Most images of an Old West saloon are barroom brawls and gunfire, with scantily clad “soiled doves” hanging around. Not according to archeologist and historian Homer Thiel, who has extensively ...

It was the American Frontier, known also as the “Old West,” or the “Wild West” – a place that encompassed the folklore, geography and culture associated with the wave of American expansion in mainland ...

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The poker game was fixed — that’s the story anyway. An out-of-work miner got “caught gambling crooked,” so the dealer pulled a pistol and emptied six bullets into the man, so says the 1915 coroner’s ...

One of the rooms of the Working Girls Hotel, owned and operated by Pendleton Underground Tours. The rooms were once used as a brothel. All have 18-foot ceilings. Once a month, Pendleton’s historic ...

Long before neon signs and mixology menus, Western saloons were the social engine of frontier towns. Miners, ranchers, and outlaws crowded shoulder-to-shoulder for cheap whiskey, dusty poker tables, ...

For the first time in a long time, visitors can sidle up to the bar, throw back a shot of whiskey, and maybe even watch a gunfight break out in Shaniko. Yes, Oregon’s most famous ghost town now has an ...

Once a month, Pendleton’s historic 1800s Shamrock Card Room comes to life as a real bar, where drinks are served by corset-wearing saloon girls and bow-tied bartenders. The bar, which closes at a ...