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    • Cascades of the Columbia

    • 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.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Kettle Falls, Columbia River

    • Kettle Falls, Columbia River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls; Columbia River; Kettle Falls (Wash.)

    • "The Columbia River at Fort Colville is about three hundred and fifty yards wide just above the Sometknu, or Kettle Falls. These consist of two pitches, one of fifteen feet and another below it of ten, and the river is narrowed to two hundred...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Fort Okinakane (Okanogan)

    • Fort Okinakane (Okanogan)

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Okanogan (Wash.)

    • "Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is an old and ruinous establishment of the Hudson Bay Company." "The character of the Columbia along the western border of the Spokane Plain and as far as Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is described as follows:...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Dalles

    • 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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Fort Vancouver, W. T.

    • Fort Vancouver, W. T.

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Vancouver (Wash.)

    • Drawing of Fort Vancouver which was the administrative headquarters and main supply depot for the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trading operations in the immense Columbia Department. Under the leadership of John McLoughlin, the fort became the center...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Grand Coulee

    • Grand Coulee

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Canyons; Grand Coulee (Wash.)

    • "The Grand Coulee is about ten miles wide where it opens on the Columbia River at its northern end, which is a hundred feet above the water, and gradually widens toward the south; its walls, eight hundred feet high are formed of solid basaltic...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Coeur D'Alene Mission St Ignatius River

    • Coeur D'Alene Mission St Ignatius River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Coeur D'Alene Mission; Churches; Prairies; Rivers

    • "The mission is located upon a hill overlooking extensive prairies stretching to the east and west toward the Coeur D'Alene Mountains and the Columbia River. About a hundred acres of the eastern prairie adjoining the Mission are enclosed and...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Old Fort Walla Walla

    • 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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
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