Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Author: www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com) Language: English Episodes: 184
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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 https://offbeatoregon.com.
Episodes
City-bus-powered cable car scheme was epic flop (Part 2 of 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:08
IF THE IDEA of cable car service to Timberline Lodge strikes you as a not particularly bad one, you’re not alone. Over the years since the Wyler group proposed the glass-and-steel mountaintop skyscraper, several proposal…
Timberline could have been a gaudy skyscraper (Part 1 of 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:29
HIGH UP ON the side of Mount Hood, Timberline Lodge has over the years become an Oregon icon. Its rustic, WPA-financed design and construction strike most visitors as a good fit for the state’s general reputation for woo…
Outlaw Bill Miner’s first train robbery was a fiasco [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:24
Fresh from a 20-year stretch in the pen, the famous stagecoach robber known as 'The Gray Fox' found the world had changed and he would now have to learn to rob trains instead. His learning curve started in Portland and e…
Taming of the Rascal: Chambreau’s redemption (Part 2 of 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 12:30
After blowing his chance at a prosperous, respectable life in the Tygh Valley, the gambler and liquor man roared through frontier life as a keeper of rowdy saloons and bawdy joints before a Temperance crusader changed hi…
A crooked gambler’s-eye view of frontier Oregon (Part 1 of 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:36
French-Canadian gambler started out as one of the most scurrilous rascals in the state, then reformed his ways and became one of its most earnest and effective reformers. This is the story of his early years. Part 1 of a…
Was suspicious death in ‘boneyard’ really murder? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:20
The coroner ruled Thomas McMahon's death an accident, and everyone moved on. But the testimony of witness Eliza “Boneyard Mary” Bunets was suspicious and contradictory. Could she have gotten away with murder? (Portland,…
Legendary Oregon author started with poetry, pulps (Part 1 of 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:51
Frances Fuller Victor became the founding mother of all Oregon history, and one of its most important writers of all time. By the time she arrived in the Beaver State, she was already a well-known writer. (St. Helens, Co…
Supreme Court: Slavery is legal, but only for sailors [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:50
In May of 1895, on the old San Francisco waterfront, four sailors signed onto the four-masted barkentine Arago for a voyage to Valparaiso, Chile (“and thence to such other foreign ports as the master might direct, and th…
Lafe Pence’s crazy plan: Wash mountain into lake [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:00
He might have accomplished it, too, but he lost friends when he tried to claim water rights to Bull Run, and when his primary investors went bankrupt in a bank panic, he was forced to give up the scheme and leave town. (…

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