Record Details
page 4
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_024e http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,224 |
| Title | page 4 |
| Relation | David Thompson, Pathfinder and the Columbia River |
| Date | 2004-07-04 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 249,592 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiff and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale multi-page tiff edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 247 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | 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 real source of the mighty Mississippi river. David Thompson was a "goer." If anything further is needed to indicate this let it be said that during the last days of April, 1810, he was at Pend d' Oreille lake of Northern Idaho, and in July of the... |
