Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town

Portland hits the news as a seedy hellhole while people enjoy bike rides, the great culinary scene, and community events. Tucked away in the NW, the city does have its own seedy history that revealed a history of vice—prostitution, gambling, opium, boozy brawls. This book reveals that past of this hybrid logging and port town. The British and French governments even filed complaints about the city to the US State Department, in the early 1900s. The book goes into the history that originally gave Portland a reputation as sin city, for fans of Portland and PNW history.