On the morning of Nov. 25, 1881, two men were walking to work along the North End waterfront when they saw something incongruous in the river...

The Femme Fatale, like most really satisfying tropes in fiction, is based on real life....

In a race with Portland neophile Henry Wemme to be the first owner of an airplane in Oregon, Cornell-educated John Burkhart was two weeks too late; but...

The geographical evidence isn't there; but every nearby Indian community has legends about the river tunneling underground for miles...

Young Charley Imus was the son of the local undertaker, and he and a school friend were tasked with watching over a corpse while an Irish wake was going on...

IN THE SUMMER of 1981 a little action-adventure movie titled Raiders of the Lost Ark came out, and fans have been speculating ever since on who the character of Indiana Jones might be based on....

This was the town where the Eastern Oregon Gold Rush of '61 got started, and it was a wild and lawless place...

On the bright side, though, the owner of the Desdemona did get to go down in history or, rather, geography...

Up-and-coming Democrat Oswald West had been sent to Portland on a last-ditch attempt to talk Harry Lane into running for governor. But Lane said no; so...

Fans of shanghaiing-era waterfront culture will not want to miss this WPA oral history, collected in 1938....