hobos

Published: Jan. 3, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Story of sinister video game is urban legend

Published: Jan. 2, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds

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Sara B. Wrenn interviews Bert Mendenhall about old Portland, and his father's experiences as an Oregon Trail pioneer

Published: Jan. 1, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 41 seconds

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Did Vortex I prevent riots in downtown Portland?

Published: Dec. 29, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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McCall expected Vortex I to cost him re-election

Published: Dec. 28, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds

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Riot at PSU set the stage for Governors Pot Party

Published: Dec. 27, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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NASAs Moon Trees have roots in Oregon forest fire

Published: Dec. 26, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 54 seconds

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Ardyth Kennely interviews Newt McDaniel about the ghost town of Ellendale (WPA oral history)

Published: Dec. 25, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 11 seconds

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Childhood tree-planting memories for thousands

Published: Dec. 22, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds

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Tillamook Burn blew up with shocking speed

Published: Dec. 21, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds

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Tillamook Burn sprang from loggers bad gamble

Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds

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War-games campaign blanketed Central Oregon

Published: Dec. 19, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 2 seconds

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Reminiscences of Mrs. E.W. Wilson

Published: Dec. 18, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 56 seconds

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Oregons tiger king became Idahos problem

Published: Dec. 15, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 27 seconds

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Rosecrans rescue one of Coast Guards finest hours

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 13 seconds

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Cursed or not, Rosecrans was one unlucky ship

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds

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Pioneer Chinese doc was a city treasure in John Day

Published: Dec. 12, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 19 seconds

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Cayuse tribes amazing ponies are now very rare

Published: Dec. 11, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds

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Weekend Update

Published: Dec. 9, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 43 seconds

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Grisly slasher murder still baffling a century later

Published: Dec. 8, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds

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Buck Rogers-style boat didnt work out for city

Published: Dec. 7, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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Rooftop stunt made local aero-daredevil famous

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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Beavercreek Bomber: One MILLION DOLLars, or out go the lights!

Published: Dec. 5, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds

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Pirates were defeated in Yaquina Bay Oyster Wars

Published: Dec. 4, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Legendary Civil War ship met a sad end in Coos Bay

Published: Dec. 1, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 42 seconds

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Portlands Pioneer Square pitched as crystal palace

Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Steamer wrecked by future admiral in the Costa Rican navy

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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Mass murderer honored in courthouse monument

Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds

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Legendary Chief Bigfoot was as elusive as, well, Bigfoot

Published: Nov. 27, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Oregon Indian prince was Japans intro to the West

Published: Nov. 24, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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An unrecognized Indian princes quest to see Japan

Published: Nov. 23, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds

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Pilot boats entire crew mysteriously disappeared

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds

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Roaring 20s murder solved by cops diligence

Published: Nov. 21, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Did L. Ron Hubbard battle Japanese subs off Astoria?

Published: Nov. 20, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 8 seconds

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Portland woman ran U.S. spy ring in World War II

Published: Nov. 17, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 15 seconds

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Fossil Lake: Oregons answer to the LaBrea Tar Pits

Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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Astronaut left a piece of Oregon lava on the moon

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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Ship of Romance and Death met a dramatic end

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 27 seconds

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In 1880s, salmon were the most dangerous catch

Published: Nov. 13, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds

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Bunco Kelley, Coyote of P-town waterfront legend

Published: Nov. 10, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Oregons most notorious shanghaier: Bunco Kelley

Published: Nov. 9, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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How Oregon almost lost public access to beaches

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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Giant skeleton hinted at legend of pirate treasure

Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds

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The mysterious demise of the S.S. South Coast

Published: Nov. 6, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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Writer Stewart Holbrook embodied the spirit of mid-century Oregon

Published: Nov. 3, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 20 seconds

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Fort Rocks Reub Longs tall tales were legendary

Published: Nov. 2, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds

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Pixieland, the essence of Oregon midcentury culture

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 28 seconds

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Tiny towns police chief was later executed for murder

Published: Oct. 31, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds

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How FBIs Most Wanted gangster was busted in Beaverton

Published: Oct. 30, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds

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Portland mansion was once home of starvation cult

Published: Oct. 27, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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Oregon mans wife killed his SCOTUS appointment

Published: Oct. 26, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds

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Grand Ronde Valley was Oregon Trails eden, used-oxen dealership

Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 51 seconds

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Bike business in Portland was ruined by ... prostitutes?

Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds

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Brutal Oregon Boot made our state prison infamous

Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 1 second

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Bob Straub stopped plan to put highway on the beach

Published: Oct. 20, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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Mountain town of Bourne was home of a magnificent swindle

Published: Oct. 19, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Unwritten Law no help for bro-in-laws murderer

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds

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Getting trapped in ships wreckage saved mariner's life

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds

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Rajneeshees Oregon dream ended in disgrace (Part 4 of 4)

Published: Oct. 16, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 35 seconds

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Rajneeshees doom sealed by scheme to seize power (Part 3 of 4)

Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 46 seconds

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Rajneeshees got on well with neighbors ... at first (Part 2 of 4)

Published: Oct. 14, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 16 seconds

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Rajneeshpuram: Oregons most (in)famous ashram (Part 1 of 4)

Published: Oct. 13, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes

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Schemers sought to steal Peter Iredale shipwreck

Published: Oct. 12, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

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Daredevil Al Fossett was Evel Knievel of the 20s

Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 57 seconds

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Town destroyed by its founders favorite garden shrub

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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After loggers murder, bordello madam vanished

Published: Oct. 9, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds

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Yachters treasure caught FBIs interest too late

Published: Oct. 6, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Vaudeville mayor made city famous, notorious

Published: Oct. 5, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 13 seconds

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The Oregonian newspaper burgled candidates home

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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Portland lost worlds biggest log cabin in 1964 fire

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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Oregons highest, smallest city once had its jail stolen

Published: Oct. 2, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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Wests first female lawyer: A legal Mother Teresa?

Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes

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Pioneering lady lawyer deserved a better legacy

Published: Sept. 28, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds

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Acquitted murder suspect became first lady lawyer

Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds

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Busting out of the joint was job for a safecracker

Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds

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Opium culture a forgotten part of urban underworld

Published: Sept. 25, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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The notorious Tusko led a colorful and tragic life

Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds

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Lotus Isle, Oregons most surreal amusement park

Published: Sept. 21, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 54 seconds

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For Oregon pioneer family, highway robbers were lifesavers

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds

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Quest for lost gold mine led to 12,000-acre jewel

Published: Sept. 19, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 7 seconds

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Mount Angel Abbey owes grandeur to colorful monk

Published: Sept. 18, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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Man found biggest meteorite in U.S. history ... on his neighbors land

Published: Sept. 15, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 45 seconds

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Rusty derelict turned out to be Liberty Ship lifeboat

Published: Sept. 14, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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Prison break happened during conjugal visit

Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds

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Charming gentleman by day, robber-poet by night: Charles 'Black Bart' Bolton

Published: Sept. 12, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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Famous dance hall hosted Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, many more

Published: Sept. 11, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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Oregon town hired world boxing champ to humiliate local bully

Published: Sept. 8, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 2 seconds

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Storm-tossed ships shared a double date with destiny

Published: Sept. 7, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds

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Desperado became Portlands first police chief

Published: Sept. 6, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds

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Frontier murder was even darker than it appeared

Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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Historic lighthouse saved by a nonexistent ghost

Published: Sept. 4, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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The heroic final flight of Cottage Groves Jim Wright

Published: Sept. 1, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 10 seconds

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Skunk’s “beautiful pelt” was best admired from afar

Published: March 18, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 39 seconds

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For country doctors, life was colorful and action-packed

Published: March 17, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds

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PST: 'It Might Have Been,' a shortstory by David Burr Chase, from the December 1898 issue of Pacific Monthly magazine

Published: March 16, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds

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Lighthouse was built 18 days too late to save sailing ship’s crew

Published: March 15, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 32 seconds

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On the lam from the FBI? Try hiding out in a small, friendly Oregon town!

Published: March 12, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 23 seconds

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The game of Faro was a crooked gambler's dream

Published: March 11, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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Oregon’s biggest mud puddles are once-and-future inland seas

Published: March 10, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 1 second

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PST: Early Oregon gold mining legends, with Capt. W.H. Hembree (WPA Writers Project)

Published: March 9, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds

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Ashland’s Shakespeare festival kayoed boxing event in Round 1

Published: March 8, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 39 seconds

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Taming of the Rascal: Edouard Chambreau’s redemption

Published: March 5, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds

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Edouard Chambreau gave a swindler’s-eye view of old Oregon

Published: March 4, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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Mayor’s wife gave him a real “election-day surprise”

Published: March 3, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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PST: Cats on the Logs, by Stewart Holbrook (from Collier's Weekly, January 1939)

Published: March 2, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 27 seconds

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Oregon gold-country legend: The solid-gold snuff can

Published: March 1, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 25 seconds

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Vigilantes went too far with murder of suspected rustler

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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“Blue Ruin” drove lawmakers to drink — and prohibition

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 4 seconds

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Palatial riverboat was caught in a hurricane on the open sea

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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PST: Over the Bar, by Lischen M. Miller (short story)

Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 28 seconds

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The “Bucket of Blood” saloon: A souvenir of the age of shanghaiing

Published: Feb. 22, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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“Prepaid shanghaiing” plot went off the rails — fatally

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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Letter from afar gave family a “view to a shanghaiing”

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds

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Lawyer schemed to steal man’s land via shanghaiing

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds

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PST: Early Oregon Folkways interview with Anne Abernethy Starr (WPA Writers Project)

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 42 seconds

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Did Sir Francis Drake actually visit Oregon in 1579?

