"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,...
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...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Okanogan (Wash.)
"Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is an old and ruinous establishment of the Hudson Bay Company." "The character of the Columbia along the western border of the Spokane Plain and as far as Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is described as follows:...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Vancouver (Wash.)
Drawing of Fort Vancouver which was the administrative headquarters and main supply depot for the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trading operations in the immense Columbia Department. Under the leadership of John McLoughlin, the fort became the center...
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...
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...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Springs; Bitterroot Range
Near the summit of the Bitter Root Mountains, "a hot spring with a temperature of 132 degrees, around which was a fine prairie camping ground." Plate LVII.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake (Wash.); Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation; Inchelium (Wash.) -- History.
View of the main street of the old town of Inchelium. The town was a sub-agency on the Colville Indian Reservation, which had to be moved to make way for Lake Roosevelt.
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...
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.
"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...
Cheney State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); Football players
The Papooses were Cheney Normal's light weight football squad which played neighboring high schools: Front Row, L to R: Arnold Ochs, Anderson, Al Strom, George Werner, Carl Gauksheim, Gordon Rutherford, Richard Wasmund; Standing: Student Coach Carl...
"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...
Structures which were to be inundated by the reservoir were removed before the lake started to fill. The photo appears to show the destruction of one of the piers which supported the Great Northern bridge across the Columbia at Marcus, Washington.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Puget Sound; Mount Rainier; Whidbey Island (Wash.)
"Puget Sound forms a most variegated compound of narrow inlets and sounds, interlinked among each other by passages and channels, and connected with Admiralty Inlet" only by the Narrows, a contracted passage near Point Defiance which...