Native Americans told Coronado there was a fabulous gold-and-turquoise city called Quivira just to the east -- or was it the north?...

In Gold Rush-era Oregon, the most skilled miners were probably the Chinese but they were in constant danger....

Calm seas, a hard-working crew and a cool-headed skipper helped the steamship Congress and everyone on board survive a terrifying night...

State health officials scoffed at the idea of hydrophobia in Oregon until people started dying....

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On May 3, 1938, Federal Writers Project worker Andrew Sherbert sat down with a tall, urbane, professional 70-year-old mining-law specialist named J. Thorburn Ross...

It was obvious to nearly everyone that Chee Gong was innocent. But...

The Reverend preached the funeral service to an empty church, while the deceased's friends and colleagues fought in the parking lot over who got to ride in the taxicabs. But...

When trying to minister to the spiritual needs of a crowd of hard-sinning miners and sailors, it was sometimes necessary to resort to unorthodox tactics...

Eagerly, the Reverend leaped into the waiting bathtub, positioned at the top of the stairs in the chilly foyer of the frontier hotel. And then, to his horror...