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Hungry Horse Dam, sand blasting
Dams -- Montana; Dam construction -- Montana; Hungry Horse Dam
Photograph of construction workers sand blasting at the construction of the Hungry Horse Dam. 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...
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

McNary locks, Washington shore
Dams; Locks (Hydraulic engineering); McNary Dam
The lock is a single lift type, 86 feet wide and 683 feet long, with a 15-foot minimum depth over the sills. The vertical lifts average 75 feet. The lock is located on the Washington side of the Columbia River.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

McNary Dam drawing
Engineering drawings; Dams; McNary Dam
Architectural drawing of the McNary Dam, a 7365 foot hydroelectric dam that spans the Columbia River. McNary Dam is located one mile east of Umatilla, Oregon.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Approach to Cadotte's Pass
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys
Exploration party moving up the Sun River valley "in the direction of the pass between the Crown Butte and the Rattlers, prominent landmarks west of Sun River and visible at a great distance." Plate XXIX.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Fort Union, and distribution of goods to the Assinniboines (Assiniboines)
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Assiniboine Indians; Gifts; Fort Union (Mont.)
"Fort Union is situated on the eastern bank of the Missouri River, about 2 ¾ miles above the mouth of the Yellowstone. It was built by the American Fur Company in 1830, and has from that time been the principal supply store or depot of that...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Bears Paw
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bears Paw Mountains
"A broad and rugged mountain upheaval, intersected with valleys that stretch from Milk River to the Missouri." Plate XXIII.
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

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

Bitter Root River, near Fort Owen
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bitterroot River (Mont.)
The Bitter Root River near Fort Owen. The drawing shows an Indian fishing from the bank. Plate LXVI.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Crossing the Bitter Root
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bitterroot River; Fords (Stream crossings)
The expedition crossing the ford to the left bank of the Bitter Root River from the northern bank on which they had been traveling. Plate XXXIV.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Bois de Sioux River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bois de Sioux River (Minn.)
The Bois de Sioux River. The drawing shows two wagons with horses on the bank. Plate VII.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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

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

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

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

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

View of the Clark's Fork and the ridge of mountains, south of the Flathead Lake, looking eastward
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Clark Fork River (Mont.); Flathead Lake (Mont.)
The Clark Fork River, "being much cut up by coulees, have the appearance of that on the Upper Missouri. The soil is principally a light yellow clay; the stream here is two hundred yards wide, swift and deep, sparsely timbered with pine and...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Coeur D'Alene Mission St Ignatius River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Coeur D'Alene Mission; Churches; Prairies; Rivers
"The mission is located upon a hill overlooking extensive prairies stretching to the east and west toward the Coeur D'Alene Mountains and the Columbia River. About a hundred acres of the eastern prairie adjoining the Mission are enclosed and...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Cape Horn - Columbia River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River;
Cape Horn on the Columbia River. Drawing shows expedition party and camp. Plate XLVI.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Cascades of the Columbia
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Cascade Falls
The Cascade rapids, sometimes referred to as the Cascade Falls. This is an area of rapids in the Columbia River where travelers by boat along the river were forced to either portage boats and supplies or pull boats up with ropes. Plate XLV.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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