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Surveying the Columbia River was no easy task: the river froze, and huge chunks of running ice threatened the wooden vessel. While they were on the river, the U.S. purchased Alaska from the Russians.
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Schmieder, R.W. (2019). Columbia River 1867–68. In: Edward Cordell and the Discovery of Cordell Bank. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02029-3_21
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