As young men, Michael Hanley and his brother, John, shared a business shipping goods down the Ohio River to New Orleans. With the discovery of gold in 1849, they decided to meet in New Orleans, then go West together to make a fortune. However, the two brothers never met and never spoke again. Each told a slightly different story about the rift.

Railroad history in Southern Oregon is often thought to have had its beginnings in the 1880s, but the groundwork began nearly 20 years earlier.

James Ivory saw his first movie when he was five at a theater in Klamath Falls, Ore. Eighty-four years later, he has become the oldest person ever to receive an Oscar at the Academy Awards.

A widower from Maine, Lou Martin, came to the Rogue River Canyon in the late 1920s and lived alone until he died more than 50 years later. Martin’s wife and baby had died in the flu epidemic in Maine.

Southern Oregon gold miners often gathered after work in saloons to drink and gamble. Risk takers by nature, the miners couldn’t resist trying to beat the odds.

For nearly a century, Charlie Jensen was known as “Mr. Music” on the Southern Oregon Coast.

On February 27, 1940, more than two inches of rain fell in six hours in Redding, Calif., the storm contributing to seasonal rainfall of more than 42 inches, about twice the normal amount.

Francis Kennedy Hamilton watered circus elephants as a boy and edited Ernest Hemingway’s writing as an adult.

The Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon is well known for its pears, but it also used to produce delicious catsup.

A dispatch about the siege of Skull Bar in 1855 referred to rare Chinese participation in the Rogue River Indian Wars.