Soap Creek Valley · Place

Switzerland

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Switzerland: 10 transcript mentions across 2 records, grouped by who was speaking.

country No coordinate

Index references (printed indexes): 14
Transcript mentions: 10

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

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 11
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 1, p. 2, p. 9, p. 39, p. 85, p. 89, p. 91, p. 93, p. 96

In their words

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

I don't know for sure, but Carl and his wife Lucy were from Switzerland.

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 11

The first thing I'd like you to describe Jake, is when your father came over from Switzerland, and how your father and mother came to live in Oregon.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 1

Dated statements about this place

1908 — And this was in 1908, when my father caine. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1891–1920
1913 — In 1913 he went back to Switzerland and brought my mother over to Kansas, and my mother said, "This is not for me!" Dry, and windy, and no trees. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

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

More on citing this collection: How to cite the Zybach Collection.

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