Record Details
Almota. Snake River Whitman Co. W.T. (1882)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Almota. Snake River Whitman Co. W.T. (1882) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu549 wsu 549; F897.A15 G42 1882 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,692 |
| Creator | Gilbert, Frank T. |
| Date | 1882 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Portland, Or.: Printing House of A.G. Walling |
| Description | 1 view ; 11 x 16 cm. Almota, on the north side of the Snake River almost 40 miles above Clarkston, was early on used by Nez Perce Indians as a fishing site. "Allamotin", "Almotine", and even "Alto Motin" have been given as Nez Perce names for the area, meaning "torchlight" or "moonlight fishing". Almota, soon became the trading/shipping center for all of Inland Empire, but lost some of its business when rail lines arrived in Colfax in 1883. The Oregon, Washington and Idaho Railroad and the... |
| Subject | Washington (State) -- History.; Almota, Wash. -- Pictorial Works |
| Type | Maps; Bird's-eye views |
| Coverage | United States -- Washington (State) -- Whitman County -- Almota |
| 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 . Historic sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and Garfield counties, Washington Territory. |
