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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Vaudeville Susie's Riot; or, How Seriously Frontier Oregon Took its Entertainment
The Rebel sympathizers resented the Union soldiers taking all the ...
The Rebel sympathizers resented the Union soldiers taking all the seats when Vaudeville star Susie Robinson of Corvallis took the stage. The soldiers wouldn't back down. Then somebody pulled a pistol ... and the battle was on.
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Crew of shipwrecked schooner rescued — by a railroad train
A small construction engine was being used to build the ...
A small construction engine was being used to build the South Jetty, to protect the mouth of the Columbia River for ships, when one off-course sailing ship crashed into it — so construction crews chugged to the rescue.
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“Blue Ruin” drove lawmakers to drink — and prohibition
Before Oregon was even a state, its territorial government outlawed ...
Before Oregon was even a state, its territorial government outlawed all booze. Why? It all has to do with a fellow who could probably be called the true founder of the city of Portland — and his ever-bubbling moonshine still.
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The Circuit Preacher Chronicles: A longshoreman's funeral
The Reverend preached the funeral service to an empty church, ...
The Reverend preached the funeral service to an empty church, while the deceased's friends and colleagues fought in the parking lot over who got to ride in the taxicabs. But the hostilities were forgotten when they arrived at a roadhouse.
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“Hermit of the Craggies” went from acorns and roots to prison food
Convinced his only neighbor was out to get him, solitary ...
Convinced his only neighbor was out to get him, solitary trapper and paranoid former prospector “Crazy Hugo” ambushed him with a rifle; the state prison became his retirement home.
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Palatial riverboat was caught in a hurricane on the open sea
Designed for calm inland waterways, the sidewheel steamboat Alaskan was ...
Designed for calm inland waterways, the sidewheel steamboat Alaskan was no match for the massive late-spring gale that pounced on it off Cape Blanco one fateful night in 1889.
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The Circuit Preacher chronicles: Shanghaiing up a flock for the Lord
When trying to minister to the spiritual needs of a ...
When trying to minister to the spiritual needs of a crowd of hard-sinning miners and sailors, it was sometimes necessary to resort to unorthodox tactics — tactics not often seen among men of the cloth in more civilized times.
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Coast Guard's dramatic rescue saved ship — for Stalin's most notorious gulag
Norwegian freighter got off course, piled onto Peacock Spit; a ...
Norwegian freighter got off course, piled onto Peacock Spit; a cutter pulled it off, and motor lifeboat crews rescued its crew, and the wallowing ship was pulled to port and repaired. A happy ending? Well, not for the Russians, it wasn't.
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Oregon's highways were the envy of the West
State had first paved road border-to-border west of Mississippi, in ...
State had first paved road border-to-border west of Mississippi, in 1923.
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The Circuit Preacher Chronicles: Rev. Wells’ wild ride
Eagerly, the Reverend leaped into the waiting bathtub, positioned at ...
Eagerly, the Reverend leaped into the waiting bathtub, positioned at the top of the stairs in the chilly foyer of the frontier hotel. And then, to his horror, he realized it was sliding toward the top of the staircase on a sheet of ice ...
