One fine day in October of 1891, a teenage boy named Aquilla Ernest Clark left the farm in Scappoose where hed been working, headed for Portland....

Had Edgar Rice Burroughs and his brothers been successful with their Snake River gold dredge...

Someone killed Oliver Kermit Smith with a massive dynamite bomb planted under his car seat ... and police soon figured out who. But did Smith's wife really put the killer up to the job...

Desperate for some ready cash after his steamer wrecked on the beach, the would-be magnate hastily built a railroad to nowhere over Santiam Pass in an attempt to swindle the federal government.

Few people know how close Oregon came to officially becoming a British possession under the treaty that ended the War of 1812 and the thing that "saved" the state...

Dreamed up by supporters of the old south, the plan envisioned an independent Pacific Republic as a slave state to be stocked with slaves by a sort of bait-and-switch swindle. But...

Twenty years after he tried to light the surrounding forests on fire, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita returned to Brookings as an honored guest

After World War II started, submariner and pilot Nobuo Fujita hatched an idea ...

The job got off to a bad start when the fireman escaped and sprinted for the nearby town. The main suspect in the robbery quickly left town...

The Baritone Bandit led a small group of desperados with a large cache of dynamite, and they got away with a good bit of loot from the Douglas County robbery. But...