The year after the Civil War ended, the partisans of North and South still clung to their resentments in Douglas County....

He called himself James Cook, and spoke with an English accent. But when asked about his past, he spun fanciful and ever-changing stories...

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Minerva Thessing. Ms. Thessing grew up near Milwaukie in the 1860s and was friends with some of Oregon's most famous pioneer characters, from Ben

The engines that went into these old-school boats were slow, heavy, primitive, and built in one of several factories in San Francisco. ...

Crook County citizens finally decided they'd had enough of the secretive lynchings and killings; they banded together...

In Crook County, the early 1880s were like something out of a Louis L'Amour novel: Masked riders galloping around by night...

After Columbia Lightship broke its lines and drifted ashore, the salvage bid was won by a house-moving company from Portland...

WPA writer William C. Haight's 1939 oral history interview with a fascinating fortune-teller he identified only as 'Miss Smith,'...

On any list of Oregon firsts, theres one name that almost never pops up - Dr. Adaline M. Weed. Which is understandable, because...

Sent downstairs to fetch a pan of powdered milk, a kitchen assistant at the Oregon State Hospital dipped his scoop into the wrong bin...