Legendary Cayuse pony breed gave Indians far more endurance and speed than settlers' mounts...

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In their little house on Druid Street in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland, Robert Green and his family were getting ready for bed when they heard the screams.

Inventor Victor Strode combined aircraft design with naval architecture to create an amazing, blinding fast speedboat that looked straight out of a Golden Age sci-fi comic ...

This is an age of do-it-first, said Silas Christofferson, and proceeded to launch his spindly kite-like aeroplane from the roof of a downtown hotel

Calling himself J. Hawker, David Heesh dynamited several high-voltage powerline towers, then threatened to keep it up unless ransom was delivered...

The oysters belonged to the Siletz Indians and their employees, but Richard Hillyer was determined to take them anyway....

During its glory days, the Gertrude was the fastest blockade runner in the Confederate fleet. But just 17 years later...

Mayor Frank Ivancie, Pioneer Courthouse Squares most intransigent opponent, gleefully declared the project dead in a 1982 speech....

Ashamed to show his face in Astoria after causing the loss of the biggest passenger liner on the West Coast, Thomas Doig slunk away to South America...