Entrepreneurs figured out how to send power over relatively long distances for the first time in history, established DC service to Portland...

Lumber magnate Simon Benson needed to get logs from the Columbia to his mill in Southern California, so he designed cigar-shaped log rafts a full acre in size....

Wild with grief over the death of one daughter, and convinced he had seduced her other daughter, Caroline Briggs attacked schoolteacher John Dalmater in front of his class, shouting 'Shoot the son of

Lit up from stem to stern like a torch, the wooden steam schooner J.Marhoffer slammed into the rocks after its crew pointed it landward and abandoned ship ...

Thomas Condon didnt set out to become a geologist; he was a Congregationalist minister with a hobby of collecting fossils....

Bafflingly, the Coast Guard's biggest rescue boat on the Columbia River Bar was one that hadn't been designed to survive a rollover. So...

Mammoth seas on the legendary Columbia River Bar, plus the untimely removal of a vital piece of life-saving gear by short-sighted military brass...

The Frishkorn family lived with two boarders, who paid the rent in exchange for board. Then they found out the boarders expected something else, too ...

The conditions were too rough even for the legendary Coast Guard 36-foot motor lifeboat to make it through the breakers, so

For the art students and pop-culture aficionados lined up, the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see and meet the Peter Pan of Pop Art ...