Record Details
pages 324-325
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025fg http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,406 |
| Title | pages 324-325 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-20 |
| 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. 93,555 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 | River, just above its junction with the Columbia, as a fur trading post by the Hudson Bay Company in 1820. When the Canadians abandoned their posts south of the Border the United States Government took possession, established a military encampment, and changed the name. During the pioneer times of the Northwest, Fort Wallula was a center of great activity, but now nothing remains but a solitary house and a flag-pole. Leaving the old orchard on the morning of October 16 in a short distance I... |
