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  • City-bus-powered cable car scheme was epic flop (Part 2 of 2)

    City-bus-powered cable car scheme was epic flop (Part 2 of 2)
    2025/11/21
    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 proposals have been floated for cable-car service up the mountain. So far, only one has been built, and it was an immediate and colossal failure: The Skiway Tram project. (Government Camp, Clackamas County; 1950s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/20-08.timberline-lodge-skiway-bus.html)
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    7 分
  • Timberline could have been a gaudy skyscraper (Part 1 of 2)

    Timberline could have been a gaudy skyscraper (Part 1 of 2)
    2025/11/20
    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 woodsy civility. But had it not been for a particularly persnickety U.S. Forest Service manager, Timberline might have looked a lot different... (Timberline Lodge, Clackamas County; 1920s, 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/20-08.timberline-lodge-skiway-bus.html)
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    8 分
  • Outlaw Bill Miner’s first train robbery was a fiasco

    Outlaw Bill Miner’s first train robbery was a fiasco
    2025/11/19
    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 ended in disaster. (Troutdale, Multnomah County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1311b-bill-miner-train-robber-in-oregon.html)
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    9 分
  • Taming of the Rascal: Chambreau’s redemption (Part 2 of 2)

    Taming of the Rascal: Chambreau’s redemption (Part 2 of 2)
    2025/11/18
    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 his life. (Part 2 of 2) (Wasco, Baker, Multnomah County; 1850s, 1860s, 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1312b-edouard-chambreau-part2-portland-years.html)
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    13 分
  • A crooked gambler’s-eye view of frontier Oregon (Part 1 of 2)

    A crooked gambler’s-eye view of frontier Oregon (Part 1 of 2)
    2025/11/17
    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 2-part series. (Lower Willamette River, Clackamas County; 1840s, 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1312a-edouard-chambreau-part1-early-years.html)
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    10 分
  • Was suspicious death in ‘boneyard’ really murder?

    Was suspicious death in ‘boneyard’ really murder?
    2025/11/14
    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, Multnomah County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1311a-did-boneyard-mary-murder-thomas-mcmahon.html)
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    10 分
  • 'Mother of Oregon History' earned praise, but little money (Part 2 of 2)

    'Mother of Oregon History' earned praise, but little money (Part 2 of 2)
    2025/11/13
    Legendary author Frances Fuller Victor fell on hard times in the late 1870s. She never quit, but after she took a job writing for Hubert Howe Bancroft, he took credit for the books she wrote. (St. Helens, Columbia County; 1880s, 1890s, 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1504a.frances-fuller-victor-part2.333.html)
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    9 分
  • Legendary Oregon author started with poetry, pulps (Part 1 of 2)

    Legendary Oregon author started with poetry, pulps (Part 1 of 2)
    2025/11/12
    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, Columbia County; 1860s, 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1503e.frances-fuller-victor-part1.332.html)
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    9 分