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    • Distribution of goods to the Assiniboines

    • Distribution of goods to the Assiniboines

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Assiniboine Indians; Gifts; Rites & ceremonies

    • Assiniboines at the expedition encampment "arranged to receive their presents. They were seated around in the form of three sides of a square, the open side being opposite to the places occupied by the expedition party, the chief, and the...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Shyenne River

    • Shyenne River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Cheyenne River

    • "The Shyenne (Cheyenne) River is 60 feet wide and 14 feet deep, being the largest branch of Red River crossed by the expedition train." Plate IX.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Council with White Man's Horse

    • Council with White Man's Horse

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Military camps; Sihasapa Indians; Kainah Indians; Piegan Indians; Fort Union (Mont.); Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862.

    • Isaac Stevens and other members of the expedition at Fort Union, "meeting with a war party of the Blackfeet, consisting of twenty Blood Indians and forty Piegan Indians." Plate XVII.
    • 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
    • Pike Lake

    • Pike Lake

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lakes & ponds

    • Lieutenant Grover's camp on the shores of Pike Lake. Governor Stevens considered this to be "the real starting point of the expedition and named the camp, "Camp Marcy", in honor of the Secretary of State." Plate VI.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Herd of bison, near Lake Jessie

    • Herd of bison, near Lake Jessie

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bison; Cheyenne River; Lake Jessie

    • Ascending a high hill after crossing the Sheyenne (Cheyenne) River, the expedition looked out upon an estimated 200,000 buffalo inhabiting the plains separating them from Lake Jessie. Plate X.
    • 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
    • Nez Perces

    • Nez Perces

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Nez Perce Indians

    • 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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
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