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...
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...
"This valley for the most part is wide and open." There are "spurs separating it from the Hell-Gate Valley on the south," and "separate on the north the various tributaries flowing into the Blackfoot River." Plate LXII.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Milk River (Mont.)
"The valley of the Milk River is wide and open, with a very heavy growth of cottonwood as far as the eye can reach, which is also to be found along the adjacent shores of the Missouri River." Plate XVIII.
Celebrations -- Washington (State) -- Spokane; Parades & processions -- Washington (State) -- Spokane
Photograph of Cheney's Princess in the 1910 parade of Inland Empire Days, Spokane Pow Wow. The princess is in the back seat of an open car festooned with white fabric and flowers. A behatted man and woman, both dressed in white, are in the front...
Photograph of a placer gold mining operation. Placer is an open pit form of mining using water pressure to extract minerals from the earth without tunneling.
Celebrations -- Washington (State) -- Cheney; Cheney (Wash.) -- History
Photograph of the Grand Marshall driving a decorated open automobile in a Cheney, Washington, parade in 1910. Several other people occupy the vehicle. Photograph also shows a false-front restaurant and hotel in downtown Cheney.