As a filming location, Oregon really started to come into its own in the 1980s...

By the early 1960s, word started getting out in Hollywood about Oregon's virtues as a place to shoot on location....

As a place to go shoot pictures on location, Oregon has become pretty popular in the last few dozen years....

At the critical moment, the keeper of the rescue station at Cape Arago lost his nerve and deserted his waiting crew....

The fix was in -- all the legislators who needed to be bribed had been paid off -- so John Mitchell felt comfortable 'fessing up to his plans to double-cross Jonathan Bourne and his 'Friends of Silver

State regulators didn't care, so neither did some dairy farmers, who left dead cows to rot among their dairy herds and brought milk to market in the same cans they used to slop the hogs...

Oregons last geothermal water-blaster, Old Perpetual, erupted for the last time sometime in the spring of 2009...

>Promoter Harry Glickman was late getting to the key meeting, so Baltimore Bullets basketball team owner Abe Pollin stalled for time ...

Although she's most remembered for being the mistress of a famous man, journalist and rodeo performer Mona Bell Hill was, on her own, one of the most interesting people ever to live in Oregon...

IT WAS A TYPICAL balmy August evening at the Oregon State Penitentiary. The bell had rung for supper, so inmates were streaming out of their cells and heading toward the dining hall, as usual. But on