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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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00:09:41

McCarty Gang’s story: ‘Bonanza’ meets ‘Unforgiven’

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/08

After homesteading some of the West's best cattle country, the family could have been wealthy squires like TV's Cartwright family; instead, they gave it all up for a series of outlaw enterprises that left some broke and others dead. (Harney, Wallowa, and Baker County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1307a-mccarty-gang-bonanza-gone-wrong.html)

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00:07:17

Gallon House covered bridge: Ground Zero in battle...

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2024/08/07

The historic structure, halfway between “dry” Silverton and “wet” Mt. Angel, became a meeting place for the thirsty — and a symbol of Oregon's strange relationship with good ol' Demon Rum. (Silverton, Marion County; 1910s, 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1104d-gallon-house-bridge-symbol-of-oregon-battle-over-booze.html)

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00:07:21

Crater Lake car chase ended like a Clancy novel

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/06

An East German man, running from the law in a stolen Volvo full of guns and fake IDs, apparently dropped the hand grenade he was preparing to throw at the pursuing officer and was unable to retrieve it in time. (Crater Lake, Klamath County; 1980s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1711b.merzejuskis-blows-self-up-at-crater-lake-469.html)

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00:20:00

Old-time square dance culture (WPA oral-history...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/05

WPA writer Andrew Sherbert's oral history interview with Catholic Sentinel printshop editor George Gibby in December 1938, in which Mr. Gibby fills him in on the state of frontier-community dancing and how it differed from 'modern' (as of 1938) dancing. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001953/ )

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00:09:17

Frontier swindlers: The medicine hucksters

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/02

The basic idea: Mix a few dramatic ingredients like whiskey, red pepper and opium; stick a label on it; hawk it on streetcorners as a universal medicine; and leave town before the suckers can get wise. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1870s, 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1604d.swindlers-medicine-shows-388.html)

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00:09:16

Chemawa School: An Oregon cultural treasure

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/08/01

Created to stifle Indian culture, the oldest surviving Native American boarding school has done the opposite — and it's fortunate for Oregon's cultural heritage that it has. (Salem, Marion County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1212d-chemawa-boarding-school-cultural-treasure.html)

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00:10:37

Amateur pirates’ bumbling plan didn’t work out as...

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2024/07/31

Two liquored-up Navy deserters planned to seize control of a passenger liner, drive it onto the beach and steal away into the night with three tons of gold. It's probably safe to say they didn't think their plan through very well. (Off Winchester Bay, Douglas County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1104c-amateur-pirates-bumbling-scheme-didnt-work-out.html)

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00:09:52

Was Lewis O’Neil a murderer, or did he just take the...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/30

Everyone in Ashland knew Amanda McDaniel and Lewis O'Neil were having a little affair; so, when Amanda's husband turned up murdered with O'Neil's shotgun, it seemed obvious what had happened. But ... was it? (Ashland, Jackson County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1711a.lewis-mcdaniel-murdered-but-by-whom-468.html)

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00:21:52

Early settlement in Milwaukie (WPA oral-history...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/29

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Harvey Starkweather, a garrulous old fellow who grew up surrounded by Oregon Trail pioneers in and around Milwaukie. (Part 2 of 2)(For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001988/ )

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00:09:16

How they avoided dying of dysentery on Oregon Trail

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/26

In the first half of the 1800s, mainstream medical doctors were not very trusted; travelers on the Oregon Trail relied more on herbal remedies or cold water. (1840s, 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1604c.medicine-oregon-trail-387.html)

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00:12:49

Jim Turk: shanghaiier, drunkard, millionaire

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/25

The old Portland shanghai scene's 'original gangster' was a mysterious character. Did he really inherit a huge fortune? If not, where did the money come from? Stagecoach robbery? Piracy on the high seas? Anything was possible .... (Portland, Multnomah County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1212c-jim-turk-the-shanghaiing-millionaire.html)

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00:07:31

Only sitting U.S. Senator killed in battle was from...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/24

Edward Dickinson Baker's personal connection with President Lincoln and formidable people skills made him a powerful force; had he not been killed, he might well have become president. Without his influence, Oregon would likely have sided with the South. (Offbeat Oregon History column by Finn J.D. John, 10 Apr 2011) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1104b-edward-baker-only-sitting-senator-killed-in-action.html)

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00:10:34

State’s aggressiveness cost Yachats its beach access

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/23

Eager to get started on Smelt Sands Park, the state forcibly vacated Lane County's right-of-way on its 804 Road along the beach, and beachfront property owners quickly fenced it off. It took a 10-year legal battle to fix the problem. (Yachats, Lane County; 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1710e.yachats-804-road-offbeat-oregon-origin-story-467.html)

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00:24:10

Early settlement in Milwaukie (WPA oral-history...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/22

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Harvey Starkweather, a garrulous old fellow who grew up surrounded by Oregon Trail pioneers in and around Milwaukie. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001988/ )

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00:09:17

Great Women of Oregon History, Pt. II: The ‘firsts'

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2024/07/19

Not many people know it, but Oregon had U.S. history's first female governor (in 1909), first female sworn police officer (in 1908) and first female stagecoach driver (in the 1860s). (Statewide; 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1604b.great-women-part2-386.html)

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00:09:41

Abigail Scott Duniway isn’t only great woman of...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/18

Other pioneering Oregonians worthy of having bridges and mountains named after them include attorney Mary G. Leonard, historian Frances Fuller Victor and physician Bethenia Owens-Adair. (Statewide, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s; part 1 of 2) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1604a.great-women-part1.385.html)

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00:08:58

Bungling burglars skunked in Corvallis courthouse job

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2024/07/17

Perhaps thinking the Benton County Treasurer would have treasure in his office, they blew the safe with dynamite — and were disappointed. A month later, having left pawnshop claim stubs lying around camp, they were incarcerated. (Corvallis, Benton County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1104a-bungling-burglars-skunked-in-corvallis-courthouse-job.html)

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00:09:05

Brutal ax murder could not have been more sordid

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/16

Richard Marple likely would have been acquitted for lack of hard evidence if he'd been able to keep his mouth shut. But, maybe he figured there was nothing he could do to keep folks from eventually learning his family's dark secret. (Lafayette, Yamhill County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1710d.marple-the-triple-ax-murderer-466.html)

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00:12:40

Memories of Meadowbrook, and the Molalla Indians (WPA...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/15

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Ernest P. Elliott, grandson of the man who homesteaded Meadowbrook (just northeast of Molalla). (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001983/ )

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00:17:07

Laurel Hill was Oregon Trail’s ‘final boss battle’

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/07/12

THE OREGON TRAIL has been called the world’s longest graveyard. It’s a 2,000-mile road that averages one buried body every 80 yards. Out of the 350,000 emigrants that traveled along it, one out of every 10 died along the way.There were lots of ways to kick the bucket on the Trail. Blood poisoning was a popular way to go — in those pre-antibiotic days, a minor scratch from a wagon fastener or prick from a thornbush could quickly go septic. And accidents — people getting run over by a wagon wheel,

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