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pages 46-47

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025x http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,297
Title pages 46-47
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-06
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Description below Athalmer, and here built a permanent fort to which he gave the name of "Kootanae House," the remains of which can still be seen just east of the wagon road between Athalmer and Wilmer. Here he remained until the spring of 1808 when he journeyed southward across Lakes Windermere and Columbia to the flat at the head of the latter, which we now know as Canal Flat, reaching it April 21, 1808, the earliest date a white man is known to have viewed the head of the Columbia River. He port-aged...

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