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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Cottonwood grove

    • Cottonwood grove

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Trees; Milk River (Mont.); Valleys; Military camps

    • The expedition camp set up in the midst of a cottonwood grove located on the Milk River in the Milk River Valley. Plate XIX.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Teton Valley

    • Teton Valley

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Teton River (Minn.); Valleys

    • The Teton Valley, "a vast plain, descending towards the east, the soil of inferior quality, and the dry vegetation indicated the change in the climate observed in going over the high, dry plains towards the Missouri." "The valley...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Sauk River

    • 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
    • Saint Paul

    • Saint Paul

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Saint Paul (Minn.)

    • "St. Paul is beautifully located upon a high bluff on the east bank of the river, and is rapidly growing in size and importance. It is quite a business place, everything indicating vigor and activity. Among its prominent buildings are the...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
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