An hour before high tide, the Oregon Coast near Cape Perpetua seems peaceful and innocuous. As the minutes go by and the Pacific Ocean climbs closer to the shore, a 20-foot-deep sinkhole, known asThor's Well, begins to swallow the seawater. Not long after, the water overflows and start...
In the 1840s the city was well on its way to becoming an important meatpacking center but was eclipsed by Omaha, Nebraska, and Kansas City when transcontinental railroads bypassed it. It has survived as one of the great livestock and grain markets of the central west and is the trade center...