Soap Creek Valley · Place

Lewisburg Saddle

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Lewisburg Saddle: 44 transcript mentions across 11 records, grouped by who was speaking.

saddle Auto Tour stop 10 Tour map key B Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list

Also printed as: LEWISBURG SADDLE · Lewisburg Saddle [Benton Co.]

Index references (printed indexes): 27
Transcript mentions: 44

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: 44.63706, -123.29621
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. 3, p. 27
Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 13, p. 24, p. 32, p. 79, p. 84, p. 85, p. 87
Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 25
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 1, p. 9, p. 10, p. 11, p. 12, p. 13, p. 14, p. 15, p. 16, p. 17
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 92
Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 25, p. 34, p. 92, p. 94, p. 99
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 95, p. 104
Paul M. Dunn in #2 Paul M. Dunn p. 37
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 32, p. 52, p. 74
William A. Davies in #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES p. 22, p. 37
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 9, p. 26, p. 84, p. 105, p. 113, p. 179, p. 182, p. 187, p. 191, p. 204

In their words

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

Okay, we call this the Lewisburg Saddle now, did you call it anything before?

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 9

You called it the Lewisburg Saddle?

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 9

Dated statements about this place

1602 — It is located near a group of trees dated to 1602 (Starker 1939), a five-foot diameter Douglas-fir measured in 1853 (Elder 1853), and a tree that contained ax marks dating to 1826 (Jackson 1980; Rowley 1997). Zybach (thesis) · source · Before 1844
1602 — Birth of Soap Creek Valley Douglas-fir to north of Lewisburg Saddle Zybach (thesis) · source · Before 1844
1826 — In 1979, Rowley (Jackson 1980; Rowley 1996) described “axe marks” dating to 1826 in a Soap Creek Valley tree near Lewisburg Saddle. Zybach (thesis) · source · Before 1844
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 Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
1989 — "Soap Creek Valley, Summer, 1989" View from Lewisburg Saddle Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · 1971–1995
1998 — The earliest documentation of this type was purposefully gathered in 1998 to record a 360-degree panorama of The Valley from its floor and a 270-degree panorama from Lewisburg Saddle (Zybach & Fraser 1998). Zybach (thesis) · source · 1996–2026

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