Record Details
pages 14-15
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025h http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,238 |
| Title | pages 14-15 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-06-30 |
| 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. 130,850 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 249, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | 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 with life out-of-doors. As an engineer I had roughed it on the plains of Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado; in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and California; and on the table-lands of New Mexico and Mexico. When a youth on the... |