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

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How Portland’s rabbi got in a gunfight at President Rutherford Hayes’ hotel room

Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds

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Pioneering Oregon historian earned recognition, little money

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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Legendary Oregon “authoress” started with poetry, dime novels

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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PST: Augustus Dana's Wife, by Lischen M. Miller (Short story, 1898)

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 56 seconds

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“Crusade” collapsed when leaders got too preachy

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds

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Riot at bar led to charges … but not against rioters

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

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Stubborn saloonkeeper refused to play nice

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 23 seconds

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Portland’s “Temperance War of ’74”: The backstory

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 56 seconds

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PST: Recollections of Bert Mendelhall, Pioneer Lawyer

Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds

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Underground city found in Pendleton potholes

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds

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Bungled robbery-murder solved with “CSI: Southern Oregon”

Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds

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Last “great” train robbery was a brutal, incompetent fiasco

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds

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Filming of “worst Western ever” was a real spectacle

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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PST: The Lost Ledge, by Laura Miller (Short story, 1898)

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 19 seconds

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Was suspicious death in “The Boneyard” really a murder?

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Plain-talking preacher made lawmakers squirm

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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“Uncle Joab” was West’s most famous preacher

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds

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Voice of Goofy was Oregon’s incomparable “Pinto” Colvig

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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PST: The Ghost Town of Ellendale, Oregon

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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California Gold Rush was sparked by a failed Oregon farmer

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 48 seconds

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Supreme Court: Anti-slavery laws don’t apply to sailors

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 33 seconds

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Former Oregonian saved entire nations from starving to death

Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Tiny, lonely Newberg orphan grew up to be President

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 41 seconds

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PST: Whistling Quail, a short story by Fred Lockley Jr.

Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds

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“Shorty” Davis may be Oregon’s oldest cold case

Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 1 second

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“Bear Grylls of the 1910s” had something to prove

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 13 seconds

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Pro-tip: Model T engines make lousy airplane motors

Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds

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Outlaw Bill Miner’s first train robbery was a fiasco

Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds

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PST: Reminiscences of an Old Violin Maker

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds

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Quest for “Blue Bucket Mine” led “suckers” to actual riches

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds

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Did Oregon miss a chance to catch the Zodiac Killer?

Published: Jan. 1, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds

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Columbia River was a wild, frothy, dangerous place once

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds

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The original floating bordello of 1880s Portland

Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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When the rebel flag flew over Oregon soil — for real

Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 24 seconds

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Why legendary Old West lawman Virgil Earp is buried in Oregon

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds

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How Oregon’s own “anti-grinch” saved Christmas

Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds

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Even as a boy, Erector Set’s inventor seemed larger than life

Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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Dry town’s sting on secret drugstore saloon went badly

Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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Wooden “D.I.Y. dollars” spend like the real thing in North Bend

Published: Dec. 22, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Sailors, miraculously saved from wreck, drifted 200 miles

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 1 second

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Ain't no party like a shanghaiing party: One sailor’s story

Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds

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Joseph bank robber became vice-president of the bank he once robbed

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds

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County wasted $3.1 mil on dueling-courthouses drama

Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds

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The legendary Spanish gold of Neahkahnie Mountain

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 49 seconds

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Lafe Pence’s crazy plan: Move mountains down, fill up lake

Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds

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Pirate, jailbird, hustler, tycoon: “Colonel” Hogg and his railroad

Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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Ill-starred gold-mining venture worked out well for Tarzan fans

Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds

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Dynamite killing resulted from a sordid love triangle

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds

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West Coast's first female M.D. lived in Oregon

Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 8 seconds

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How Oregon almost became part of Canada, eh?

Published: Dec. 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 48 seconds

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Civil War plotters hoped to get Oregon, West Coast to secede

Published: Dec. 4, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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A town's special friendship with its onetime would-be destroyer

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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The flying Samurai who attacked Oregon

Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds

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Bold bandits robbed express train three miles from Roseburg

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 27 seconds

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Cow Creek Canyon train robbers weren’t afraid to blow stuff up

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds

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Range-wars veteran made Oregon famous for its wool

Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds

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What really happened to D.B. Cooper? Pick a theory

Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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The hunt for D.B. Cooper: Searching for the drop zone

Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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The deplaning of D.B. Cooper: Getting away with the loot

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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The D.B. Cooper skyjacking legend took flight out of PDX

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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Ka-Ton-Ka was Oregon’s own patent remedy...sort of

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 28 seconds

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Corruption, hypocrisy and the fall of the house of Klux

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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The Rise of the House of Klux: How the KKK took over the state

Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Rise of Ku Klux Klan in Oregon: A racist moneymaking scheme

Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Oregon's first newspaper, the “Flumgudgeon Gazette,” was written out longhand

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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Boss shanghaier Sullivan’s mining-stock fraud career

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 28 seconds

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Is Central Oregon’s lost crystal cave just a legend?

