OCT. 1, 1880, WAS a very big day in Portland. For the first time in the history of the city or the state, a sitting President of the United States had come to visit.

"The Mother of Oregon History fell on hard times in the late 1870s. She never quit, but...

Frances Fuller Victor became the founding mother of all Oregon history, and one of its most important writers of all time....

The evidence against Charles Kimzey was circumstantial, but police had the goods on him for an attempted murder the year before, so he was sent up the river on a life stretch. But...

Ed Nickols hadn't wanted to spend the winter by himself at the remote cabin, because he'd made a dangerous enemy in a former coworker who turned out to be an escaped convict. So...

The 19th Century was a kind of golden age of body snatching. Digging up the freshly dead to cash the corpse in at the back door of a nearby medical school was well, not common exactly, but far from

But in 1861, the worst floods in state history turned the Willamette Valley into one giant half-million-acre lake and swept several burgeoning towns away....

Last and most successful explosion, in 1909, was rumored to have been the work of students, who felt they needed a new building...

Eugene city leaders campaigned hard at the ballot box to stop South Lane County from seceding, and the plan to create a new county was defeated. But then ...

Is there anything to the story of the Native American man who came out of the woods every few years with a snuff can full of gold dust? Maybe.