Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Puget Sound; Mount Rainier; Whidbey Island (Wash.)
"Puget Sound forms a most variegated compound of narrow inlets and sounds, interlinked among each other by passages and channels, and connected with Admiralty Inlet" only by the Narrows, a contracted passage near Point Defiance which...
Washington (State) -- Cheney -- History; Northern Pacific Railway Company -- History; Railroads
Photograph of an early 20th Century train, probably the Spokane - Puget Sound Local of the Northern Pacific Railway, heading westbound out of Cheney, ca. 1912.
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...