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds

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Portland’s play to beat The Dalles literally cost a mint

Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Last “Wild West outlaw” gunned down after bloody jailbreak

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

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Stubborn citizen teamed up with McCall on Bottle Bill

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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Boys’ shipwreck adventure couldn’t happen today

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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Wagon train to Oregon was led by a dead man: Willie Keil

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds

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Oregon crooks have always enjoyed their dynamite

Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds

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How to rob trains with dynamite: Tips from the pros

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds

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Dynamite used to be a regular part of Oregon life

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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Oregon’s cattleman-sheepman war: 10,000 wooly casualties

Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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Massive 1934 Portland dock strike paralyzed the state

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds

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Dead Oregon doc’s identity stolen by serial swindler

Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Lincoln City's D River is part-time holder of a world record

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds

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Express clerk’s silence foiled train robber

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds

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Coast Guard “Sand Pounders” kept wartime Oregon secure

Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 8 seconds

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Linn County had a bloody holiday season in 1895

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Shanghaied in Astoria: Port city was once a perilous place

Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 16 seconds

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Portland was the “shanghai” capital of the world in 1890s

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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“Oregon system” showed the nation how to reform corruption

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 9 seconds

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Timberline Lodge could’ve been a gaudy skyscraper/ 'Sky bus' cable tram was an epic flop

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 29 seconds

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“Oregon’s Outback” was a real moonshiner’s paradise in ’20s

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds

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Oregon was last state where jury need not be unanimous

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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The life and death of a Portland gangster and his “moll”

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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How Portland and Henry Kaiser helped save England and Canada

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Rajneeshpuram: Did it almost turn into an Oregon Jonestown?

Published: Oct. 9, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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Rajneesh blend of spiritualism, grabs for power left a bad taste

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds

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Rajneeshpuram: Oregon's “red scare” featured dozens of Rolls-Royces

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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Rajneeshpuram, Oregon's most infamous ashram: The backstory

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 19 seconds

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First seaworthy log raft helped Oregon build city of San Diego

Published: Oct. 5, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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The rise and fall of the Oregon Electric Railroad

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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Incompetent opium smugglers had friend in high places

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds

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Bootleggers’ midnight jailbreak didn’t work out

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

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Bootleggers’ bad luck was “whiskey galore” for locals

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

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Prohibition liquor raid near Albany went horribly wrong

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds

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Postwar Portland turned away Nat “King” Cole, Billie Holiday

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds

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Watching bugs in a stump led to modern chainsaw (Part 2 of 2-part series)

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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First real portable chainsaw invented in Oregon

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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Lewis and Clark expedition left a trail of heavy-metal laxatives

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 23 seconds

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Once the West Coast’s soggiest town, Valsetz is now a memory

Published: Sept. 21, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Cruise-ship skipper wasn’t the first to “fall into a lifeboat”

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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Fog made the difference between a reprimand and a medal

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Activist stopped state plan to forcibly sterilize people

Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 25 seconds

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Camp Adair, Oregon’s second-largest city, built in six months

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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“Atlantic City of the West” was swallowed up by the sea

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds

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Newcomer’s stinginess with ‘his’ beach raised neighbors' suspicions ... and they were right

Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes

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Homesteader’s plan to get extra land involved bigamy, murder

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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Canadians rescued sailors; their reward was prison

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds

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America's deadliest natural flash flood happened in Heppner

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Gold Rush-era Jacksonville: Where the bank “robbed” you

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Forty-day debauch made Oregon legislature nationally notorious

Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds

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Oregon City was home of world’s first electric power grid

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds

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‘Temporary Insanity’ plea didn’t prevent murder rap for angry mother

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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Boiler Bay named for spectacular fiery 1910 shipwreck

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 8 seconds

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“Father of Oregon geology” left his mark on the state — literally

Published: Aug. 31, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 1 second

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Coast Guard catastrophe sprang from bad boat design

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds

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Coast Guard’s worst Columbia disaster started as routine rescue

Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds

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Teen girl ended brewing family feud with shotgun

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds

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Dory fisherman rescues stranded sailors — from Coast Guard boat

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 36 seconds

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The day Andy Warhol “punk’d” Oregon college students

Published: Aug. 24, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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Mailing out a box of panties got dynamite killer caught (Part 2 of 2)

Published: Aug. 21, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 21 seconds

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Dynamite-murderer dentist killed, mailed panties, fled (Part 1 of 2)

Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 23 seconds

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Researchers solve mystery of “Beeswax Shipwreck”

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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“Voice of Looney Toons” was the terror of his Portland high school

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds

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Gold Rush stagecoach driver One-Eyed Charley had a secret

Published: Aug. 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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Wolf Creek Inn was writing retreat for Jack London

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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Tangent City Hall office cat was the city’s landlord

Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 3 seconds

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Union squabbles were part of life on Portland waterfront

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds

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Oregon called BS on Cali papers’ 1890s UFO stories

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds

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Oregon has been someone’s home since at least 12,400 B.C.

