Bride of Christ cult sought perfect righeousness, Christ-like simplicity and total humility. In practice, though...

Preacher Edmund Creffield's Bride of Christ Church broke up families, sanctioned adultery and inspired deadly violence in the early 20th Century....

Young Henry Miller, rejected by his illustrious father, turned to a life of crime, but he turned out not to be very good at it....

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Mrs. J.R. Bean, and some excerpts from the reminiscences of one of her in-laws, James Meikle Sharp...

Abraham Coryell Edmunds, throughout his several careers in Oregon and California, was almost like a cartoon a larger-than-life loser in the vein of Wile E. Coyote...

Oregon went 'dry' in 1914, so by the time the Volstead Act passed in 1919, Beaver State bootleggers were already seasoned professionals. ...

A small construction engine was being used to build the South Jetty, to protect the mouth of the Columbia River for ships...

Not since before the Civil War had so many mariners drowned in a shipwreck on the Columbia River bar...

This is the third and final part of WPA writer William Haight's oral history interview with Mrs. Neil Niven...

The railroad, the local police agencies, and the U.S. War Department all desperately wanted to prosecute somebody, anybody ...