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    • Butte de Morale

    • Butte de Morale

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Buttes

    • "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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Camp Red River hunters

    • 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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Conveyer Tower

    • Conveyer Tower

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • A conveyer belt was carried on a suspension bridge over the Columbia River at a height approximately 35 feet higher than the finished dam.
    • Hubert Blonk
    • 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
    • Flathead Lake, looking southward

    • Flathead Lake, looking southward

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lakes & ponds; Rapids; Waterfalls; Prairies; Islands; Flathead Lake (Mont.)

    • "Just below the outlet of Flathead Lake there is a series of rapids and falls, one of which, at the time, was fifteen feet high. The country to the west of the lake is a high rolling prairie. Salmon trout, three feet long, are caught in it,...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Grand Coulee

    • Grand Coulee

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Canyons; Grand Coulee (Wash.)

    • "The Grand Coulee is about ten miles wide where it opens on the Columbia River at its northern end, which is a hundred feet above the water, and gradually widens toward the south; its walls, eight hundred feet high are formed of solid basaltic...
    • 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
    • Hungry Horse Dam site

    • Hungry Horse Dam site

    • Dams -- Montana; Dam construction -- Montana; Hungry Horse Dam

    • Hungry Horse Dam is on the South Fork of the Flathead River in Montana. The dam was built as part of the Hungry Horse Project to provide hydroelectric power and flood control. At 564 feet, the dam is the 10th highest in the U.S.
    • Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection
    • 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
    • Marias River

    • 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...
    • 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
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