The catastrophic failure of several of the Utopian cult's articles of faith especially on matters of diet and health care had doomed the community...

Former devout Quaker Henderson Luelling developed some odd beliefs in late middle age, founded a cult called Harmonial Brotherhood,...

When the Great Depression hit, many Oregonians decided to head for mining claims....

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with pioneer Oswego resident C.T. Dickinson, recalling how the land was when the lake was thick with fish and ducks and people were thin on the land..

Really, the only reason the U.S.S. Peacock didnt break into pieces and drown all hands within hours of slamming into the sand was that it was a United States Navy ship....

The hordes of awestruck visitors who admired the scenery at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition would have been shocked if they'd known the beautiful little lake would be gone in 20 years...

The little riverboat came loose from its moorings during a storm and floated downriver and onto the deadly bar with the owners aboard....

Some Eastern politicians had a plan for paying down Civil War debt: Send in the Army, with the aid of foreign troops...

When we get the story of early-day Oregon emigrants' journeys, usually they involve covered wagons. But this ...

It was the first murder trial ever held in the Oregon Territory. The prosecution alleged that Nimrod OKelley was a land pirate who had invented an imaginary wife in order to fraudulently claim extra