Portland's Lost Waterfront - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portland's Lost Waterfront write by Barney Blalock. This book was released on 2012-11-06. Portland's Lost Waterfront available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, Portland, Oregon, is a city of majestic bridges crisscrossing the deep swath of the Willamette River. A century ago, riverboat pilots would have witnessed a flurry of stevedores and longshoremen hurrying along the wharves. Situated as the terminus of sea lanes and railroads, with easy access to the wheat fields, sawmills and dairies of the Willamette Valley, Portland quickly became a rich and powerful seaport. As the city changed, so too did the role of the sailor--once bartered by shanghai masters, later elevated to well-paid and respected mariner. Drawing on primary source material, previously unpublished photographs and thirty-three years of waterfront work, local author Barney Blalock recalls the city's vanished waterfront in these tales of sea dogs, salty days and the river's tides.
Portland's Lost Waterfront
Portland's Lost Waterfront - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portland's Lost Waterfront write by Barney Blalock. This book was released on 2012. Portland's Lost Waterfront available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, Portland, Oregon, is a city of majestic bridges crisscrossing the deep swath of the Willamette River. A century ago, riverboat pilots would have witnessed a flurry of stevedores and longshoremen hurrying along the wharves. Situated as the terminus of sea lanes and railroads, with easy access to the wheat fields, sawmills and dairies of the Willamette Valley, Portland quickly became a rich and powerful seaport. As the city changed, so too did the role of the sailor--once bartered by shanghai masters, later elevated to well-paid and respected mariner. Drawing on primary source material, previously unpublished photographs and thirty-three years of waterfront work, local author Barney Blalock recalls the city's vanished waterfront in these tales of sea dogs, salty days and the river's tides.
The Oregon Shanghaiers: Columbia River Crimping from Astoria to Portland
The Oregon Shanghaiers: Columbia River Crimping from Astoria to Portland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oregon Shanghaiers: Columbia River Crimping from Astoria to Portland write by Barney Blalock. This book was released on 2014-04-08. The Oregon Shanghaiers: Columbia River Crimping from Astoria to Portland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the hardscrabble early days of Portland's seaport, "shanghaiing" or "crimping" ran rampant. The proprietors of crooked saloons and sailors' boardinghouses coerced unwitting patrons to work on commercial ships. Shanghaiers like James Turk, Bunko Kelley and Billy Smith unashamedly forced men into service and stole the wages of their victims. By the 1890s, these shanghaiers had become powerful enough to influence the politics of Astoria and Portland, charging sea captains outrageous fees for unskilled laborers and shaping maritime trade around a merciless black market. For nearly a century, the exploits of these notorious crimpers have existed mainly in lore. Now historian Barney Blalock offers a lively and meticulously researched account of these colorful and corrupt men, revealing an authentic account of Oregon's malicious maritime legends.
Wicked Portland
Wicked Portland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wicked Portland write by Finn J.D. John. This book was released on 2012. Wicked Portland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a combination rough-and-ready logging camp and gritty, hard-punching deep-water port town," and as a young city (established in the late 1840s) it developed an international reputation for lawlessness and violence. In the early 1900s, the British and French governments filed formal complaints about Portland to the US state department, and Congressional testimony from the time cites Portland as the worst place in the world for crimping. Today, tours of the alleged Shanghai Tunnels offer Portland visitors a taste of that seedy past."
Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon
Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon write by JD Chandler. This book was released on 2013-03-19. Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A shocking true chronicle of some of Portland, Oregon’s most infamous criminal cases—from its wild roots as a frontier town to post-war 20th century. Here are some of the most horrifying crimes that made headlines and shook Portland, Oregon. The brutal Ardenwald axe murders. The retribution killings by Chinatown tongs. The fiendish acts of the Dark Strangler. In this compelling account, author JD Chandler chronicles the coverups, false confessions, miscarriages of justice, and the investigative twists of Portland’s sordid past. From the untimely end of the Black Mackintosh Bandit to the convoluted hunt for the Milwaukie Monster, Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon is a true crime account that acknowledges the officers who sought justice and remembers the victims whose lives were claimed by violence—all while providing important historical context.
