The Columbia River . Lake Pend Oreille, IdahoPhoto by T. AV. Lake Coeur dAlene, , by T. W. Tohnan. The Lakes from Arrow Lakes to Chelan 30: the fur-trade on the upper River. Here were thestrongest of all the Catholic missions, and here werethe most fertile fields and the earliest cultivated of anyon the upper River. Here is the Colville IndianReservation, and here for many years the wily anduntamable old savage JNIoses herded his bands of cuitans, watched the incoming whites with jealouseye, and, as opportunity offered, made way with suchwandering prospectors or stockmen as
The Columbia River . Lake Pend Oreille, IdahoPhoto by T. AV. Lake Coeur dAlene, , by T. W. Tohnan. The Lakes from Arrow Lakes to Chelan 30: the fur-trade on the upper River. Here were thestrongest of all the Catholic missions, and here werethe most fertile fields and the earliest cultivated of anyon the upper River. Here is the Colville IndianReservation, and here for many years the wily anduntamable old savage JNIoses herded his bands of cuitans, watched the incoming whites with jealouseye, and, as opportunity offered, made way with suchwandering prospectors or stockmen as he could findoff their guard in rocky glen or forest depth. (Andnone ever knew what became of them.) Here Halla-kallakeen (Eagle Wing) the great Nez Perce chief,commonly known as Joseph, who waged the WallowaWar of 1877 to its bitter conclusion, carried on thesad remnant of his days, and not far distant on thewild Nespilem, he held his summer camp. In all di-rections around Colville and Kettle Falls, up the SansFoil and Kettle rivers, are opening mines and farms,o
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