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Approach to Cadotte's Pass
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys
Exploration party moving up the Sun River valley "in the direction of the pass between the Crown Butte and the Rattlers, prominent landmarks west of Sun River and visible at a great distance." Plate XXIX.
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Old Fort Walla Walla
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Walla Walla (Wash.)
Fort Walla Walla was first built along the Columbia River by the Northwest Company to act as a trading center. A second fort was built by the Hudson Bay Company prior to 1831 and served as a frontier post protecting their interests. This was...
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Awaiting the return of Mr. Tinkham
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.
Governor Stevens and party roasting a joint of beef placed upon a spit while awaiting the arrival of Mr. Tinkham. Plate XXXII.
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Lieutenant Grover's dispatch - Return of Governor Stevens to Fort Benton
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.; Fort Benton (Mont.)
Governor Stevens receives a dispatch "from Lieutenant Grover to the effect that Lieutenant Grover met Lieutenant Saxton near the dividing ridge, and that they were returning together to Fort Benton," as the route could not be traversed by...
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Council with White Man's Horse
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Military camps; Sihasapa Indians; Kainah Indians; Piegan Indians; Fort Union (Mont.); Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.
Isaac Stevens and other members of the expedition at Fort Union, "meeting with a war party of the Blackfeet, consisting of twenty Blood Indians and forty Piegan Indians." Plate XVII.
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Pike Lake
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lakes & ponds
Lieutenant Grover's camp on the shores of Pike Lake. Governor Stevens considered this to be "the real starting point of the expedition and named the camp, "Camp Marcy", in honor of the Secretary of State." Plate VI.
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Crossing the HellGate River May 5th 1854
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Hellgate River (Mont.); Floods
Lieutenant Mullan and party crossing the Hell-Gate River. This river being flooded, "his whole party and property were nearly lost in using a raft unmanageable in the swift current." Plate LVI.
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Crossing the HellGate River January 6, 1854
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Hellgate River (Mont.); Mullan, John, 1830-1909.
Lieutenant Mullan and party crossing the icy Hell-Gate River, January 6, 1854. Plate LXV.
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Entrance to the Bitter Root Mountains, by the Lou Lou Fork
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Valleys; Forks; Rivers; Bitterroot Range; Mullan, John, 1830-1909.
Lieutenant Mullan's party leaving the Bitter Root Valley and heading "down the river to the Lou-Lou Fork, which is fifteen yards wide and two feet deep at its mouth. Its valley is five hundred yards wide, and the mountains on each side are...
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Cantonment Stevens, looking westward
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Military life; Valleys
Looking westward from Cantonment Stevens in the Bitter Root valley. Lieutenant Mullan and his party "established this camp ten miles above Fort Owen." The cantonment sat a little removed from the Indian camp and consisted of "four...
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Marias River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Marias River (Mont.)
Marias River "flows in a channel two or three hundred feet below the prairie level, and is tolerable well wooded. The water was at that time one hundred and fifty feet wide and two to four feet deep, slightly milky, with a swift current and...
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Hot springs at source of Lou Lou fork, Bitter Root Mountains, looking west
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Springs; Bitterroot Range
Near the summit of the Bitter Root Mountains, "a hot spring with a temperature of 132 degrees, around which was a fine prairie camping ground." Plate LVII.
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Sauk River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Sauk River (Minn.)
Sauk River at the point of the expeditions "ford is about 120 feet wide, though, owing to the obliquity of the banks and rapidity of current, the ford is near 300 feet wide and the water five feet deep." Plate III.
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Bitter Root River, near Fort Owen
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bitterroot River (Mont.)
The Bitter Root River near Fort Owen. The drawing shows an Indian fishing from the bank. Plate LXVI.
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Bois de Sioux River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bois de Sioux River (Minn.)
The Bois de Sioux River. The drawing shows two wagons with horses on the bank. Plate VII.
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Cascades of the Columbia
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Cascade Falls
The Cascade rapids, sometimes referred to as the Cascade Falls. This is an area of rapids in the Columbia River where travelers by boat along the river were forced to either portage boats and supplies or pull boats up with ropes. Plate XLV.
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View of the Clark's Fork and the ridge of mountains, south of the Flathead Lake, looking eastward
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Clark Fork River (Mont.); Flathead Lake (Mont.)
The Clark Fork River, "being much cut up by coulees, have the appearance of that on the Upper Missouri. The soil is principally a light yellow clay; the stream here is two hundred yards wide, swift and deep, sparsely timbered with pine and...
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Great Falls of the Missouri River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls; Cliffs; Great Falls (Mont.)
The cliffs at the falls are about "one hundred fifty to three hundred feet deep with a steep descent to within fifty feet of the bottom, and for the remaining distance perpendicular walls of red sandstone." "Above the falls the banks...
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Dalles
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Channels; Indian encampments; Canoes; Dalles (Or.)
The Dalles is a narrow place in the Columbia River, where the channel has been worn out of the rocks, below which about ten miles, is the mouth of the Klikitat River. Drawing shows an Indian encampment on the bank and a canoe on the water. Plate...
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