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)
Buster Keaton brought Hollywood to Cottage Grove (Part 1 of 2)
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Prohibition sting ended with a deadly gunfight
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Town’s emergency wood money is still legal tender
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Bunny-massacre parties were big social events
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Corvallis man found cows make lousy boat engines
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Alcoholic shipmate drank snake-preserving whiskey
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Schemers’ plans to exploit Multnomah Falls failed
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Shanghai tunnels mostly a myth...or are they?
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Tarzan fans are grateful for gold miner’s failure
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Riverboat party turned out to be shanghaiing trick
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Skipper doubled down on a bad bet ... and lost it all
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Bad recording technique led to FBI investigation
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P-town’s rabbi got in gun fight at President’s hotel
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Shipwrecked sailors had to paddle 200 miles to safety
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City-bus-powered cable car scheme was epic flop (Part 2 of 2)
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Timberline could have been a gaudy skyscraper (Part 1 of 2)
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Outlaw Bill Miner’s first train robbery was a fiasco
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Taming of the Rascal: Chambreau’s redemption (Part 2 of 2)
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A crooked gambler’s-eye view of frontier Oregon (Part 1 of 2)
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Was suspicious death in ‘boneyard’ really murder?
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'Mother of Oregon History' earned praise, but little money (Part 2 of 2)
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Legendary Oregon author started with poetry, pulps (Part 1 of 2)
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Supreme Court: Slavery is legal, but only for sailors
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Lafe Pence’s crazy plan: Wash mountain into lake
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Oregon's Modern Prometheus: The forced-sterilization advocate (Part 3 of a 3-par...
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Oregon's Modern Prometheus: The Pioneer 'Lady Doctor'(part 2 of a 3-part series...
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Pioneer ‘lady doctor’ was Oregon's 'Modern Prometheus': Part 1 of 3-part series...
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How the War of 1812 changed Oregon's fate (Part 2 of 2)
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How Oregon almost became part of Canada once, eh? (Part 1 of 2)
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Vigilantes overreached with murder of ‘rustler’
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Bold bandits robbed train 3 miles from Roseburg
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Cow Creek train robbers were liberal with the dynamite
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Oregon crooks have always loved their dynamite
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How to rob trains with dynamite: Tips from a pro
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‘Prepaid shanghaiing’ plot went off the rails — fatally
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Old Oregon loggers, millworkers were tough characters
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When the Confederate flag flew over Oregon soil
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Lava Lake murders still officially unsolved, but ...
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Missing trapper’s mom suspected foul play
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Lawyer schemed to steal land by shanghaiing its owner
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'Oregon's Native Stepson' Hoover saved millions from starving to death
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Lonely Newburg orphan grew up to be President
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Mayor’s wife gave him a real election-day surprise
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Skunk’s pelt would be best admired from far away
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‘12 Angry Men’ couldn’t have happened in Oregon
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The life and death of a P-town gangster and moll
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Hank Vaughan, Oregon’s legendary outlaw: Part 3
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Hank Vaughan, Oregon’s legendary outlaw: Part 2
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Hank Vaughan, Oregon’s legendary outlaw: Part 1
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Machine-made ice cream cones invented in P-town
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