When Salem native Alfred Carlton Gilbert, inventor of the Erector Set, learned that government officials were going to cancel Christmas with their Buy Bonds, Not Toys campaign, he went to Washington

A.C. Gilbert was a practicing magician good enough to astonish Hermann the Great at age 7, a world-record-holding athlete at age 17, and a born salesman...

Forest Grove drugstore responded to city's ban on recreational alcohol by adopting the 'marijuana dispensary' model for medicinal booze, and opening a blind pig in the back....

The myrtlewood "so-called dollars" are still legal tender there, and have been since they were made during the Great Depression ...

While the captain of the Emily G. Reed was sadly reporting the loss of 11 brave mariners, four of the missing were drifting northward...

ON THE MORNING of Dec. 7, 1904, Stephen A.D. Puter had just arrived at the office of U.S. Marshal Jack Matthews. He was expecting some friends to come by and bail him out of jail....

Young cowboy David Tucker wanted a share of the loot so he could marry his sweetheart...

Klamath County was about to move into a courthouse just outside town -- but...

A Native American story tells of a galleon coming to the bluff, just south of Astoria, and its crew burying a mysterious chest there guarded by the body of a murdered crew member....

He might have accomplished it, too, but he lost friends when he tried to claim water rights to Bull Run, and...