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Paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Bad Ideas and Horrible People of Old Oregon: Offbeat Oregon History Volume III. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 468 pages. 6.14x1.19x9.21 inches. In Stock.

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Shanghaiers . weird cults . dumb criminals and clumsy power grabbers .Since 2008 the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column has entertained and informed Oregonians with the weirdest, quirkiest, funniest, and most outrageous true stories in the surprisingly long history of their young state.Now, for the first time, those stories have been collected together, re-researched, augmented with freshly discovered information, and presented to readers in book form!This is Volume 3, in which you'll find a collection of the worst ideas ever tried - ideas like . using dynamite to get rid of a beached whale . leaving a wife and family to start a 'free love health cult' in Honduras . making a cable tram service out of logging parts and a couple of city buses . passing a law stripping brides of their citizenship at the altar . selling milk out of the same buckets you use to slop the hogs . try to take a skunk pelt using your bare hands . build a sternweel riverboat powered by cows . build a monument at the county courthouse honoring a mass murderer . and 37 more!You'll also find some of the most certifiably horrible characters in any state, ranging from 'lovably horrible' characters like Old Joe Huddlestun, the grumpy neighbor who blew up his local schoolhouse with dynamite because the kids were too loud at recess, to seriously awful characters like ex-Governor Charles Martin, who, as an Army general after World War I, supervised the deliberate and systematic breaking of the spirit of an entire divisional cohort of returning war heroes.Not to mention . Luther Powell, Oregon's top leader of the multi-level marketing version of the Ku Klux Klan . Greenberry Smith, the pioneer who stole his neighbor's land from his wife and kids after he died . the DeAutremont Brothers, history's most incompetent but deadly train robbers . 'Bud' Thompson, prickly Southern newspaper editor, who escalated a feud with another paper to a gunfight . L.G. Carpenter, the shyster lawyer who tried to steal a neighbor's land by having him shanghaied . Larry Sullivan, godfather of Portland shanghaiers and later mining-stock swindler . 'Ma Anand' Sheela Silverman, architect of the biggest domestic biological-warfare attack in U.S. history .You'll find a total of 62 of them in this 468-page book, along with more than 100 vintage photographs, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of art.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 428 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.07 inches. This item is printed on demand.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Skim Blood and Savage VerseWords damage more than just feelings as Carrington hunts feral books menacing the city.When a ferocious book attacks Carrington at his own birthday party, he believes it's an isolated incident. But similar books soon pop up all over town, menacing innocent people with harsh bits of poetry and blank verse that deliver damaging physical blows. It's a frustrating case with too many variables and not enough answers, and the stakes go up with each attack.With the help of his misfit squad mates at the 77th and the public library's Rare Books Department, the missing pieces decrease but not Carrington's vexations. His commanding officer rakes him over the coals at the beginning of every shift. His police partner has lost patience with what she sees as his delusional relationship choices and his inability to pick the right man in a vast field of two. City Hall demands that the books be stopped immediately. It's enough to put a nutritionally challenged vampire off his skim blood.Feral Dust BunniesAn orphaned kitten may be the only witness to romance and the impossible.Officer Alex Wolf responds to a lot of 'paranormal' calls that aren't. Exotic pet birds aren't monsters and unusual dog breeds aren't aliens. It's a good thing he likes the Animal Control officers, but he both yearns for and dreads those calls where he runs into ACO Jason Shen. Jason's scent is so delicious that Wolf has a difficult time humaning around him.Animal Control calls take a disturbing turn, though, when Wolf and his lizard-man partner, Krisk, discover the impossibly mummified bodies of rats and an unfortunate mother cat. The rescue of the cat's sole surviving kitten not only gives Wolf more time with Jason, which is both perplexing and wonderful, but also leads to dangerous discoveries. Something inconceivable stalks the city and its officers of the law. Wolf has to figure out what it is before it can attack and drain the life from the people and the kitten he loves.…