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Image Caption: THE COLUMBIA RIVER AT TRAIL, SHOWING SMELTER --page break-- longer than the Kootenay River, but carries less water due to the more arid nature of the country through which it passes; its entire course being in the United States...
2004-07-14
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Image Caption: MOUTH OF PEND D'OREILLE RIVER, ONE-HALF MILE ABOVE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY --page break-- monument marking the exact line of division between the United States and Canada—and consequently on the forty-ninth parallel of latitude....
2004-07-14
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446 p. At the age of 68 M. J. Lorraine explored the Columbia River from its source to its mouth alone in a rowboat. He was the second person, after David Thompson in 1811, to make this unbroken voyage in one boat, which he had built himself. The...
2024-11-23
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CHAPTER XVIII
FROM THE FERRY TO THE BOUNDARY The Valley, Timber, Farms, Rainfall, Geology; Comments on the Canadians and Their Method of Handling the Liquor Problem The Columbia River and the country it traverses has been pretty well...
2004-07-19
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the States) and could leave my things unguarded for days without fear of loss—something I could not do after getting into my own country.
There is one thing, however, that the Canadians seem to resent, and that is, that the people of the States...
2004-07-19
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CHAPTER XIX
FROM THE BOUNDARY TO GEROME Leaving the Boundary September 21 I ran two small rapids and reached Northport, the first town on the Columbia River that is within the United States. Its business section is well back from the River on...
2004-07-19
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operation throws the inshore end of the boat down stream and places it in an inclined position with the current, which striking the upper side of the boat, diagonally, forces it toward the desired shore, the trolley trailing slightly behind and...
2004-07-19
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Image Caption: UPPER END OF LITTLE DALLES --page break-- tween porphyry walls about thirty feet apart. The prospect looked very promising. I had some of the ore assayed and it ran $85.00 to the ton.
Being influenced by the warnings given me, and...
2004-07-19
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day after my arrival I walked down the railway track until I reached the orchard. Here I found everyone busily engaged, either picking, hauling, packing, or shipping apples. The first teamster I met told me he owned his own team, was not free...
2004-07-19
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Guiding the teamster back to my camp I there dismissed him and turned in for the night.
The land at the Little Dalles is owned by Dr. Wells, a relative of Mrs. Critchett, who proposes to erect a dam there to impound the water. It is the most...
2004-07-19
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afloat. Next came the job of getting the load down the trail. This meant nothing but frequent trips, going up light and coming down loaded; but by the time everything was stowed away in the boat I had put in four and one-half hours of hard labor,...
2004-07-19
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thin mattress spread on the ground or a hard board floor was decidedly pleasant. In the morning Mr. Boyle invited me to breakfast, and filled me up with bacon, hot griddle cakes with butter and syrup, and coffee.
The town of Marcus is across the...
2004-07-19
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gave me the photographs of Kettle Falls which I am using as illustrations.
After leaving Marcus a short run landed me at the head of the Falls. The River valley is wide here, and not enclosed by high hills. The higher shore is on the right, but...
2004-07-19
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"sizing up" the situation, and then leaving the point I recrossed the bay to its east shore. Desiring to get a lunch before starting out to search for a team, I was looking around for firewood, and finding none was ready to give up the search when...
2004-07-19
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Image Caption: KETTLE FALLS --page break-- walked a mile to the town of Kettle Falls. The place is' on an extensive flat, well above the surface of the Columbia. In location and appearance the place somewhat resembles Marcus, but is possibly a...
2004-07-19
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Grand Rapids are to be feared by the navigator as much as any other on the Columbia River. The right hand channel,
as I saw it, is too rough and rock-filled for either a large or small boat to run it. The upper one-third of the left-hand...
2004-07-19
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couple, two young men, and two grown girls. The day was Sunday and the young men were evidently visitors.
On making my wants known the young men immediately agreed to help me, and the girls following, we all retraced my trail back to the edge of...
2004-07-19
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me at Grand Rapids is Claud Slentz. After I reached California he wrote me from Colville, Washington, and his letter contained the following paragraph:
"We were sitting there on the rocks watching you travel the rough waves. Just a short while...
2004-07-19
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ment and MTenatchee-Homesteads located on the west side of the Okanogan River, scattered from the Canadian Border, near Loomis, to the west of the Columbia near Wenatchee and Cashmere. There are under this jurisdiction about three thousand Indians...
2004-07-19
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Image Caption: DECEPTION ROCK --page break-- someone before me had used as a fireplace—as was evidenced by the fire-blackened rocks. They were disarranged and as I stooped to place them in an orderly array for cooking purposes, I saw, at my...
2004-07-19
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with sudden fury, the air was filled with flying sand, and the surface of the River was almost instantly whipped into whitecaps. I could make absolutely no progress downstream, rowing was of no avail, and if I ceased the effort, in spite of the...
2004-07-19
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and second to find the two men of whom I was suspicious. There was no COLUMBIA to be found, and reaching the ferry I inquired of the ferryman where the white man I was looking for could be seen—describing him as best I could. The ferryman stated...
2004-07-19
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was a skiff tied to the shore immediately opposite, and I was welcome to use her. Going to the place indicated, I found the skiff, and although there were oars aboard, the rowlocks were missing—evidently hidden. It was a half-mile upstream to...
2004-07-19
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climb through the hills to the east, and among the apple orchards, and then a sharp descent to the River below the farmhouse where I had eaten the day before; after which a "benched in" road clung to the steep slopes, finally reaching a low flat,...
2004-07-19
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CHAPTER XX < br>FROM GEROME TO WENATCHEE
There were still 59 rapids' for me to pass through before reaching the Lower Cascades, and tidewater, but as I ran them all, except a short distance at Spokane Rapids, and made no more portages, I will...
2004-07-19
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