Record Details
[The Columbia River from Ainsworth to Kettle Falls], 1881
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | [The Columbia River from Ainsworth to Kettle Falls], 1881 |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu531 wsu 531 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,677 |
| Creator | Pingstone, Alfred T., Capt. |
| Date | 1881 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Portland, Or.: A.G. Walling |
| Description | 1 map; 24 x 25 cm. "Capt. Pingstone was specially commissioned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company to make a reconnoissance of the Columbia River, from the neighborhood of Fort Colville to Ainsworth, and report on the navigability for steamboats. Accompanied by two Indians, the journey (of 427 miles) was performed, in a birch bark canoe, in nine days." |
| Subject | Washington (State)--Rivers--Maps; ;; ;;; Columbia River--Maps |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (Terr.) -- Columbia River Basin |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.5 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg |
| Contributor | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Is found in Report of Capt. Alfred T. Pingstone to Manager Oakes on the Columbia River from Ainsworth to Kettle Falls and the Feasibility of navigating it by sternwheel steamboats to its headwaters; together with a brief sketch of the character of the country adjacent and its settlements; and a diary kept while coming down the river from Kettle Falls to Ainsworth, in February and March, 1881. |
