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Frontier journalists settled differences with gunfight

EPISODE · Sep 3, 2025 · 9 MIN

Frontier journalists settled differences with gunfight

from Offbeat Oregon History podcast · host Finn J.D. John

The nationally notorious “Oregon Style” of newspapering involved vicious personal attacks and a take-no-prisoners style of cutting invective; but it was ink being spilled, not blood. That is, until one day in downtown Roseburg ... (Roseburg, Douglas County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1306e-bud-thompson-gunfighting-newsman.html)

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