Published: Aug. 10, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 31 seconds

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The great Christmas Valley land-sales hustle

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds

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Fierce debate over McMinnville UFO sighting continues today

Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Flying saucer stories got their start in Pendleton

Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 2 seconds

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Portland was the scene of Sammy Davis Jr.’s big break

Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds

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Missing gold suggests something sinister in shipwreck mystery

Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds

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Bootlegger’s liquor buy ended in bloody, dramatic murder

Published: July 31, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Massive passenger liner won race against fiery death

Published: July 30, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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Governor Martin’s goons were dirty but incompetent fighters

Published: July 29, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Governor Charles Martin tried to run Oregon like an Army base

Published: July 28, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds

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Oregon’s own would-be fascist dictator: Gov. Charles H. Martin

Published: July 27, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds

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Early anti-prostitution crusade was an embarrassing fizzle

Published: July 24, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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Bridge-building scandal aroused fury of 1920s Portland

Published: July 23, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds

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Abigail S. Duniway thought her novels were her legacy

Published: July 22, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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Black sheep of the Union Army was Oregon’s last Civil War vet

Published: July 21, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 24 seconds

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Collection of “history hoarder” is a priceless treasure today

Published: July 20, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 6 seconds

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The “nest of anarchists” at the White Eagle Saloon

Published: July 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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Rabies epidemic was like a war in Eastern Oregon

Published: July 16, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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U. of O.’s founding father was once its No.1 opponent

Published: July 15, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 56 seconds

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Oregon’s distinctive bridge style is Conde McCullough’s legacy

Published: July 14, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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Cockiness, incompetence and a labor strike led to shipwreck

Published: July 13, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 30 seconds

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Quest for cabin gold vault led to madness and death (Part 1)

Published: July 9, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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In 1960 primary, Oregon was JFK’s make-or-break state

Published: July 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds

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Steamboat monopoly’s clever coup was a big mistake

Published: July 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds

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The all-night municipal gunfight in the frontier town of Ione

Published: July 6, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 9 seconds

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Outlaw Berry Way got a fake trial, a real execution

Published: July 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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A deadly maritime concert of timidity and incompetence

Published: July 1, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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They laughed at Captain Scott’s ugly little riverboat ... until he ate their lunch with it.

Published: June 30, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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Monmouth’s 150-year tradition of Prohibition in Oregon

Published: June 29, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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Captain’s quick decision saved hundreds from a fiery death

Published: June 26, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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Oregon’s first public execution still cloaked in dark mystery

Published: June 25, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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“Traitorous” librarian’s crime: Not buying bonds

Published: June 24, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 21 seconds

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For one Oregon slave, the Civil War didn’t end bondage

Published: June 23, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds

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Deadwood Dick’s Oregon adventures: Dime-novel fun

Published: June 22, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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Charity Lamb was Oregon’s most misunderstood ax-murderess

Published: June 19, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds

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A frontier Romeo and Juliet story — with a dark twist

Published: June 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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Rascally sea-captain was like a 19th-century Han Solo

Published: June 16, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 47 seconds

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Aurora Colony showcased the best of Utopian movement

Published: June 15, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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In Great War, Allies flew planes made of Oregon spruce

Published: June 12, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds

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Radical Wobblies found support among Oregon loggers

Published: June 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

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Keeping Tillamook Rock Light running was hard, and expensive

Published: June 10, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds

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Builders were hard to find for Tillamook Rock Lighthouse job

Published: June 9, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Tillamook Lighthouse “ghost” greeted new keeper on first night

Published: June 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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Colonel Hogg’s war record was just high-seas highway robbery

Published: June 5, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 2 seconds

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Gun-toting “Oregon Wildcat” was America’s first “shock jock”

Published: June 4, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds

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Schooner sailed 120 miles in a gale, full of water

Published: June 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Astoria man set out to do something nice for his wife, ended up inventing cable TV

Published: June 2, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Corvallis veterans were heroes of two different Civil Wars

Published: June 1, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds

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“Unwritten Law” didn’t cover murder of in-laws

Published: May 29, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds

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The mysterious skeletons of Crater Lake National Park

Published: May 28, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds

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Murderers picked wrong landlady to steal from

Published: May 27, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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Getting shipwrecked was luckiest break of his life

Published: May 26, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds

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Murderer surprised when Unwritten Law doesn’t “work”

Published: May 25, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds

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When the “Dark Strangler” stalked the streets of Portland

Published: May 22, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds

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Oregon embraced Carnegie Libraries like no other state

Published: May 21, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds

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Was Ray Jackson really Central Oregon’s own “Angel of Death”?

