Half a century of winning labor disputes left the waterfront employers feeling overconfident....

Created and priced as a luxury line to compete with coal-fired steam trains, the railroad collapsed rapidly after automobiles came on the scene....

Political boss James Lotan had landed a federal appointment that was flush with possibilities for graft and corruption....

Canadian bootlegger gang tried to bust three rumrunners out of Lincoln County Jail; it probably would have worked...

In Whale Cove, Canadian rumrunners lost their boat engine at the worst possible time and ended up on shore. So...

When the sheriff arrived to enforce the law, he brought with him a pro-temperance preacher from one of the local churches...

Crusty, spluttering city leaders, full of self-righteous outrage over mixed-race dancing that was going on at The Dude Ranch, ...

Logger, watching 'timber worms' chew through a log, wondered, 'How do they do that?' So ...

Joe Wolf invented it for loggers, but they wanted nothing to do with his electric saw....

Dozens and dozens of mercury-laden purgative pills invented by Founding Father Benjamin Rush were an indispensible part of the Corps of Discovery's kit...