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)
‘Daredevil Al’ Fossett was Evel Knievel of the ’20s
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West’s first female lawyer: A legal Mother Teresa?
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Pioneering “lady lawyer” deserved a better legacy
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Acquitted murder suspect became first ‘lady lawyer’
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Fiery explosive shipwreck gave Boiler Bay its name
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Bob Straub stopped plan to put highway on the beach
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Shanghaied in Astoria: A once-perilous port city
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Secretary imposed martial law on rowdy town
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Legislators shut down Salem with a raging party
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Wolf Creek Tavern was a refuge for Hollywood stars
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How Marie Dorion earned title ‘Oregon’s Revenant’ (Part 3 of 3)
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Astorian party’s decision to follow river proved fatal (Part 2 of 3)
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Marie Aioe Dorion was a wilderness-survival ninja (Part 1 of 3)
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Legendary Civil War ship met a sad end in Coos Bay
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Dispute over 'McQuinn Strip' lasted more than a century (Part 2 of 2)
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Dispute over Indians’ land lasted for 101 years (Part 1 of 2)
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Bungling ex-crimps book-ended shanghaiing era
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Plan to stop shanghaiing: Give Sullivan a monopoly
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World boxing champ by day, shanghaier by night
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Shanghaiing in Portland: P-town's time as shanghaiing capital of the world (2 of...
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Shanghaiing in Portland: How the 'crimping' business worked (1 of 2)
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How ‘FBI’s Most Wanted’ gangster was busted
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‘Hold-up session’ featured big drunken house party
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‘Oregon’s Outback’ a real moonshiner’s paradise
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Bing cherry has its roots on the Oregon Trail
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Gov. T.T. Geer is Oregon’s ‘patron saint of bicyclists’
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For Oregon pioneer family, highway robbers were lifesavers
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‘Diamond Bill’ Barrett was a modern Mr. Wickham
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Rescue station keeper’s cowardice got 11 killed
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Oregon Vortex: 95 years of keeping experts guessing
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The crazy story of U.S.’s first woman governor (Part 2 of 2)
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The crazy story of U.S.’s first woman governor (Part 1 of 2)
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Land-fraud swindlers plundered Oregon badly (Part 2 of 2)
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Land-fraud swindlers plundered Oregon badly (Part 1 of 2)
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'Most Wanted' desperadoes found a home and respect in Oregon(Part 2 of 2)
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Running from FBI? Hide in a friendly Oregon town!
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P-town mansion was once home of starvation cult
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Oregon man’s wife killed his SCOTUS appointment
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‘Cape Foulweather Light’ built on the wrong cape
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Body snatchers' incompetence actually saved them from more serious charges (Part...
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Body snatchers plotted to steal dead mayor’s corpse (Part 1 of 2)
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‘Blue Ruin’ drove Oregon to drink—and prohibition
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Larry Sullivan's 'second act' career dwarfed his first (Part 2 of 2)
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Boss shanghaier Sullivan’s mining-stock fraud career (Part 1 of 2)
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Brides were stripped of U.S. citizenship at the altar
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Oregonians had the jump on California Gold Rush
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Palatial riverboat caught in hurricane on open sea
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Drunk looting party broke out at scene of shipwreck
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Civil War plotters hoped to get West Coast to secede
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Buster Keaton brought Hollywood to Cottage Grove (Part 2 of 2)
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