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Offbeat Oregon History podcast

A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors a1512nd Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and ... Read more

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Ranked #1

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Schemers’ plans to exploit Multnomah Falls failed

Schemers’ plans to exploit Multnomah Falls failed

Original owners of the falls tried for years to log it, but the steamship and railroad moguls were making a lot of money... Read more

14 Aug 2023

10mins

Ranked #2

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First policewoman was a municipal Rescuer

First policewoman was a municipal Rescuer

BY THE TIME Walt Disney Productions released “The Rescuers” in 1977, the idea of a “Rescue Aid Society” dedicated to the... Read more

11 Aug 2023

21mins

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Ranked #3

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Dispute over reservation land lasted a century

Dispute over reservation land lasted a century

Warm Springs Indians struggled from 1871 to 1972 to get back a piece of land taken as a result of a survey everyone admi... Read more

10 Aug 2023

7mins

Ranked #4

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Bits of 1926 Hollywood train wreck are still in Row River

Bits of 1926 Hollywood train wreck are still in Row River

The movie was 'The General,' starring Buster Keaton; in the scene, a real locomotive is crashed through a real burning b... Read more

9 Aug 2023

5mins

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Ranked #5

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Gov. T.T. Geer is Oregon’s ‘patron saint of bike commuters’

Gov. T.T. Geer is Oregon’s ‘patron saint of bike commuters’

Hopping on an old steel one-speed and pedaling 30 miles, then mowing a half-acre of lawn with a push mower, chopping dow... Read more

8 Aug 2023

10mins

Ranked #6

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Portland home of world’s only working World War II P.T. boat

Portland home of world’s only working World War II P.T. boat

Twenty years ago, PT-658 was a weatherbeaten hulk, rotting away at a pier in San Francisco Bay. Today, it's a priceless ... Read more

7 Aug 2023

8mins

Ranked #7

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How Marie Dorion earned title ‘Oregon’s Revenant’

How Marie Dorion earned title ‘Oregon’s Revenant’

Marooned in a frozen winter wasteland after a hostile tribe attacked and killed everyone else, she kept herself and her ... Read more

4 Aug 2023

8mins

Ranked #8

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Astorian party’s decision to follow river proved fatal

Astorian party’s decision to follow river proved fatal

Charged with blazing a trail to the West Coast, the voyageurs in the party decided to paddle down a strange river, hopin... Read more

3 Aug 2023

11mins

Ranked #9

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Marie Aioe Dorion was a wilderness-survival ninja

Marie Aioe Dorion was a wilderness-survival ninja

As the Native American bride of a French-Canadian interpreter, she joined the Astorian Party on its overland voyage to O... Read more

2 Aug 2023

9mins

Ranked #10

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Did this tiny, soggy, scary road save Oregon's public beaches?

Did this tiny, soggy, scary road save Oregon's public beaches?

Until Highway 101 was built in the 1930s, the beach was Arch Cape’s only road to the outside world — a fact that was Exh... Read more

1 Aug 2023

7mins

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