The short-lived attraction on Tomahawk Island was launched in an attempt to shake down the owners of nearby Jantzen Beach...

Two armed men who apparently came to rob travelers helped pull them over the pass instead...

Searching for a fabulous source of gold formerly belonging to a friend who'd mysteriously disappeared, miners stumbled across Crater Lake....

Jovial and gregarious, Adelhelm Odermatt locked his sights on a vision of a hilltop monastery...

IT WAS GETTING toward the end of the summer of 1902, and West Linn resident Ellis Hughes was getting worried....

What looked like a rotting-away hunk of scrap steel was a rare artifact of Portland's World War II shipbuilding industry but...

By far the most embarrassing jailbreak in state history happened when a murderer simply walked out the back door of a Motel 6 ...

Charles Black Bart Bolton's neighbors in San Francisco thought his money came from ownership in gold mines....

Elvis himself is rumored to have played at The Cottonwoods, a jumpin' joint near Lebanon, where thousands danced to the music of many of the 20th Century's greatest musicians....

The Mindora and the Merrithew had docked next to each other in San Francisco, arrived within a few days of each other, wrecked within a few hours of each other, and...