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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.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- 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
- Fort Benton
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Benton (Mont.); Missouri River
- "Fort Benton stands on the eastern bank of the Missouri, near the Great Bend." "The river is here perfectly transparent at most seasons of the year. The Teton River empties into the Missouri six miles below Fort Benton; the Marias...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Herd of bison, near Lake Jessie
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bison; Cheyenne River; Lake Jessie
- Ascending a high hill after crossing the Sheyenne (Cheyenne) River, the expedition looked out upon an estimated 200,000 buffalo inhabiting the plains separating them from Lake Jessie. Plate X.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- 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...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- 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.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Lieutenant Grover's dispatch - Return of Governor Stevens to Fort Benton
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.; Fort Benton (Mont.)
- Governor Stevens receives a dispatch "from Lieutenant Grover to the effect that Lieutenant Grover met Lieutenant Saxton near the dividing ridge, and that they were returning together to Fort Benton," as the route could not be traversed by...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Milk River near junction of Missouri
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Milk River (Mont.)
- "The valley of the Milk River is wide and open, with a very heavy growth of cottonwood as far as the eye can reach, which is also to be found along the adjacent shores of the Missouri River." Plate XVIII.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Minnehaha or Brown's Falls near Fort Snelling
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls
- "Minnehaha, or the Laughing Water, called also Brown's Falls. It is situated west of the Mississippi, and distant about three miles from Fort Snelling. Ten miles above the falls the stream flows from Lake Calhoun, and it passes through a level...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Mount Rainier viewed from near Steilacoom
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Mount Rainier (Wash.)
- "Mount Rainier is one of the highest and most prominent peaks of the Cascade range." "The mountain was first discovered by Vancouver in the beginning of May of 1792, from Port Townsend. He named it in honor of his friend, Rear...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Near Mouse River
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Mouse River (N. Dakota)
- "Near Mouse River there are salt marshes" "and in some places deposits of salt a quarter of an inch thick." Mouse River valley "resembles that of the Sheyenne (Cheyenne). High ridges divide the plateau bordering the stream...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Puget Sound and Mount Rainier from Whitby's (Whidbey) Island
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Puget Sound; Mount Rainier; Whidbey Island (Wash.)
- "Puget Sound forms a most variegated compound of narrow inlets and sounds, interlinked among each other by passages and channels, and connected with Admiralty Inlet" only by the Narrows, a contracted passage near Point Defiance which...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Sauk River
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Sauk River (Minn.)
- Sauk River at the point of the expeditions "ford is about 120 feet wide, though, owing to the obliquity of the banks and rapidity of current, the ford is near 300 feet wide and the water five feet deep." Plate III.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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