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    • Great Falls of the Missouri River

    • 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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Shyenne River

    • Shyenne River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Cheyenne River

    • "The Shyenne (Cheyenne) River is 60 feet wide and 14 feet deep, being the largest branch of Red River crossed by the expedition train." Plate IX.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • 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
    • 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
    • Camp Red River hunters

    • 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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Fort Owen - Flathead village

    • Fort Owen - Flathead village

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Owen (Mont.); Salish Indians; Mullan, John, 1830-1909.

    • "Fort Owen is situated on the Scattering creek of the Lewis and Clark Trail." Drawing depicts Lieutenant Mullan arriving at Fort Owen with a delegation of chiefs from the Flathead nation. Plate XXX.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Falls of the Spokane

    • Falls of the Spokane

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls; Spokane River; Spokane Falls

    • "There are two principle falls, one of twenty feet and the other of from ten to twelve feet; in the latter, there being a perpendicular fall of seven or eight feet; for a quarter of a mile the descent is rapid, over a rough bed of rocks, and...
    • 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
    • Big Hole Prairie, from the north

    • 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.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Big Blackfoot Valley

    • Big Blackfoot Valley

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Valleys; Rivers

    • "This valley for the most part is wide and open." There are "spurs separating it from the Hell-Gate Valley on the south," and "separate on the north the various tributaries flowing into the Blackfoot River." Plate LXII.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
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