Created to stifle Indian culture, the oldest surviving Native American boarding school has done the opposite...

Two liquored-up Navy deserters planned to seize control of a passenger liner, drive it onto the beach and steal away into the night with three tons of gold....

Everyone in Ashland knew Amanda McDaniel and Lewis O'Neil were having a little affair; so, when Amanda's husband turned up murdered with O'Neil's shotgun...

Part 2 of WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Harvey Starkweather...

In the first half of the 1800s, mainstream medical doctors were not very trusted...

The old Portland shanghai scene's 'original gangster' was a mysterious character. Did he really inherit a huge fortune? If not, where did the money come from?

Eager to get started on Smelt Sands Park, the state forcibly vacated Lane County's right-of-way on its 804 Road along the beach, and beachfront property owners quickly fenced it off....

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Harvey Starkweather...

Not many people know it, but Oregon had U.S. history's first female governor (in 1909)...

Other pioneering Oregonians worthy of having bridges and mountains named after them include...