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Cloud Cap Inn Ready for the Climb
HOOD'S FOREST FASTNESSES A Lure to Camp Life
The fir, pine and hemlock forests of Mount Hood hold many sources of enjoyment and health. Vast in extent, completely surrounding the great mountain, they offer...
2004-07-06
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INDEX
Maps
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Portland - Mist Falls 3 Mist Falls - Hood River 7 Hood River - The Dalles 9 Hood River - Mt. Hood Lodge 45 Road Log Portland - Hood River 5 Hood River - The Dalles 9 The Dalles - Celilo Falls 35 The Dalles - Gardner's Point 35...
2004-07-06
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Hotel Cornelius
HOUSE of WELCOME
C. W. CORNELIUS, Prop. HARRY E. FLETCHER, Mgr.
Corner Park and Alder Streets
PORTLAND, ORE.
AUTOMOBILIST HEADQUARTERS Rates — Without Bath $1.00 Per Day Up With Bath $1.50 Per Day Up OUR AUTO BUS MEETS ALL...
2004-07-06
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David Thompson, Pathfinder
and the Columbia River
By
T. C. ELLIOTT
Member of American Historical Association
and of Oregon Historical Society
The Scimitar Press
Kettle Falls, Wash.
1911
2004-07-29
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DAVID THOMPSON, PATHFINDER and the Columbia River BY T. C. ELLIOTT An address given at the Annual Meeting of the Pioneer Association of Stevens County, at Kettle Falls, Washington, June 23, 1911. This anniversary year on the Columbia has special...
2004-07-04
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know the salmon to have to the taste of the water in which men and animals and especially salmon have been washed to superstition. They did (not) begin spearing till near noon, as the spearer had seen the bearer of a deaths head boy since dead; to...
2004-07-04
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ploring and trading there during 1809-10 and the establishment of two trading posts, one near to the Thompson Falls, Montana, of the present day. To the Saleesh he had come by the "Kullyspell Lake Indian Road" from the Kootenay river, where he...
2004-07-04
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present day; but more than a mere physical achievement by him because his record gave first to the world its knowledge of the long sought for source and windings of this river, as a few years previous he had been the first to discover and mark the...
2004-07-04
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fected to the verge of mutiny by the sufferings they shared with him. On the 15th the thermometer was minus 30 degrees. . . . On Saturday, the 29th, thermometer 31 below he started. . . . On New Years Day 1811, thermometer minus 24 degrees, the...
2004-07-04
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all. At the age of seven years and a poor boy David Thompson had been placed by his father in a charity school in London, and remained there seven years learning all that was taught, which included a little of navigation, and reading all that came...
2004-07-04
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endurance, intelligence and care; they show that he was a devout man. His common expressions "thank God" and "thank Heaven" were sincere outbursts of a spiritual nature and not mere habitual repetitions. That season of 1811 at midsummer he had an...
2004-07-04
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ritories, and that the Northwest Company of Merchants from Canada finding the factory of this people inconvenient to them do hereby intend to erect a factory in this place for the Commerce of the Country around." Intelligent students of American...
2004-07-04
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munication, trade and travel across the continent of North America (Mexico excepted) passed up and down the Columbia River and for a period of thirty years and more was used as such, with the portage at Kettle Falls affording one of the most...
2004-07-04
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9 p. Transcription of an address given at the annual meeting of the Pioneer Association of Stevens County at Kettle Falls, Washington, on June 23, 1911. Elliott points out that the early white explorer and geographer David Thompson reached Kettle...
2024-11-23
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Image Caption: THE OLD VOYAGER, AGE 69
THE COLUMBIA UNVEILED Being the story of a trip, alone, in a rowboat from the source to the mouth of the COLUMBIA RIVER Together with a full description of the country traversed, and the...
2004-06-30
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Copyright, 1924, by
M. J. Lorraine
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"Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, save his own dashings."
—Bryant.
Swiftly pitching adown Columbia's mighty steps I go,
Midst black, forbidding rocks, and waves...
2004-06-30
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[blank page] PREFACE
In submitting the story of my trip down the Columbia River I do not do so as a writer but as a traveler, and in a sense as an explorer. It is a narrative mainly of personal experiences and impressions, and is intended to...
2004-06-30
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them to Ellis Morigeau, J. P. Forde, and T. W. Saunders.
At the outset of my trip I had no definite intention of writing a description of the Columbia River. The idea was one of growth that developed as I proceeded. I found that to residents of...
2004-06-30
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE XVI FROM THE FERRY TO REVELSTOKE 171 XVII FROM REVELSTOKE TO THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY 192 XVIII FROM THE FERRY TO THE BOUNDARY: The valley, timber, farms, rainfall, geology. Comments on the Canadians, and their...
2004-06-30
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made the continuous journey in the one craft. His experiences and his impressions of the River and the country traversed are recorded in the story of the trip he made.
I can recall the time I first met Mr. Lorraine, and the manner in which he...
2004-06-30
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I had always been interested in the Columbia River, due mainly to the fact that one of my ancestors, Samuel Brown, was one of the six Boston merchants who outfitted the expedition that discovered the mouth of the River.
I had had much experience...
2004-06-30
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Image Caption: WITH PACK AND RIFLE ON AN ALASKA TRAIL
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overtook me, with no other shelter but the foliage of a spruce or hemlock tree.
In 1915, I was again on the Unuk River—this time with two partners. We constructed a...
2004-06-30
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carried across to the foot, where the original boats had been left, we re-loaded and rowed back to Ketchikan, my party using the boat constructed in the forest and leaving our original boat behind. On this trip we carried tents with us and made...
2004-06-30
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