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Dark Rose
Organized Crime and Corruption in Portland
In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portland’s law enforcement institutions. The biggest scandal involved Teamsters officials and the city’s lucrative prostitution,...
ISBN: 9780295991115
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Portland and the Lewis and Clark Exposition
The Great Extravaganza details the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905 from its planning stage, through the heady days of the fair, and into the decade of growth and prosperity that followed. Abbott captures the...
ISBN: 9780875952857
more detailsTwo Centuries of Lewis and Clark
Reflections on the Voyage of Discovery
The landscape encountered by the Corps of Discovery during their multi-year, cross- country trek to the Pacific was dramatically different from the one that greeted visitors attending Portland’s Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in 1905...
ISBN: 9780875952888
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