She had a record of uninhibited and acerbic writing; she was preparing what appeared to be a super-racy tell-all memoir; and...

MARGARET JEWETT BAILEY WAS not only Oregons first author of novel-length fiction, she was also the West Coasts first published female author, and its first female newspaper journalist....

WPA writer William C. Haight's oral history interview with Joseph Stangler, a 62-year-old veteran of James J. Hill's railroad building workcrews...

AS EVERY SENSIBLE person knows, there is pretty much no such thing as being cruel to be kind....

The grand monument to the Gilded Age was a municipal architectural treasure and hosted U.S. presidents, but...

New York schemers sought to have former Oregon governor and Senator Joseph Lane named President....

THERES NOT A WHOLE LOT going on these days in the Eastern Oregon community of Jordan Valley (pop. 181). But 100 years ago...

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Cyrus Woodworth, a retired banker and former telegrapher living in Salem and Portland from the 1870s to the 1930s....

ESPECIALLY IN THE LATE 1800s, the Oregon frontier was no stranger to acts of judicial lynching...

Wall Street financial wizard Thomas Lawson happened to be in town and betting on Prineville....