Daniel Magone had a plan. He was going to dig up the corpse of the most important and prominent businessman... more

Nothing like being right on the spot, or a few days' journey away, when the biggest gold strike in world... more

Ever wonder how so much timberland ended up owned by giant out-of-state companies like Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific? A lot of... more

The story of William Dunbar, Nat Blum, and the Merchants Steamship Company is one of the weirdest. Most drug smugglers... more

In the early 1890s, a politically well-connected drug smuggler in tiny, faraway Portland took a young Japanese boy into his... more

THE “GOLDEN AGE of Outlaws” had a good run — almost 40 years. It kicked off just after the Civil... more

The fix was in -- all the legislators who needed to be bribed had been paid off -- so John... more

Bunco Kelley was out of prison, Mysterious Billy Smith was at loose ends, and Jumbo Riley was looking for something... more

Oregon's Sailors' Boardinghouse Commission seemed completely uninterested in any enforcement activity other than ordering Larry Sullivan's competitors to leave the... more

After Jim Turk's death, former pro prizefighter Larry Sullivan virtually owned the shanghaiing business in Portland ... but there was... more