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    • Chemakane Mission

    • 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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Pike Lake

    • 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.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Butte de Morale

    • 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
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