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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.
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Camp Red River hunters
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Carts & wagons; Hunting
The train of the Red River hunters consisting "of 824 carts, about 1,200 animals, and 1,300 persons, men, women, and children." The encampment is formed by making "a circular or square yard of the carts, placed side by side with the...
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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...
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Mouth of Peluse (Palouse) River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Palouse River (Wash.)
The Peluse (Palouse) River "runs through a deep canyon, surrounded by isolated volcanic buttes, to its junction with the Snake River." Plate XL.
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Source of the Peluse (Palouse)
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Palouse River (Wash.); Mountains
The Peluse (Palouse) River "has its source in the main ridge of the Bitter Root" Mountains, "and flows in nearly a straight course through a valley some twenty miles wide," bearing north "through a country densely timbered...
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Columbia River, junction of Des Chutes
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Des Chutes River
The junction where the Des Chutes River flows into the Columbia River. Plate LXVII.
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Distribution of goods to the Gros Ventres
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Hidatsa Indians; Gifts
The expedition party makes a distribution of the presents and provisions designed for the Gros Ventres tribe, "consisting of blankets, shirts, calico, knives, beads, paint, powder, shot, tobacco, and hard bread." Plate XXI.
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Crossing the Bitter Root
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bitterroot River; Fords (Stream crossings)
The expedition crossing the ford to the left bank of the Bitter Root River from the northern bank on which they had been traveling. Plate XXXIV.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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View of the Clark's Fork and the ridge of mountains, south of the Flathead Lake, looking eastward
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Clark Fork River (Mont.); Flathead Lake (Mont.)
The Clark Fork River, "being much cut up by coulees, have the appearance of that on the Upper Missouri. The soil is principally a light yellow clay; the stream here is two hundred yards wide, swift and deep, sparsely timbered with pine and...
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Cascades of the Columbia
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Cascade Falls
The Cascade rapids, sometimes referred to as the Cascade Falls. This is an area of rapids in the Columbia River where travelers by boat along the river were forced to either portage boats and supplies or pull boats up with ropes. Plate XLV.
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Bois de Sioux River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bois de Sioux River (Minn.)
The Bois de Sioux River. The drawing shows two wagons with horses on the bank. Plate VII.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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