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Offbeat Oregon History podcast

www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)

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 and Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a couple 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. From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper

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00:11:54

Old Baptist circuit rider remembers preaching in a...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/30

WPA writer William C. Haight's oral history interview with Rev. W.C. Driver, talking about his early life as a Baptist circuit preacher and the railroad chapel car — a Pullman coach kitted out as a church — that he was assigned to for 12 years. He and his wife lived in the car, and various trains would pull it from town to town. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001938/ )

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00:10:52

Lost Soldiers’ Mine could be worth $400 a bucket

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/27

According to legend, six soldiers scouting a road stumbled across a fabulously rich ledge of gold-threaded quartz. Is it real? Is it still out there somewhere? Well, maybe ... (Cow Creek, Douglas County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/21-12.lost-soldiers-mine-coquille-604.html)

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00:10:35

Train robbery turned into onboard gunfight with cop

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/26

These three desperados couldn't seem to catch a break. First they robbed the wrong train; then it turned out to contain a dangerously competent lawman behind a big six-shooter; and finally, someone stole their getaway car. (Meacham, Umatilla County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1309c-meadors-gang-train-robbery.html)

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00:09:10

The Valsetz Star and its famous 9-year-old editor

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/25

Fourth-grader Dorothy Anne Hobson decided her tiny timber town needed a newspaper, so she launched the Valsetz Star. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover and Shirley Temple were among her subscribers. (Valsetz, Polk County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1309a-valsetz-star-and-dorothy-hobson.html)

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00:10:38

Man hailed as a hero for murdering his sister’s ex

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/24

UNWRITTEN LAW FILES, Episode 1: Orlando Murray's trial had something for everyone: Sex, revenge, vigilante action, a Fallen Woman, drunkenness, hysteria, the insane asylum, and even lawyers getting in fistfights. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1508e.orlando-murray-UnLaw-354.html)

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00:13:30

Part 2: Memories of a Yamhill County pioneer and...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/23

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with the granddaughter of Yamhill County's first sheriff, and daughter of the editress of Oregon City Seminary's school newspaper, The Magnolia. This is Part 2 of 2, comprising primarily a reading of excerpts from The Magnolia. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001980/ )

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00:11:39

Portuguese treasure story unlikely, but possible

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/20

Stories about buried treasure are very seldom completely untrue. Many of the wildest flight of golden fantasy started out, hundreds or thousands of augmented and embellished retellings ago, as true stories. Maybe that’s why people love them so much: One gets to speculating about just how much truth has survived, and if any of that fantasy gold might just be still out there waiting to be discovered.... One particular tale from the Indians of the northern Oregon coast is especially tantalizing in that

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00:10:34

'and kissed his cold lips passionately': The...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/19

Lulu Reynolds was having a torrid affair with her music teacher. Her husband was an ex-Cavalry scout who carried a .38 in his jacket pocket. It wasn't the kind of thing that usually ends well. It didn't. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1308c-reynolds-love-triangle-kissing-the-corpse.html)

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00:07:20

Shipwreck ended Astoria’s bid to be “Nantucket of the...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/18

When the treacherous bar claimed a fully-loaded whaling ship, its owner chalked it up as a very expensive lesson learned, and gave up on its plan to hunt whales out of the Oregon seaport. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1108a1-shipwreck-ends-astorias-bid-to-be-nantucket-of-west-coast.html)

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00:09:29

Unwritten Law was like an informal ‘license to kill’...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/17

For a couple decades around the turn of the last century, if a murderer could convince a jury that his victim had been a “home-wrecker,” he could expect to be not only acquitted, but lionized as a brave and noble domestic hero. (Statewide; 1890s, 1900s, 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1508d.unwritten-law-353.html)

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00:17:03

Memories of a Yamhill County pioneer and newspaper...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/16

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with the granddaughter of Yamhill County's first sheriff, and daughter of the editress of Oregon City Seminary's school newspaper, the Magnolia. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001980/ )

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00:31:49

Lynch-mob murders started reign of the Prineville...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/15

In 1882, a land dispute escalated to violence — and then led to a lynch mob taking justice into its own hands. For two years afterward, the members of that lynch mob stayed active, forming a shadow government in the Prineville area enforced by masked riders with drawn guns and ready ropes ... and for a year or two, Prineville was the murder capital of Oregon. This is the story of how that happened ... and how the Vigilantes were defeated. (Prineville, Crook County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see

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00:11:30

Oregon’s wagon-road land swindle made headlines

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/13

A FEW YEARS after Oregon became a state, some of its leaders participated in what might actually have been the biggest non-Indian-related land-grab swindle in U.S. history. It resulted in more than 1.5 million acres of the best Oregon land — land that belonged to all Americans — getting essentially stolen by a few small gangs of well-connected thieves.It happened a few years after the Civil War. At that time, Oregon was mostly public land, or so the government claimed. But, of course, that “public

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00:12:23

1890s march on D.C. involved hijacking trains

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/12

Despite the best efforts of an overzealous federal marshal, the whole episode ended in nothing more than a stern lecture from the bench for 424 unemployed members of “Coxey's Army,” who tried to “borrow” an eastbound train. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1309b-coxeys-armys-march-on-washington.html)

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00:08:20

Life of Sacagawea’s mountain-man son a tantalizing...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/11

Jean-Baptiste “Pomp” Charbonneau, the baby born to Sacagawea during the Lewis and Clark expedition, is one of the most important figures in Oregon history — but we know almost nothing of his life. (Jordan Valley, Malheur County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1107d-life-of-sacagaweas-mountain-man-son-charbonneau-tantalizing-mystery.html)

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00:10:07

Range-war feud ended with ‘murder by masked assassins’

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/10

Even today, after 135 years, the lawless era of vigilantes and rustlers and six-gun justice meted out by “Judge Lynch” is evoked by the words on an old Klamath Falls tombstone: “Murdered by Masked Assassins, June 24, 1882.” (Linkville, Klamath County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1609d.calavan-laws-feud-masked-assassins.410.html)

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00:17:03

Seth and Sophronia Lewelling, Milwaukie's original...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/09

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ledding (we are never given Mrs. L's name), talking about Mrs. Ledding's mother and stepfather: Seth and Sophronia Lewelling, respectively the most famous nurseryman in Oregon history and the proprietress of its most influential literary salon. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001981/ )

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00:10:24

Astoria is rich in legends of lost gold and treasure

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/06

THE CITY AND environs of Astoria strike most visitors as the kind of place where pirate loot might be stashed away. Certainly it seems to have struck Steven Spielberg that way, back in the early 1980s, when the legendary pirate-treasure film The Goonies was being shot. But the town may actually have come by this impression honestly. There are still a few stories about hidden treasure in and around Astoria -- not counting the silver-screen “Goon Docks” story of “One-Eyed Willy.” And who knows? One

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00:09:43

Ship, moored at dock, suddenly cracked in half

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/05

The combination of bitter cold air and relatively warm river water acted on the S.S. Schenechtady's brittle welded-steel plates like boiling water poured into a cold Mason jar. The results were similar, but on a massive scale. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1606c.schenectady-cracked-ship-396.html)

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00:10:47

Mariner’s eerie dream predicted shipmates’ deaths

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/12/04

In his spooky nightmare, first mate of the German barque Mimi saw seaweed covering all but three shipmates; the next day, all but three drowned in one of Oregon's worst-ever salvage disasters. (Near Nehalem River, Tillamook County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see URLOFWEBPAGEURLOFWEBPAGEURLOFWEBPAGE)

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