During the go-go years of the uranium-mining rush of the early 1950s, the character of the uranium prospector became iconic....

He couldn't claim all the credit for it, although he sometimes tried; and his attitude toward Native Americans was unfortunate. But...

Windjammer still holds a world speed record for sailing ships, but by the time of her demise, had been losing money for years...

Loaded with ordinance and launched by the thousands on the jet-stream currents, the weapons were a much bigger threat to American citizens than most now realize...

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Mrs. Annie Cason Lee...

ONE OF THE real privileges of being a lifelong Oregonian of a certain, er, vintage, is the opportunity to have seen this state in its golden age roughly, 1946 through 1980 through a childs eyes..

Every youth orchestra in America today can trace its ancestry back to the a tiny, dusty town in Eastern Oregon...

According to legend, the Triskett Gang underestimated the citizens of Sailors' Diggins, which became a fatal error when they went on a shooting spree downtown. ...

Four mariners on the sailing ship Arago, in Astoria, tried to quit and were tracked down by police and forced to return to work, like runaway slaves....

The story of a young lad swept up in the romance of the sea his maritime adventures and determination to settle down to a quiet retirement far away from home...