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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.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- 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.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Bears Paw
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bears Paw Mountains
- "A broad and rugged mountain upheaval, intersected with valleys that stretch from Milk River to the Missouri." Plate XXIII.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Bears Teeth Missouri River - Gate of the Mountain
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Missouri River; Gates of the Mountains (Mont.)
- "A prominent landmark near where the Missouri River issues from what Lewis & Clark denominate 'Gate of the Mountains.'" Plate LI.
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- Big Hole Prairie, from the north
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Big Hole Prairie (Mont.); Mountains; Rivers
- Approximately "fifty miles long and fifteen miles wide," Big Hole Prairie "is hemmed in by high mountains on every side except the southeast where Wisdom River passes out from it." Plate XLIX.
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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.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Blackfeet Indians - Three Buttes
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Buttes; Blackfeet Indians; Hunting; Buffaloes
- "A view of the Three Buttes and the Blackfeet Indians engaged in the hunt." Plate XXVII.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- 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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- Butte de Morale
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Buttes
- "The altitude of this butte, as determined by barometric measurement, is 281.8 feet above the level of the Shyenne (Cheyenne) River." Named for "an engagement between some half-breeds and Sioux, in which one of the former, by the...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Camp Red River hunters
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Carts & wagons; Hunting
- The train of the Red River hunters consisting "of 824 carts, about 1,200 animals, and 1,300 persons, men, women, and children." The encampment is formed by making "a circular or square yard of the carts, placed side by side with the...
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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...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Cape Horn - Columbia River
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River;
- Cape Horn on the Columbia River. Drawing shows expedition party and camp. Plate XLVI.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- 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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- Chemakane Mission
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Tshimakain Mission (Wash.); Walker, Elkanah, 1805-1877; Eels, Cushing, 1810-1893
- Chemakane Mission named for a nearby spring, was "occupied by Messrs. Walker and Eel; but, in 1849, in consequence of the Cayuse difficulties, it was abandoned." "The site of the mission is five miles from the Spokane River, in an...
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- 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...
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- Columbia River, junction of Des Chutes
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Des Chutes River
- The junction where the Des Chutes River flows into the Columbia River. Plate LXVII.
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- Cottonwood grove
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Trees; Milk River (Mont.); Valleys; Military camps
- The expedition camp set up in the midst of a cottonwood grove located on the Milk River in the Milk River Valley. Plate XIX.
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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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- Crossing the Bitter Root
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bitterroot River; Fords (Stream crossings)
- The expedition crossing the ford to the left bank of the Bitter Root River from the northern bank on which they had been traveling. Plate XXXIV.
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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.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints