Soap Creek Valley · Place

Columbia River

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Columbia River: 13 transcript mentions across 3 records, grouped by who was speaking.

river Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 13

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.

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Provenance

Coordinates: 46.24427, -124.05793
How they were found: coordinate from USGS GNIS; name match verified
How far to trust it: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
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

Auto Tour, 1989 written by Bob Zybach — Auto Tour, 1989 p. 6, p. 8, p. 9, p. 19
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 41
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 12, p. 14, p. 86, p. 91, p. 97, p. 154, p. 194, p. 211

In their words

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

After first surviving buffalo stampedes, disease and hostile Indian attacks, Oregon Trail pioneers were faced with the difficult and deadly Columbia River "Cascades" near The Dalles.

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 8

In the fall of 1826, while David Douglas and HBC brigade leader Alexander McLeod were blazing the first horse trail from the Columbia River to southwest Oregon, Kalapuyans were burning most of the prairies throughout the Willamette Valley.

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 9

Dated statements about this place

1826 — In the fall of 1826, while David Douglas and HBC brigade leader Alexander McLeod were blazing the first horse trail from the Columbia River to southwest Oregon, Kalapuyans were burning most of the prairies throughout the Willamette Valley. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · Before 1844

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Columbia River (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Columbia River. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/columbia-river/
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