Record Details
page 9
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_024j http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,229 |
| Title | page 9 |
| 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. 149,582 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiff and generate text file for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiff edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 247, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEG created. |
| Description | 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 important supply and resting stations. We do well to honor the career and name of the man who discovered, explored, made known and opened this highway of communication, David Thompson, who loved his work and did it well, and who is proclaimed by Mr.... |
