BLOOD CITY
Bonus Material
Below are maps, images and links to information I used in writing Blood City.
The Columbia River Bar and surrounding coastal areas is known as the Graveyard of the Pacific
Portland, Oregon late 1800s/early 1900s.
Interesting reading about Portland history.
Bunko Kelly
Employment document sighed by sailors to work on a ship . . .or signed by the crimp who shanghaied him.
Portland waterfront. The docks had multiple levels for loading to accommodate seasonal changes in the height of the Willamette River.
Read about shanghaiing and the "bad old days" of Portland in:
Wicked Portland.
The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Town.
By Finn J. D. John
Read about the Portland Shanghai Tunnels.
Liberty ships under construction at Kaiser Ship Yards during WWII Portland, Oregon.
Read about the Kaiser shipyards.
Vanport, Oregon.
Read about Vanport.
Read about the black history in Portland, Oregon.