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....

TIME NEVER WAS on the U.S.S. Oregons side. She was launched in 1896, in the middle of a remarkable period of torrid innovation and development in the history of warships...

Patriotic Jeffersonians intend to secede each Thursday until further notice, the rebels said...

Boisterous and colorful man P.R. man Gilbert Gable, mayor of Port Orford, drew on the frustrations of the West Coast's remotest counties...

After the Civil War, refugees from the devastated South flooded west, seeking a fresh start ...

Entrepreneurs figured out how to send power long distances for the first time in history...

NOTE: For organizational reasons, this column is being published earlier than usual. You may already have heard this one.

Ironically, for this April Fools' Day episode we have a story that could have played as an April Fools' Day prank if it had happened on April 1...