Welcome To Oregon: An Oregon Historical Variety Show

Welcome to the frontier friend! On this episode lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford brings you into the world of the wild west, with stories of Black Bart, Tom McCarty, a train heist gone bad and so much more!

Sources:

https://oregontrailcenter.org/indians

https://www.cracked.com/article_20372_5-ridiculous-myths-everyone-believes-about-wild-west.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquero#Arrival_in_the_Americas

https://www.ok-corral.com/pages/history.shtml

https://www.reddit.com/r/WildWestPics/comments/10ncnl3/when_did_the_wild_west_end/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marysville_Cemetery

https://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/the-mystery-of-black-bart-lives-on/article_7c2c6f22-b3f5-11ed-aecf-9fb5354428d0.html

https://www.calaverashistory.org/black-bart

https://www.mckenzieriverreflectionsnewspaper.com/story/2014/02/09/history/black-bart-liked-to-rob-oregon-stages/1695.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw)

https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/news-article-stage-robbery/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mccarty-gang/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Warner

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/deautremont-brothers-train-hold-up-at-tunnel-13/#:~:text=The%20most%20famous%20train%20holdup,payout%2C%20and%20four%20men%20dead.

Volcanoes are truly wonders of the natural world that we are privileged to have as part of our state, and on this episode lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you on a tour of their explosive histories. Stories include Crater Lake, Newberry Volcano, and more!

Sources:

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/can-lakes-near-volcanoes-become-acidic-enough-be-dangerous-people-and-animals#:~:text=Yes.,pH%20of%201.9%20in%201992.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/frankenstein-published

https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/mount-tambora-and-year-without-summer

https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/mount-tambora-and-year-without-summer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Drais

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora#Fatalities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama#Human_history

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/mt_mazama/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Skene_Ogden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_C._Waters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hood#Indigenous_names

https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-hood/science/future-eruptions-mount-hood-oregon#:~:text=A%20significant%20eruption%20of%20Mount,damage%20to%20infrastructure%20and%20buildings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens#General

https://www.historylink.org/File/22801#:~:text=Crusty%20old%20Harry%20Truman%20was,urgent%20warnings%20of%20imminent%20disaster.

You ever get that feeling when you stay at a hotel, you know the one where you feel like you're being watched? Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you through the history of haunted hotels, including stories about Hot Lake Hotel, Haceta Head, The Benson and so much more!

Sources:

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/hh-holmes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel

https://www.americanghostwalks.com/articles/king-castle-for-a-haunted-land-chicago-s-murder-ca#:~:text=Other%20employees%20have%20seen%20the,Castle%22%20before%20its%201938%20demolition.

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/oregon/haunted-wolf-creek-inn-or/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London#Death

https://accessgenealogy.com/oregon/phy-wm-t-dr-obituary.htm

https://hotlakelodge.com/about/

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/baldwin_maud_1878_1926_/

https://www.columbian.com/news/2017/nov/02/rue-the-resident-ghost-haunts-heceta-head-house/

https://oldwheelerhotel.com/history/

https://www.oregonhumanities.org/rll/beyond-the-margins/room-5/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Benson

https://www.kgw.com/article/life/style/lets-get-out-there/shaniko-oregon-ghost-town/283-d330ef3b-86f9-4026-a3d4-2aa500c3f6a5#:~:text=The%20town's%20hotel%20is%20rumored,4%2Dyear%2Dold%20spirit.&text=Wool%20buyers%20from%20across%20the,to%20Shaniko%20in%20its%20heyday.

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/benson_hotel/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Mitchell#Death

Grab your tickets and take a seat as lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you on a journey through the history of Oregon's railroads! Featuring stories about the first train in history, famed politician and founder of Springfield Byron Pengra, Henry Villard who connected Oregon with the rest of the nation, and infamous stage coach king Benjamin Holladay.

Sources:

https://oregoncoastscenic.org/about/

https://thegoodnewshub.com/history/first-train-journey-ever-on-21st-february-1804/

https://www.up.com/customers/track-record/tr041823-steam-to-green-evolution-of-the-locomotive.htm#:~:text=On%20February%2021%2C%201804%2C%20British,including%20wood%2C%20coal%20and%20oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephenson

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/corporate-monopolies/development_rr.html#:~:text=The%20first%20regular%20carrier%20of,modern%20railroad%20industry%20was%20born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_railway_history#:~:text=1804%20%E2%80%93%20First%20steam%20locomotive%20railway,it%20successfully%20hauled%2025%20tons.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38747010/bynon-johns-pengra

https://editthis.info/Lane_Co_Oregon/Pengra,_Byron_J.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pengra-3

https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.oregon.counties.lane/1262

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collis_Potter_Huntington

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/villard_henry_1835_1900_/

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/portland_hotel/

https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/ben-holladay-1819-1887/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Holladay#:~:text=Benjamin%20 Holladay%20

Ever wonder if the magic of Disney ever graced Oregon in an impactful way? join lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford to discover how much Walt Disney, his family and his works by other people influenced the state.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney#Reputation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger#Nazi_involvement

https://d23.com/a-to-z/westward-ho-the-wagons-film/#:~:text=Filmed%20in%20CinemaScope%20on%20location,Ranch%20at%20Thousand%20Oaks%2C%20California.

https://disneyadulting.com/disney-connection-portland-oregon/#:~:text=You%20can%20update%20preferences%20or,to%20move%20there%20in%201937.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35723019/theodore_warren_beecher

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55885573/theodore_charles_beecher

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55885489/ruth_flora_beecher

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/blanc_mel/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc#Voice_work_for_Hanna-Barbera_and_others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Duck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks#

https://www.vulture.com/2013/12/walt-disney-anti-semitism-racism-sexism-frozen-head.html

Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you on a roller coaster ride through the history of Oregon's amusement parks! Summer festivities are here and the heat is in full swing, and what better way to enjoy fun in the sun than an amusement park? Learning it's history perhaps?