Published: May 20, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 53 seconds

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Schoolteacher Ray Jackson may have been a serial killer

Published: May 19, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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Unwritten Law cases weren't always a total moral failure

Published: May 18, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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Famous prospector’s death sparked 2 “lost gold” tales

Published: May 15, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds

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1890s “march on Washington” involved train hijackings

Published: May 14, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds

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Mayor Baker’s theater defined Portland culture

Published: May 13, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Clean-cut murder case turned out to be sordid and complex

Published: May 12, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 30 seconds

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Murder of policeman helped turn Portland against Unwritten Law

Published: May 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 32 seconds

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Daring rescue saved 49, made skipper toast of the West Coast

Published: May 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds

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Valsetz newspaper and its editor, age 9, won nationwide fame

Published: May 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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Anarcho-communist editors jailed for writing about sex

Published: May 6, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds

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Vaudeville’s famous “Klondike Kate” became an Oregon legend

Published: May 5, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Private manhunt ended with cold-blooded, jury-approved murder

Published: May 4, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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Train robbery turned into on-board gunfight with the law

Published: May 1, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 43 seconds

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Shevlin: Oregon’s wandering timber town

Published: April 30, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds

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Murdered man turned out to have been a creepy stalker

Published: April 29, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 6 seconds

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Space-age whalers help grow fur coats, put a man on the moon

Published: April 28, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Portland man hailed as a hero for murdering sister’s ex-lover

Published: April 27, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds

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Murderers wandered valley desperate for an alibi

Published: April 24, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Tawdry love triangle ends in murder and a kiss from a corpse

Published: April 23, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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Murderer shirked execution by faking a coma for 2 years

Published: April 22, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 34 seconds

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Shipwreck ends Astoria's bid to be “Nantucket of the West Coast”

Published: April 21, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds

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The Unwritten Law: A license to kill for every (male) Oregonian

Published: April 20, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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Race exclusion of early Oregon is still embarrassing today

Published: April 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

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Ship sailed across two miles of sandy beach, rescued itself

Published: April 16, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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Was legendary city of Quivira on Oregon Coast?

Published: April 15, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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The day the drinks were on teetotaling Governor Oswald West

Published: April 14, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds

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The ones that got away: Almost-shipwrecks on the Columbia Bar

Published: April 13, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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First youth symphony in U.S. came out of Oregon’s high desert

Published: April 10, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 54 seconds

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Bootlegger’s paradise: Oregon’s Prohibition adventures

Published: April 9, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds

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Man’s hanging may have prevented a “tong war”

Published: April 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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Life of Sacagawea’s mountain-man son a tantalizing mystery

Published: April 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Six Central Oregon picnickers were balloon bombs’ only victims

Published: April 6, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 3 seconds

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The Great Sea Serpent of the Columbia River Bar got lamely named “Colossal Claude”

Published: April 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds

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Mob racketeers, corrupt union men battled over pinball

Published: April 2, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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“Tillamook Guerillas” were ready for Japanese invasion

Published: April 1, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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The wreck of the U.S.S. Shark: Navy’s loss was beach’s gain

Published: March 31, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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Navy schooner doomed by skipper’s fear of skipping sailors

Published: March 30, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Giant DC-8 jet lands at tiny country airport by mistake

Published: March 27, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 16 seconds

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Little-known hero of Silver Lake fire died saving dozens of lives

Published: March 24, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 49 seconds

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Oregon’s 20th-century “gold rush”: The quest for uranium

Published: March 23, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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Mariner’s eerie dream predicted shipmates’ deaths

Published: March 20, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds

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Oregon’s Harry Lane: A real hero of the First World War

Published: March 19, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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The wreck of the Glenesslin: Insurance fraud, or just drunken incompetence?

Published: March 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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Rookie highway robber turned out to be Joaquin Miller’s son

Published: March 16, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds

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With a friend like A.C. Edmunds, early suffragists needed no enemies!

