At the pay the city of Sandy was offering, Otto Austin Loel was the only man willing to take the job. He didn't turn out to be much of a bargain ...

The mild-mannered drywall contractor turned out to be a notorious gangster after an article in the Morning Oregonian published his mugshots...

The motto of Kate Ann Williams' cult was Pray and be Cured, and adherents went on rigorous 40-day fasts that occasionally killed them....

Senate committee went from a solid consensus to confirm George H. Williams, to a firm determination not to, in just one week. The cause?

The Grande Ronde Valley was a little pocket of temperate, well-watered land, tucked into some of the most inhospitable territory on the trail, was a real lifesaver for many an emigrant. But that didn'

World's Greatest Trick Rider sold more than 50,000 bicycles in an age when bikes were the cutting edge of transportation technology; Oregon women loved them...

Named after the warden who invented it, the Gardner Shackle eventually caused serious musculoskeletal damage...

State treasurer Straub was a regular visitor to the state park through which the highway department wished to route the main Oregon Coast arterial....

Though home to some productive mines, the Blue Mountain boomtown made much of its money working the suckers back east...

Amsterdam Jack Murray claimed it was all a misunderstanding, but the jury obviously suspected he'd intended to murder his wife's brother all along...