Offbeat Oregon History podcast
A daily podcast of true Oregon stories from the wilder side of the Beaver State. Tales of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold, of shanghaied sailors and skid-road bordellos and pirates and robbers and buried treasure ... From the archives of the Offbeat ...
A daily podcast of true Oregon stories from the wilder side of the Beaver State. Tales of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold, of shanghaied sailors and skid-road bordellos and pirates and robbers and buried treasure ... From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column.
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Captain's quick decision saved hundreds from a fiery death
Legendary riverman Uriah Scott had to choose between trying to ...
Legendary riverman Uriah Scott had to choose between trying to save his steamboat and trying to save his passengers. He didn't hesitate for a second.
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Did brutal railroad-car murder end in cynical “railroad job”?
Local authorities were stumped; the entire nation was watching, and ...
Local authorities were stumped; the entire nation was watching, and the most likely suspect, a uniformed U.S. Marine, was already being hailed a a heroic would-be-rescuer in the press.
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Little-known hero of Silver Lake fire died saving dozens of lives
When the packed community center caught fire, Lucinda Schroder ran ...
When the packed community center caught fire, Lucinda Schroder ran back inside and blocked the door open with her body, enabling dozens who otherwise would have been pinned and crushed against the closed door to escape.
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Missing gold suggests something sinister in shipwreck mystery
There were, so far as we know, no survivors. But ...
There were, so far as we know, no survivors. But when the upside-down hulk drifted ashore, it was 200 miles off course — and there was no sign of the 40-pound keg of gold it had been carrying. What happened? Nobody knows.
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The ship that suddenly broke in half while moored at the dock
The combination of bitter cold air and relatively warm river ...
The combination of bitter cold air and relatively warm river water acted on the S.S. Schenechtady's brittle welded-steel plates like boiling water poured into a cold Mason jar. The results were similar, but on a massive scale.
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Opium culture a long-forgotten part of the urban underworld
A century ago, the drug had a dark, smoky allure ...
A century ago, the drug had a dark, smoky allure for the "fast" young men and women of Oregon cities, and smuggling routes through Portland were supplying the entire West Coast with the exotic, deadly stuff.
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Iconic movies filmed in Oregon, Part Three: 1975-1989
As a filming location, Oregon really started to come into ...
As a filming location, Oregon really started to come into its own in the 1980s, and many locals can point to key cultural touchstones that played out right in their home towns.
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For captain and crew, shipwreck was luckiest break of their lives
Whatever happened to the S.S. Drexel Victory as she steamed ...
Whatever happened to the S.S. Drexel Victory as she steamed across the Columbia River Bar that day sent her to the bottom in little more than an hour, but everyone survived. Had it happened during a storm in mid-Pacific, though ...
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Charming gentleman by day, highway robber by night
Charles “Black Bart” Bolton's neighbors in San Francisco thought his ...
Charles “Black Bart” Bolton's neighbors in San Francisco thought his money came from ownership in gold mines. It turned out it came from furtive excursions northward to rob stagecoaches in Oregon and northern California.
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Iconic movies filmed in Oregon, Part Two: 1965-1975
By the early 1960s, word started getting out in Hollywood ...
By the early 1960s, word started getting out in Hollywood about Oregon's virtues as a place to shoot on location. Productions made here during these eventful years follow changes in popular culture in an almost spooky way.
