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    • Fort Benton

    • 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
    • Fort Okinakane (Okanogan)

    • Fort Okinakane (Okanogan)

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Okanogan (Wash.)

    • "Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is an old and ruinous establishment of the Hudson Bay Company." "The character of the Columbia along the western border of the Spokane Plain and as far as Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is described as follows:...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • 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
    • 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
    • Grand Coulee

    • Grand Coulee

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Canyons; Grand Coulee (Wash.)

    • "The Grand Coulee is about ten miles wide where it opens on the Columbia River at its northern end, which is a hundred feet above the water, and gradually widens toward the south; its walls, eight hundred feet high are formed of solid basaltic...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Peluse (Palouse) Falls

    • Peluse (Palouse) Falls

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

    • "The Peluse (Palouse) River flows over three steppes, each of which is estimated to have an ascent of a thousand feet. The falls descend from the middle of the lower of these steppes." "The fall of the water, which is about thirty...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Fort Vancouver, W. T.

    • Fort Vancouver, W. T.

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Vancouver (Wash.)

    • Drawing of Fort Vancouver which was the administrative headquarters and main supply depot for the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trading operations in the immense Columbia Department. Under the leadership of John McLoughlin, the fort became the center...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Dalles

    • Dalles

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Channels; Indian encampments; Canoes; Dalles (Or.)

    • The Dalles is a narrow place in the Columbia River, where the channel has been worn out of the rocks, below which about ten miles, is the mouth of the Klikitat River. Drawing shows an Indian encampment on the bank and a canoe on the water. Plate...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
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