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‘Desperado’ became P-town’s first police chief

James Lappeus came to Portland from the gold fields of California, where he was a gambler, saloonkeeper and general mining-town rowdy. His career as a cop was dogged by rumors he'd offered to spring a murderer for a $1,000 bribe. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1850s, 1860s, 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1207a-james-lappeus-crooked-gambler-police-chief-in-portland.html)

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  After logger’s murder, bordello madam vanished

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  Famous dance hall hosted Berry, Cash, many more

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  The notorious Tusko led a colorful and tragic life

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  Lotus Isle, Oregon’s most surreal amusement park

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  Pirates were defeated in Yaquina Bay Oyster Wars

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  NASA’s ‘Moon Trees’ have roots in Oregon forest fire

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  ‘Rajneesh’ or ‘Osho’? In Oregon, his name is mud (Part 4 of 4)

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  Rajneeshees’ doom sealed by scheme to seize power (Part 3 of 4)

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  Rajneeshees got on well with neighbors ... at first (Part 2 of 4)

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  Rajneeshpuram: Oregon’s most (in)famous ashram (Part 1 of 4)

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  Opium culture a forgotten part of urban underworld

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  The ex-Oregonian who got the U.S. into World War II: Yosuke Matsuoka (#6 o…