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    • Flathead Lake, looking southward

    • Flathead Lake, looking southward

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lakes & ponds; Rapids; Waterfalls; Prairies; Islands; Flathead Lake (Mont.)

    • "Just below the outlet of Flathead Lake there is a series of rapids and falls, one of which, at the time, was fifteen feet high. The country to the west of the lake is a high rolling prairie. Salmon trout, three feet long, are caught in it,...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Lightning Lake

    • Lightning Lake

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lightning Lake (Mont.)

    • "Lightning Lake is a very beautiful sheet of water, so called from the fact that during Captain Pope's expedition, while encamped here, one of those storms so fearfully violent in this country occurred, during which one of his party was...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Near Mouse River

    • 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
    • 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
    • Kettle Falls, Columbia River

    • Kettle Falls, Columbia River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls; Columbia River; Kettle Falls (Wash.)

    • "The Columbia River at Fort Colville is about three hundred and fifty yards wide just above the Sometknu, or Kettle Falls. These consist of two pitches, one of fifteen feet and another below it of ten, and the river is narrowed to two hundred...
    • 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
    • Cantonment Stevens, looking westward

    • 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
    • Marias River

    • Marias River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Marias River (Mont.)

    • Marias River "flows in a channel two or three hundred feet below the prairie level, and is tolerable well wooded. The water was at that time one hundred and fifty feet wide and two to four feet deep, slightly milky, with a swift current and...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • 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
    • White Bear Lake

    • White Bear Lake

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; White Bear Lake (Minn.)

    • White Bear Lake, "a beautiful sheet of water, bordered with timber, about fourteen miles long and two wide, with high swelling banks running back a mile or so, and rising to the height of about one hundred and fifty feet." Plate V.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
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