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...
"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...
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...
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.
Drawing depicts the meeting of the expedition party with "a band of about fifty Nez Perce Indians going to hunt. They have from 250 to 300 horses, most of them splendid animals, in fine condition, and with perfectly sound backs. Women and...
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...
Exploration party moving up the Sun River valley "in the direction of the pass between the Crown Butte and the Rattlers, prominent landmarks west of Sun River and visible at a great distance." Plate XXIX.
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.
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.
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...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lake Jessie
"The water of Lake Jessie is considerably saline in its character," "and the theory for the saline qualities is found in the fact that it is never washed out, and retains the salt deposits and incrustations." Plate XI.
Eastern Washington State College -- Students; International students
Photograph of students from other nations at Eastern Washington State College (currently Eastern Washington University). Front row: Pat Lum, Barb Kanda; Back row: Chuck Cruz, John Kam, Randy Roman.
Gaines, Xerpha Mae -- Photograph collections; State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.) -- Students -- Photographs; College students -- Washington (State) -- Cheney -- Photographs; State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.)...
Essen Club, Cheney State Normal School, (currently Eastern Washington University) 1902 and 1903. Verso reads 1. Miss Courtright ; 2. Miss O'Malloy ; 3. Dexter Adams ; 4. Ray Pennix ; 5. Cagle ; 6. F.E. Millay ; 7. Roberts ; 8. [unknown] ; 9....
Gaines, Xerpha Mae -- Photograph collections; State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.) -- Students -- Photographs; College students -- Washington (State) -- Cheney -- Photographs
Cheney State Normal School (currently Eastern Washington University) Eighth Grade Class, Training School, 1907. Verso reads left to right. Top row: Dale smith; [unknown]; Tootsy Bab; Hazel; Elsie; Ethel; [unknown]; Hazel Skinner; Edith Lybecker;...