The Colonel Wright was the first steamboat to operate on the Columbia River above The Dalles in the parts of the Oregon Country that later became the U...
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with Colonel Wright which was the first steamer on the Columbia above Celilo. Tenino was a bigger and more powerful vessel than Colonel Wright the first...
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launched and put into service in the spring of 1863. In 1868 Wright built a second sternwheeler to augment the service of the Enterprise. It was the Victoria...
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vessels built by the Willamette River Navigation Company included the sternwheelers Vancouver (1870), Beaver (1873), and Willamette Chief (1874). Grover...
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relatively long time for a vessel of its type, built entirely of wood. This sternwheeler should not be confused with the small steamboat Mascot which operated...
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Ed. 1973) Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia, Univ. of Nebraska (1947; 1977 printing) ISBNÂ 0-8032-5874-7 Wright, E.W., ed., Lewis and Dryden's...
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at 45 and 121-122. Timmen, Blow for the Landing, at 228-229. Mills, Sternwheelers up Columbia, at 56 and 200. Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers...
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vessel was involved in a collision in Puget Sound off Des Moines with the sternwheeler Hassalo. Otter sustained substantial damage but was successfully beached...
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Celilo Falls. Her engines came from the Carrie Ladd, an important earlier sternwheeler. Nez Perce Chief also ran up the Snake River to Lewiston, Idaho, a distance...
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Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBNÂ 0-920034-08-X Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, at 56...
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