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

Sometimes the silent bones of the long dead almost seem to want to tell their stories ... but, of course, they can't....

In 1893, famously irascible governor Sylvester Pennoyer made a mistake on the date of Turkey Day in a speech. But then...

Miner William Aldred, traveling to a rumored bonanza in Idaho with five dozen other miners, found two gold mines on the way but...

WPA writer William Haight's oral history interview with Miss Etta Crawford...

From 1861 to 1876, every man committed to the Oregon State Penitentiary for life either escaped or was pardoned, writes historian and newspaper columnist Erik Bromberg...

Cyclones, tornadoes, flash floods, earthquakes and volcanoes the Beaver State is not immune to any of these things...