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S.. The Gold in "Them Thar Hills"
S.. The Gold in "Them Thar Hills" of Eugene Glender — printed pp. 96–97 — recorded January 6, 1990 at Tampico area, Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Zybach, Bob and Janet Meranda 1994. Eugene Glender. Growing Up on a Tampico Family Farm, Benton County, Oregon: 1910-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #09. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 155 pp.
p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.
Provenance
- Narrator
- Eugene Glender
- Recorded
- January 6, 1990 · Tampico area, Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Bob Zybach, Jan Meranda
- Printed pages
- pp. 96–97
- Original
- http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/09_Glender/Zybach-Meranda_1994.pdf
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Eugene Glender: Yeah, there were several people I used to know, but I can't ... Morss [John and
Eugene Glender: Anna] used to live out there, one of them I know. The Lefevers were ones that used to live ... just the first one down there on the right after you hit the highway [Hwy. 991. Off on the left was can't think of their name now.
Bob Zybach: How about out toward Sulphur Springs, did you know anybody that lived around Sulphur Springs?
Eugene Glender: Can't remember them now.
Bob Zybach: Did you know anybody that lived out beyond Smith's?
Eugene Glender: No, that's clear out of my country there.
Bob Zybach: Okay I think we 'ye covered now
Eugene Glender: The only one I knew out in that area was Blasch.
Bob Zybach: Blasch, okay. I think we've covered everybody then. Can you think of anybody else out
Eugene Glender: No.
Bob Zybach: Well.
S. The Gold in "Them Thar Hills"
Eugene Glender: My dad doesn't even know where it was or ... never heard nothing then.
Bob Zybach: Gold mine up there by
Eugene Glender: Up by Sulphur Springs, they used to ... some of the old timers there ... my dad used to say he used to go up there.
Bob Zybach: Do you know anything about a haunted ... the red house being haunted?
Eugene Glender: No.
Bob Zybach: Do you know anything about story of a boot filled with gold in Calloway Creek?
Eugene Glender: Well, I've heard of a some thing about a boot that was supposed to be buried ... full of gold someplace and they don't know where.
Bob Zybach: Where did you hear that?
Eugene Glender: I don't know, I've heard that years and years ago, already. They didn't know if it was buried here or where it was but ... there's supposed to be a boot full of gold buried someplace.
Bob Zybach: So you've heard that story?
Eugene Glender: Yeah.
Bob Zybach: Good, but you don't know where?
Eugene Glender: No idea, if I knew where it was, I'd go dig it up.
Bob Zybach: How about the gold mine, do you hear anything more about that, just up by Sulphur Springs?
Eugene Glender: I couldn't even find anybody that even really knew about it. I think my dad said [Tape ended. Gene's father claimed to have seen a gold panning/mining operation near Sulphur Springs. The location of the boot was unknownsee Appendix A. An early pioneer along Calloway Creek was also rumored to have buried an amount of gold near his cabin that was never recovered.]
Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- Zybach, Bob and Janet Meranda 1994. Eugene Glender. Growing Up on a Tampico Family Farm, Benton County, Oregon: 1910-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #09. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 155 pp.
- This page
- Glender 1994. S.. The Gold in "Them Thar Hills", pp. 96–97. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m09-glender/s-the-gold-in-them-thar-hills/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Glender 1994, p. 96 — Monograph #09:96
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