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H. M. Showalter and Horse
Stables; Feed stores; Sprague (Wash.) -- History
Photograph of H. M. Showalter with a horse he bought from France standing in front of the Sprague Livery & Feed Stable. Sprague is located approximately 37 miles southwest of Spokane, Washington. The photograph shows the livery stable as well...
Communities of the Inland Northwest

Man posing for the camera at the beginning of the National Parks Highway Association tour
National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections
Man posing for the camera at the beginning of the National Parks Highway Association tour. The tour began on June 4, 1916 and was to last 33 days and cover 3, 100 miles. The tour officially ended on July 7, 1916 in Tacoma Washington. The odometers...
Inland Automobile Association

Fish Lake
Lakes & ponds
Fish Lake, located 2 miles northeast of Cheney on the Cheney-Spokane Highway in Spokane County, Washington.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Dry Falls
Geology -- Washington (State); Waterfalls; Volcanic rock; Canyons
Photo of Dry Falls, a dry cliff that stands 400 ft. high and 3.5 miles wide. Dry Falls is a feature of Grand Coulee Canyon, which is part of the channeled scablands of eastern Washington.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Scooteny Reservoir
Geology -- Washington (State); Basins
Scooteny Reservoir is located 15 miles from Othello Washington in Franklin County.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Ephemeral Lake and lateral cataract recess, 9 miles north of Coulee City along eastern wall
Geology -- Washington (State)
View of Ephemeral Lake and lateral cataract recess, 9 miles north of Coulee City along eastern wall
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

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.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Minnehaha or Brown's Falls near Fort Snelling
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls
"Minnehaha, or the Laughing Water, called also Brown's Falls. It is situated west of the Mississippi, and distant about three miles from Fort Snelling. Ten miles above the falls the stream flows from Lake Calhoun, and it passes through a level...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Chemakane Mission
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Tshimakain Mission (Wash.); Walker, Elkanah, 1805-1877; Eels, Cushing, 1810-1893
Chemakane Mission named for a nearby spring, was "occupied by Messrs. Walker and Eel; but, in 1849, in consequence of the Cayuse difficulties, it was abandoned." "The site of the mission is five miles from the Spokane River, in an...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Hot Spring mound, in the "Deer Lodge" prairie, of the Rocky Mountains
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Springs; Mounds (Landforms); Prairies
A conical mound near the center of a beautiful prairie called the "Deer Lodge". The mound stands "about thirty feet high, around the base of which are innumerable springs of hot water. On top of the mound a spring three feet in...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Victor's camp - Hell Gate Ronde
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Salish Indians; Hellgate River (Mont.)
Drawing depicts the camp of Victor, a Flathead Chief. The camp sits on the Hell-Gate River "three miles above its junction with the Bitter Root." Plate XXXI.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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

Fort Benton
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Benton (Mont.); Missouri River
"Fort Benton stands on the eastern bank of the Missouri, near the Great Bend." "The river is here perfectly transparent at most seasons of the year. The Teton River empties into the Missouri six miles below Fort Benton; the Marias...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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

Kamas Prairie of the Pend D'Orielles Indians in the Rocky Mountains, looking southward
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Camas Prairie
"Kamas Prairie, twenty miles below the mouth of the Jocko River." Plate LIII
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Big Hole Prairie, from the north
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Big Hole Prairie (Mont.); Mountains; Rivers
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.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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