Soap Creek Valley · Person
Roy Cook
Roy Cook— narrator, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.
narratormentioned
Provenance
- Dates
- 1916 – unknown
- Work
- son of Wanda and Ernest Cook; logger / forest worker
- Where this comes from
- #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, title page, narrator profile; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, ix, contributors / front matter credit; SCARC OH 006 finding aid: interview dates and cassette counts; #7 Charlie Olson, p. 145, printed back index; #8 Neil Vanderburg, p. 98, printed back index; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 17, p. 20, p. 32, p. 33, p. 35, p. 56, p. 73, p. 10, p. 14, p. 22, p. 28, p. 29, p. 45, p. 47, p. 87, printed back index; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, Table 1 citation rule: cited as (Cook 1995), referenced as (Zybach and Sherer 1995), #12; the 1999 thesis, p. 235, p. 236, p. 237, Appendix A, Table A.1 (monograph numbers and titles) and Table A.2 (page counts)
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Home site
Plotted at Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.
The map could not load. The list below carries the same places.
Sessions
- May 15, 1990 — Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon (driving tour, stops A-J)
- 1995-08 — Roy Cook's home near Yachats, Oregon
Worked on
Where others mention them
Family named in the transcripts
Dates they give
- 1900 — Roy Cook believes that this barn was probably located in Soap Creek Valley before the turn of the century.
- 1913/1915 — He just gave us some of the records on the place from 1913, or 1915?
- 1914/1989 — Soap Creek Valley: 1914 and 1989 views east from Lewisburg Saddle. These photographs were taken 75 years apart; about the time of Roy Cook's birth, and then again shortly before the May, 1990 tour detailed on the following pages. Note the Cook house in both photos- Coffin Butte appears in the center background on the second photo. These photos first
- 1914 — They got married in 1914, I think.
- 1915 — Prior to 1915.
- 1916 — So your dad had just finished up college then.
- 1920 — That's Roy's birthday, and my second son [Richard E.
- 1920/1929 — That was in, oh, 1920, 29, long in there.
- 1922/1923 — He worked for Pacific Power and Light, only it was Northwestern Electric initially in 1922, or 1923 I think it was started up.
- 1927 — They split up about 1927.
- 1930s — Oh yeah, yeah. Bullis [Lee Buffis from Medford. Managed Mt. States Power in Medford in mid-1930s - RC], and so on down there.
- 1989-11-05 — Wanda Cook Note, November 5, 1989.
- 1990-05-15 — [Interview conducted by Bob Zybach and Kevin Sherer at the Marcks' house, May 15, 1990.]
- 1990-05-15 — Instead, her son Roy accompanied Kevin Sherer and I on a tour of the valley on May 15, 1990.
In the Series Index
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Roy Cook (person record).
- This page
- Soap Creek Valley: Roy Cook. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/people/roy-cook/
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