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair

https://www.funcrewusa.com/resources/carnival-vs-fair-vs-festival/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_garden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusement_park

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138306757/john-francis-cordray

https://www.newspapers.com/image/80186992/?clipping_id=101482315&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjgwMTg2OTkyLCJpYXQiOjE3MTk5ODI5MjgsImV4cCI6MTcyMDA2OTMyOH0.Oi-6Z1rC_JM6ThhMW8UzuvKoNHBQHk-bfxaBpWWV4yA

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40308075/robert-edward-bollinger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaks_Amusement_Park

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/pixieland/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantzen_Beach_Amusement_Park

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/jantzen/

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/enchanted-forest/

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/obituaries/pore0607434

https://www.oakspark.com/about-us#:~:text=Oaks%20Park%20has%20been%20%22where,area's%20emerging%20interurban%20transportation%20system.

https://www.pdxmonthly.com/travel-and-outdoors/2023/04/pixieland-oregon-amusement-park-history-lincoln-city

It's our 1 year anniversary! As a treat and also to shamelessly round ourselves up to 30, we did a bonus episode talking about Oregon's state symbols as well as some history of symbolism itself!

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

https://leg.wa.gov/Symbols/pages/default.aspx#:~:text=State%20Symbols&text=Symbols%20are%20often%20adopted%20after,a%20request%20for%20a%20bill.

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/oregon_state_symbols/

Join lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford and journey back to where it all began, the story of one of the most famous events in American history, the Oregon Trail!

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_migration#:~:text=Approximately%201%2C800%20of%20the%20world's,kilometres%20south%20for%20the%20winter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_run

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Price_Hunt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonquin_(1807_ship)#Destruction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stuart_(explorer)

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/stuart_robert/#:~:text=Robert%20Stuart%20made%20a%20significant,Louis%20in%201812.

https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/major-events/war-of-1812-overview/#:~:text=In%20Britain's%20effort%20to%20control,Britain%20on%20June%2018%2C%201812.

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/smith_jedediah/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Farnham

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-thousand-pioneers-head-west-on-the-oregon-trail

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/mcloughlin_john/

https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/learn_interp_nhotic_quotes.pdf

Join lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford as he dives into one of the darkest chapters of human history, and the role Oregonians played in World War II.

Sources:

John Bruning's book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_al-Rammah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun#:~:text=The%20first%20devices%20identified%20as,Eurasia%20during%20the%2014th%20century.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/biological-weapon/Biological-weapons-in-history

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/geneva_conventions_and_their_additional_protocols#:~:text=The%20Geneva%20Conventions%20and%20their,become%20victims%20of%20armed%20conflicts.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196674/aaf-prisoners-of-the-germans/#:~:text=Germany%20was%20a%20signatory%20of,German%20World%20War%20II%20camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_submarine_I-25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Connecticut_(1938)

https://mynorthwest.com/668492/mysteries-remain-75-years-after-japanese-attack-on-columbia-river/

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1961/june/i-bombed-usa

https://www.brookings.or.us/291/Fujita-Sword#:~:text=Fifty%20years%20after%20the%20bombing,for%20his%20continued%20peace%20efforts.

https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww2/Pages/threats-bombs.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Fujita

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1942/halsey-doolittle-raid.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_E._Mitchell

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197901890/betty-janet-mitchell

https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt00000001UPaEAM

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/fort_stevens/#:~:text=Fort%20Stevens%20saw%20no%20combat%20during%20World,18th%20Coast%20Artillery%20Regiment%2C%20augmented%20by%20the

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/balloon_bombs/

Join lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford through the woods of Oregon to hear about the history of the logging industry and the tales of the trees they fell.

Sources:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/zambia-worlds-oldest-wooden-structure-2367672#:~:text=Archaeologists%20working%20in%20Zambia%20have,an%20estimated%20476%2C000%20years%20ago.

Centuries-old ship at ground zero likely from Philly | CNN

https://palletenterprise.com/view_article/4985/Timber-Over-Time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing_Young

https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/trademarks/Pages/lumber.aspx#:~:text=Lumbering%20began%20in%20the%20Oregon,on%20Chehalem%20Creek%20in%201837.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_flume

https://www.history.co.uk/shows/ax-men/articles/history-of-logging#:~:text=Loggers%20relied%20on%20axes%2C%20handsaws,remote%20camps%20near%20their%20worksites.

http://www.pdxhistory.com/html/railroads.html#:~:text=Railroad%20History%20in%20Oregon%20began,Portland%20south%20for%2020%20miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Holladay

https://www.skagitcounty.net/Departments/HistoricalSociety/GeneralStore/1887loggerswages.htm

https://worldforestry.org/tracing-oregons-timber-culture/

https://worldforestry.org/world-forestry-centers-timberland-investment-conference-gets-a-new-name/

https://www.wallowa.com/news/majestic-monarch-clings-to-life-in-eagle-cap/article_e07c79be-e654-52e6-8894-f1f0180522da.html

https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/agerecords/usa/oregon/