Published: March 13, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds

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McCarty Gang’s Oregon story: “Bonanza” meets “Unforgiven”

Published: March 12, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 38 seconds

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Helicopter crash had huge impact on independence of Oregon journalism

Published: March 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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Two fatal crashes made 1933 a rough year for Oregon aviators

Published: March 10, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Sudden windstorm caught ship at worst possible moment

Published: March 9, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Gold-field bandits’ stolen loot still hasn’t been found

Published: March 5, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Larry Sullivan’s internationally notorious shanghaiing syndicate

Published: March 4, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds

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Larry Sullivan: Boxer, politician, con artist, shanghai man

Published: March 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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State government was “decapitated” by deadly 1947 plane crash

Published: March 2, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds

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When Astoria was the Detroit of fish-boat engines

Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

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Tired of watching mariners die, lighthouse keeper started a rescue service

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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Lake County feud ended with double murder by masked assassins

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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Lessons from Christmastime plane crash still save lives today

Published: Feb. 24, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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Legendary Oregon wrestler got pinned by a heavyweight real-estate dream

Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 32 seconds

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Former Albany newsman saved Crater Lake for a national park

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 2 seconds

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Jim Turk: shanghaiier, swindler, drunkard, millionaire

Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds

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Oregon’s worst plane crash is also its most mysterious

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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Neighbor’s theft of widow and orphans’ home was too much for jury

Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds

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Did Oregon’s political super-villain save world from Nazis?

Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds

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Fish wheels a legacy of when Columbia swarmed with salmon

Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Visit to Portland ended with life in prison for teen adventurer

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 43 seconds

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Klamath Falls airport had an unusual, lethal run of bad luck

Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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“Graveyard of the Pacific” was not easily tamed

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Hawaii-bound airliner out of PDX ditched in the open sea

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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Mayors Lee, Schrunk set tone for mid-century P-town

Published: Jan. 31, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds

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The fall of the Prineville Vigilantes

Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 2 seconds

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When the Vigilantes ruled Prineville

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds

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PDX-bound airliner was blown out of sky for mom’s insurance

Published: Jan. 27, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds

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Japan’s balloon bombs could have done a lot more damage

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Horrifying asylum kitchen mix-up left dozens dead

Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

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Vigilante’s gunfight left three neighbors dead, led to gallows

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes

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Frontier Portland mayors could be real drama queens

Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 36 seconds

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The day whale meat rained down on the town of Florence

Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 46 seconds

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Courthouse square once was the site of palatial “Hotel Portland”

Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Car chase at Crater Lake ended like a scene in a Tom Clancy novel

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 9 seconds

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Skill, stout shipbuilding kept shipwreck fatality-free

Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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“Christmas ship” could have used some navigation help from Santa

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds

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Boozy generosity turned tables for the Prineville Nine that day

Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 24 seconds

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Was Lewis O’Neil a murderer — or did he take the rap for one?

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Oregon’s first murder defendant saved by his wife

Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds

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Sen. John H. Mitchell: The Snidely Whiplash of Oregon

Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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Parks department aggressiveness cost Yachats its beach access

Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds

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Laws in old Oregon were rough, but not always ready

Published: Dec. 27, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds

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Truck bombs doomed the cause of newspapers’ striking unions

Published: Dec. 26, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds

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One man’s cheating heart likely cost Portland its local newspaper

Published: Dec. 25, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 21 seconds

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Long-lost Guild’s Lake was once Portland’s water wonderland

Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 16 seconds

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Brutal 1886 ax-murder pageant couldn’t have been more sordid

Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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U.S.S. Oregon lost in Pearl Harbor attack — sort of

Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Supreme Court once declared slavery legal, but only for sailors

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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If only these bones could talk: Mysterious skeletons of Oregon

Published: Dec. 17, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Little-known lakeside resort was packed with Hollywood stars

Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds

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Carrie’s sidekicks proved very bad at corpse disposal

Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds

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Roseburg’s “Champagne Riot”: Probably not what you think

Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 24 seconds

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Deadly weather catches Oregon by surprise when it comes

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds

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Oregon’s “International Murderer o’ Mystery”

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds

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Bordello madam was a real-life Brigid O’Shaughnessy

Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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Oregon had the first female governor in U.S. history — for one weekend, in 1909

Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds

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Vaudeville Susie’s Riot; or, Entertainment on the Frontier

Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds

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Auburn: A long-gone gold town’s short but colorful past

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds

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To get back to sea, beached ship had to “sail” through woods

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 25 seconds

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West Coast’s first published novel a torrid page-turner

Published: Nov. 29, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 41 seconds

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Libertarian from Eugene was first female VP candidate to get Electoral College vote

Published: Nov. 28, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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Who had the motive to frame an innocent man? Everyone did

Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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In trial, top suspect became star witness against innocent man

Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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Did brutal railroad-car murder end in cynical “railroad job”?

