Perhaps thinking the Benton County Treasurer would have treasure in his office, they blew the safe with dynamite and were disappointed....

Richard Marple likely would have been acquitted for lack of hard evidence if he'd been able to keep his mouth shut. But...

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Ernest P. Elliott...

THE OREGON TRAIL has been called the worlds longest graveyard....

The legendary Portland boarding master sparked an international incident when he figured out how to shake the ship captains down...

A prizefighter with a great head for business, friends in high places and absolutely no conscience, Larry Sullivan organized Portland's shanghaiiers into a cartel...

After making a fortune pushing patent-medicine tablets, Roy Currier cashed out and used the money to build a tidy, discreet little fishing resort on Tenmile Creek...

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview, in January 1939, with a persnickety collector/hoarder of historical artifacts named Miss Mertie Stevens...

The Willamette River was running high and wild on the morning of Feb. 5, 1890, as Alden and Arthur Graham set out from Oregon City in their sternwheel riverboat for the daily run to Portland....

Like the hero of an 1800s cautionary tale, 17-year-old Joseph Swards stepped off the ship, fell in with bad company, got caught up in a robbery that went horribly wrong...