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- 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.
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Hot Spring mound, in the "Deer Lodge" prairie, of the Rocky Mountains
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Springs; Mounds (Landforms); Prairies
- A conical mound near the center of a beautiful prairie called the "Deer Lodge". The mound stands "about thirty feet high, around the base of which are innumerable springs of hot water. On top of the mound a spring three feet in...
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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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- Kamas Prairie of the Pend D'Orielles Indians in the Rocky Mountains, looking southward
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Camas Prairie
- "Kamas Prairie, twenty miles below the mouth of the Jocko River." Plate LIII
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- Milk River - Bears Paw Mountain in distance
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Milk River (Mont.); Bears Paw Mountains
- Drawing depicts Milk River with Bears Paw Mountain in the distance. Bears Paw, "a broad and rugged mountain upheaval, stretches from Milk River to the Missouri." Plate XXII.
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- Rocky Mountains, looking westward
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Rocky Mountains; Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
- Drawing depicts a view of the Rocky Mountains, looking westward. Point (a) marks the Lewis and Clark Trail, and point (b) marks Heart Mountain. Plate LXIII.
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- Source of the Peluse (Palouse)
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Palouse River (Wash.); Mountains
- The Peluse (Palouse) River "has its source in the main ridge of the Bitter Root" Mountains, "and flows in nearly a straight course through a valley some twenty miles wide," bearing north "through a country densely timbered...
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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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