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 7 seconds

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Oregon’s literary legacy is built on “confession” novel

Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 9 seconds

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The ship that suddenly broke in half while moored at the dock

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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For captain and crew, shipwreck was luckiest break of their lives

Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Oregon senator almost became President; lucky for us, he didn’t

Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 9 seconds

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Spooky UFO cult lured away 20 Oregonians to follow “The Two”

Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds

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Harney County rancher saves pioneer Oregon aviator’s life

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Southern Oregon populist leader had plans for guerilla uprising

Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds

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The Jackson County Rebellion: Llewellyn Banks comes to power

Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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“Jackson County Rebellion” grew out of newspapers’ fight

Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Unique Kiwanda dory fleet launch straight into the surf

Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 32 seconds

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The Circuit Preacher Chronicles: A longshoreman's funeral

Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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The Circuit Preacher chronicles: Shanghaiing up a flock

Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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The Circuit Preacher Chronicles: Rev. Lemuel Wells’ wild ride

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds

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Tiny home-built schooner saved Tillamook settlers

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 38 seconds

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Free-love “Harmonial Brotherhood” was a disaster

Published: Oct. 30, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 37 seconds

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The father of Oregon’s nursery industry and his “Free Love” cult

Published: Oct. 29, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds

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Oregon lad became a founding father of Russian Communism

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Would inventor’s steam-powered metal airship have worked?

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Oregon’s ‘Miner 29ers’ beat Depression with gold pan

Published: Oct. 18, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 14 seconds

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Simpson timber empire made Coos Bay a shipbuilding capital

Published: Oct. 16, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds

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Wreck of the steamer U.S. Grant: A baffling historical mystery

Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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Benton County lad became the “Nicola Tesla of Oregon”

Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Politicians’ plan for Army to seize gold mines was foiled

Published: Oct. 11, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds

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Albany’s “Queen of Fakers” belongs in swindlers’ hall of fame

Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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Nutty 1890s governor left Oregon with two Thanksgivings

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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Doomed schooner’s crew locked in race against fiery death

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds

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Albany’s E.F. Lee was Oregon’s first fake-viagra scammer

Published: Oct. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds

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The short, tragic history of whaling in Portland city limits

Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds

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Captain’s refusal to leave shipwreck angered rescuers

Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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Lobster trap for bootleggers a huge but costly success

Published: Sept. 27, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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Frontier Oregon swindlers: The traveling medicine shows

Published: Sept. 25, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Scholarly Albany flyer was true father of Oregon aviation

Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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For Milwaukie gas station owner, bomber trip was wild adventure

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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Oregon Trail medicine; or, How Not to Die of Dysentery

Published: Sept. 18, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Offer of bonus worked out badly for owner of wrecked ship

Published: Sept. 17, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 3 seconds

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Fossil hunters’ unprofessional “bone wars” touched Oregon, but barely

Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds

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How a humble banana peel changed Oregon history:

Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 19 seconds

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Great women of Oregon History, Part II: The “Firsts”

Published: Sept. 11, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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Duniway isn’t the only great woman of Oregon history

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

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Announcement: Schedule is screwy for a month or two

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 4 seconds

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Portland’s “Jitney Wars” pitted entrepreneurs against monopoly

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds

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Port Orford P.R. wizard managed Jefferson secession like a movie

Published: Sept. 4, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds

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Jefferson “secession” of 1941 was largely a publicity stunt

Published: Sept. 3, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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The Port Orford Meteorite: Was it all a big hoax?

Published: Sept. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 24 seconds

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“Hold-up session” featured a big drunken house party

Published: Aug. 30, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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How a Corvallis man learned that cows make lousy boat motors

Published: Aug. 29, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds

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Over the Bar, by Lischen M. Miller

Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 4 seconds

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One cold snap taught a town to skate; another sank a steamship

Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 54 seconds

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Fire in the Bush, by Stewart Holbrook

Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 17 seconds

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Bungling attempt by crimps bookended shanghaiing era

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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Wild West bearcat Mona Bell was like Annie Oakley, with an edge

Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 51 seconds

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The Hermit of the Siskiyous, by Henry Laurenz

Published: Aug. 21, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Mount Hood: So mild-mannered, you forget it’s an active volcano

Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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The Haunted Light at Newport-by-the-Sea, by Lischen M. Miller

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 30 seconds

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Plan to stop shanghaiing: Give the worst shanghaier a monopoly

Published: Aug. 16, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 55 seconds

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Rosecrans rescue was one of Coast Guard’s finest hours

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds

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Cursed or not, S.S. Rosecrans was one unlucky ship

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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Mount Angel Abbey owes its grandeur to colorful Swiss monk

Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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The life of a “Bull-Cook”: A day in a 1920s logging camp

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds

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World boxing champ by day, shanghaier by night

Published: Aug. 9, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds

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How “Cape Foulweather Light” got built on the wrong headland

Published: Aug. 8, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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“Ship of Romance and Death” met dramatic end off Oregon Coast

Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds

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The Lost Ledge

Published: Aug. 5, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

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P-town’s Shanghai Tunnels: Mostly myth — or are they?

Published: Aug. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

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Oregon Governor Geer is state’s “patron saint of bike commuters”

Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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