College professor's forensic investigation fingered the DeAutremont Brothers in the brutal robbery; after a years-long manhunt, and more than 2 million wanted posters, they were caught. But ...

After several other attempts to get into the crime business didn't work out for them, the DeAutremont brothers came up with a plan to rob a train at the summit of the Siskiyous....

It was no 'Heaven's Gate' -- 'The Way West' was more like the 'Ishtar' of the late 1960s. ...

Portlander Walter Waters arrived in D.C. at the head of 20,000 disciplined, well-intentioned petitioners to request that First World War vets be paid their service bonus early....

The coroner ruled Thomas McMahon's death an accident, and everyone moved on. But...

Uncle Joab was the most famous preacher in the West for a reason ... and that reason was pretty much exactly why the pioneer lawmakers found him to be a bad fit as Chaplain of the Legislature....

When the Legislature of the new state of Oregon started looking for someone to serve as the state's first Chaplain of the Legislature, Uncle Joab's name naturally came readily to mind. But ...

Had James Marshall stayed in Oregon for one more month, he likely never would have left...

Designed for calm inland waterways, the sidewheel steamboat Alaskan was no match for the massive late-spring gale that pounced on it...

East Portland's White Eagle Saloon has a colorful past. Over the years, it's been local headquarters for the Polish Resistance...