When the steamboat Gazelle reached the dock, the man in charge of its steam boilers leaped ashore and ran like a man being chased by demons....

Convinced his only neighbor was out to get him, solitary trapper and paranoid former prospector Crazy Hugo ambushed him with a rifle...

Lessons learned in the crash ended up saving countless lives in subsequent at-sea ditchings, but those lessons came at a price....

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Miss Jean Slauson of Oswego and two of her young cousins...

The Jackson County Rebellion faded away after political boss Llewellyn Banks shot a policeman with a .30-06 during an attempted warrant service....

For leaders of the Good Government Congress, the Great Depression was a golden opportunity to crystallize popular bewilderment into hatred ...

An autocratic populist from southern California, arriving in Medford in a flashy Cadillac, managed to position himself as a leader of the poor and disenfranchised....

Jack Graham had planned for the airliner to explode over the Wyoming mountains; but the plane got out late...

WPA writer William C. Haight's oral history interview with gold miner Carl Hentz...

In 1923 when Oregons KGW Radio launched the worlds first radio variety show, it became almost a nationwide sensation within just a few months....