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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

Sauk River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Sauk River (Minn.)
Sauk River at the point of the expeditions "ford is about 120 feet wide, though, owing to the obliquity of the banks and rapidity of current, the ford is near 300 feet wide and the water five feet deep." Plate III.
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

Entrance to the Bitter Root Mountains, by the Lou Lou Fork
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Valleys; Forks; Rivers; Bitterroot Range; Mullan, John, 1830-1909.
Lieutenant Mullan's party leaving the Bitter Root Valley and heading "down the river to the Lou-Lou Fork, which is fifteen yards wide and two feet deep at its mouth. Its valley is five hundred yards wide, and the mountains on each side are...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

WiFiPoz -- an accurate indoor positioning system
Location-based services; Mobile geographic information systems; Global Positioning System
Theses -- Restricted Access

Resident fish community impacts on stocked rainbow trout ecology in 15 eastern Washington lakes
Rainbow trout--Physiology--Washington (State), Eastern; Fish stocking--Washington (State), Eastern--Evaluation; Fish stock assessment--Washington (State), Eastern; Hatchery releases--Washington (State), Eastern; Rainbow trout--Washington (State),...
Theses

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

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.
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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

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

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

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

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...
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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

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

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

Big Blackfoot Valley
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Valleys; Rivers
"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.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Milk River near junction of Missouri
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.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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