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Tom Stewart,
PhD.
Dr Stewart has made an exhaustive and well-documented study of
the subject and is available for public lectures on the history
of the Santiam Wagon Road or "Willamette Valley and Cascade
Mountain Wagon Road" (WVCMWR), a pioneer highway from the
Willamette Valley to the high plains, across the Cascades to
the east, and beyond to the Snake River crossing near Ontario
in Idaho...
Includes, but not limited to: the discovery of the Santiam
Pass, the earliest explorations of the Pass by white men,
the discovery and blazing of the trail by Andrew Wiley and
his parties of 1859-60, uses of the road between 1860 and
1864, the establishment of the WVCMWR company in 1864, the
building of the toll road, "completion" announced in 1865,
Federal inspection and comments, the first automobile to
cross the pass in 1905.
No stipend required for charitable organizations or benefits,
excluding travel expenses from/to Lebanon OR.
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