Offbeat Oregon History podcast
www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)
The Offbeat Oregon History Podcast is a daily service from the Offbeat Oregon History newspaper column. Each weekday morning, a strange-but-true story from Oregon's history from the archives of the column is uploaded. An exploding whale, a few shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. Source citations are included with the text version on the Web site at...
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Episodes (387)
The last-minute choice that made aviation legend Jim Wright a true hero (Part 3...
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Aviator Jim Wright's day of triumph: A new world record at Reno Air Races (Part...
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The heroic final flight of Cottage Grove's Jim Wright: Part 1 of 3
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Trail Blazers’ fate hung on an extra-long bathroom break: Part 2 of 2
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Trail Blazers came to Portland thanks to amazing promoter: Part 1 of 2
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Lola Baldwin's life mission: Battle human trafficking in Portland
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First policewoman was a municipal Rescuer — like Bianca
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Did ‘Vortex I’ prevent riots in downtown Portland?
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McCall expected ‘Vortex I’ to cost him re-election
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Riot at PSU set the stage for ‘Governor’s Pot Party’
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Yachter’s treasure caught FBI’s interest too late
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Portland's Vaudeville mayor made city famous as well as notorious
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When The Oregonian newspaper burgled a candidate’s home
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How Stewart Holbrook became Oregon's great storyteller (Part 2 of 2)
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Stewart Holbrook: The literary spirit of mid-century Oregon (Part 1 of 2)
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How a national mythology was made from massacre
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Marcus Whitman: The man behind the myths and the massacre
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Portland home of world’s only working P.T. boat
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After logger’s murder, bordello madam vanished
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Cayuse tribe’s amazing ponies are now very rare
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Famous dance hall hosted Berry, Cash, many more
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The notorious Tusko led a colorful and tragic life
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Lotus Isle, Oregon’s most surreal amusement park
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Pirates were defeated in Yaquina Bay Oyster Wars
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NASA’s ‘Moon Trees’ have roots in Oregon forest fire
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‘Rajneesh’ or ‘Osho’? In Oregon, his name is mud (Part 4 of 4)
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Rajneeshees’ doom sealed by scheme to seize power (Part 3 of 4)
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Rajneeshees got on well with neighbors ... at first (Part 2 of 4)
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Rajneeshpuram: Oregon’s most (in)famous ashram (Part 1 of 4)
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Opium culture a forgotten part of urban underworld
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The ex-Oregonian who got the U.S. into World War II: Yosuke Matsuoka (#6 of seri...
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Japan's most influential diplomat of all time grew up in Portland (#5 of series...
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World's most incompetent drug smugglers lost tons of opium to theft, seizure (#4...
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Blum and Dunbar smuggled opium by the steamship load (#3 of series of 6 related...
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Lotan's venture into opium smuggling was doomed from the start (#2 of series of...
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The blind ferryman from Tillamook who could 'see' just fine — and an IMPORTANT A...
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Minor politician became opium king of West Coast (1 of series of 6 related episo...
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When the last geyser in Pacific Northwest went still in Lakeview
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Fossil Lake: Oregon’s answer to the LaBrea Tar Pits
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Town destroyed by its founder’s favorite garden shrub
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Steam excursion train line is now a new bike path
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How Sheriff Bentley arrested legendary outlaw Hank Vaughan — and an IMPORTANT AN...
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World champion hired to humiliate town bully
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Oregon Indian prince was Japan’s intro to the West
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An unrecognized Indian prince’s quest to see Japan
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Bike business in P-town ruined by ... prostitutes?
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Schemers sought to steal Peter Iredale shipwreck
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Uncle Dave's Incredible Shrinking Horse Story — and an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT .....
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The legendary lies and tall tales of Reub Long (2 of 2)
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Rancher Reub Long, the legendary Sage of Fort Rock (1 of 2)
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