Soap Creek Valley · Place

Applegate Trail

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Applegate Trail: 16 transcript mentions across 7 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 16

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

This place has not been given a coordinate. It appears here because the narrators named it; where it stood is not established.

Provenance

Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 20, p. 58, p. 70, p. 75, p. 99
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 1, p. 67
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 65, p. 67
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 42
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 108, p. 109
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 1, p. 63
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 43, p. 44

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

We had it a long time and wife says give to him, you know, also give him the book about the Applegate Trail because it don't deal with this country at all, it's all California and north.

James Hanish, #6 James Hanish , p. 65

I was tracing the Applegate Trail right through this area.

Neil Elton Vanderburg, #8 Neil Vanderburg , p. 108

Dated statements about this place

1840 — This is one of the first areas settled in Benton County, about 1840, before Applegate Trail, before the California Gold Rush, before Oregon Territory. Kevin Sherer · source · Before 1844
1846 — Morgan Savage and Tolbert Carter ... helped construct the Applegate Trail from Fort Hall in Idaho to the Willamette Valley in 1846. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · 1845–1859
1846 — Five years later, in 1846, when Jesse Applegate, Moses "Black" Harris, Levi Scott and a dozen other men were establishing the "Applegate Trail" for American pioneers, they followed the same course taken by Douglas and the Wilkes Expedition. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · 1845–1859
1846 — the Mennonites had renamed Savage Creekname for 1846 Applegate Trail Pioneer, Morgan Savageto the "South Fork" of Berry Creek because it sounded more "civilized." Zybach (editorial) · source · 1845–1859
1853 — This stop is along an 1853 stretch of the "Applegate Trail" that connected "rainy season" crossings of Berry and Soap Creeks. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · 1845–1859

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