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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‘Bucket of Blood’ saloon a relic of the shanghaing era
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Dynamite used to be a regular part of Oregon life
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Did Sir Francis Drake visit Oregon in 1579?
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Quest for legendary mine actually led to real riches
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“Bear Grylls of the 1910s” had something to prove
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Even as a boy, Erector Set inventor larger than life
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How Oregon’s own ‘anti-Grinch’ saved Christmas
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Cali Gold Rush started by failed Oregon farmer
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Lighthouse built 18 days too late for ship’s sailors
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The legendary lost Spanish gold of Neahkahnie Mountain
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Oregon was scene of first recorded Soapy Smith con
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Oregon gold-country legend: The solid-gold snuff can
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Bungled robbery-murder was solved ‘CSI’-style
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‘Last great train robbery’ was brutal, clumsy fiasco (part 1 of 2)
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Black sheep of the Union Army was Oregon’s last Civil War veteran
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Dory fisherman rescues stranded sailors — from Coast Guard boat
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The game of Faro was a crooked gambler’s dream
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Pirate, jailbird, hustler, tycoon: 'Colonel' T. Edgenton Hogg
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Giant mud puddles were once Lake Chewacan, a great inland sea
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The rise and fall of ‘king of Portland saloonkeepers’
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Goofy, Bluto, Bozo were all Oregon’s ‘Pinto’ Colvig
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Frontier journalists settled differences with gunfight
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“Voice of Looney Toons” was the terror of his Portland high school
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The Port Orford Meteorite: Was it all a big hoax?
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Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: Minor political hack became opium king of West Coas...
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Missing gold suggests something sinister in shipwreck mystery
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“Shorty” Davis may be Oregon’s oldest cold case
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Filming of “worst Western ever” was a real spectacle
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Boys’ summertime shipwreck adventure couldn’t happen today
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First Ashland Shakespeare Festival kayoed competing boxing event
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Oregon's ‘King of moonshiners’ was an old-time music legend
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What really happened to DB Cooper? Pick a theory
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D.B. Cooper deplanes like a boss: Getting away with the loot
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D.B. Cooper deplanes: Getting away with the loot
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D.B. Cooper skyjacking legend started at PDX
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Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: Hathaway Jones, Self-declared 'damnedest liar' in O...
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For one Oregon slave, the Civil War didn’t end bondage
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Oregon cold snaps seem mild, but one sank a ship
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Former robber became vice president of bank he once robbed
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Ka-Ton-Ka patent remedy was Oregon’s own, sort of
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Dry town’s sting on secret drugstore pub went badly
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Oregon’s second largest city built in six months
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Mt. Hood: so mellow, you forget it’s a real volcano
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Did Oregon miss a chance to catch the Zodiac Killer?
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A town’s friendship with its wartime attacker
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Nobuo Fujita, the flying Samurai who attacked Oregon
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Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: Silverton's nationally-famous Bobbie the Wonder Dog
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Colorful sea-captain was like an 1800s Han Solo
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