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Horsetail Falls.
Image taken March 6, 2005.
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Horsetail Falls ...
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Pool, Horsetail Falls.
Image taken March 6, 2005.
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Stonework, Horsetail Falls.
Image taken March 6, 2005.
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Horsetail Falls in 1872 ...
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Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor in her 1872 publication "All Over Oregon and Washington" describes Horsetail Falls, altho one wonders whether she is instead describing Multnomah Falls. ... (p.78).
" ... Frequently from lofty ledges and terraces of rock silvery water-falls are seen descending, hundreds of feet, to some basin hidden by intervening curtains of wooded ridges. From the steamer's deck they look like mere ribbons; some of them, indeed, are dashed into invisible spray before they reach a level.
One of the handsomest of these falls has been named the Horse-tail, by somebody more given to ponies than to poetry. It has a straight descent, of several hundred feet, to a basin hidden from view, whence it descends by another fall to the level of the bottom-land, and formas another basin, or pool, among the dense growth of cottonwood, ash, and willow, which everywhere fringe the banks of the river.
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Horsetail Falls in 1940 ...
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From the Oregon State Archives "A 1940 Journey Across Oregon":
"... HORSETAIL FALLS, 156.6 m., forming the design that gives it name, shoot downward across the face of the sheer rock wall into an excellent fishing pool. Spray from the pool continually drifts across the highway. East of the falls towers ST. PETERS DOME, a 2,000-foot basalt pinnacle.
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Winter Waterfalls ...
A cold snap and freezing weather makes for great views of
frozen waterfalls on both sides of the Columbia River Gorge, including
Horsetail Falls.
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Winter, Horsetail Falls, Oregon.
Image taken December 10, 2005.
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Horsetail Falls.
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Icicles, Horsetail Falls.
Image taken December 10, 2005.
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Horsetail Falls from Washington State ...
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Horsetail Falls, Oregon, as seen from Franz Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Washington.
View from Washington State Highway 14.
Image taken April 2, 2005.
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"The Golden Age of Postcards" ...
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The early 1900s was the "Golden Age of Postcards". The "Penny Postcard" became a popular way to send greetings to friends and family. The Penny Postcard today is a part of history.
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Penny Postcard: Horsetail Falls, Oregon, ca.1920.
Penny Postcard, Postmarked 1920, "Horsetail Falls, Columbia River Highway, Oregon". Caption on back reads: "Horsetail Falls. A fine view of this beautiful water fall is obtained from the Columbia River Highway. The Horsetail Falls are 208 feet high. This picture shows the Cathedral Domes beyond.". Published by Lipschuetz and Katz Company, Portland, Oregon. Card is postmarked 1920.
In the private collection of Lyn Topinka.
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Penny Postcard: Horsetail Falls, Oregon, ca.1930.
Penny Postcard, ca.1930, "Horsetail Falls. 205 feet. Columbia River Highway, Oregon.".
Penny Postcard, ca.1930, "Horsetail Falls. 205 feet. Columbia River Highway, Oregon.". Image copyright Cross & Dimmitt. Published by Angelus Commercial Studio, Portland, Oregon. Card #18.
In the private collection of Lyn Topinka.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, November 2, 1805 ...
Examined the rapid below us [from their camp at Fort Rains, looking at the Cascade Rapids] more pertcelarly the danger appearing too great to Hazzard our Canoes loaded, dispatched all the men who could not Swim with loads to the end of the portage below, I also walked to the end of the portage with the carriers where I delayed untill everry articles was brought over and canoes arrived Safe. here we brackfast and took a Meridn. altitude 59° 45' 45" about the time we were Setting out 7 Squars came over loaded with Dried fish, and bear grass neetly bundled up, Soon after 4 Indian men came down over the rapid in a large canoe.
passed a rapid at 2 miles & 1 at 4 miles opposite the lower point of a high Island on the Lard Side [Bradford Island], and a little below 4 Houses on the Stard. Bank, a Small Creek on the Lard Side [Tanner Creek] opposit Straw berry Island [Hamilton Island], which heads below the last rapid, opposit the lower point of this Island [Hamilton Island] passed three Islands covered with tall timber [today there are two, Ives and Pierce] opposit the Beatin rock [Beacon Rock]
Those Islands are nearest the Starboard Side, imediately below on the Stard. Side passed a village of nine houses [Skamania and Skamania Landing], which is Situated between 2 Small Creeks [Woodward Creek and Duncan Creek], and are of the Same construction of those above; here the river widens to near a mile, and the bottoms are more extensive and thickly timbered, as also the high mountains on each Side, with Pine, Spruce pine, Cotton wood, a Species of ash, and alder. at 17 miles passed a rock near the middle of the river [Phoca Rock], about 100 feet high and 80 feet Diamuter,
proceed on down a Smoth gentle Stream of about 2 miles wide, in which the tide has its effect as high as the Beaten rock [Beacon Rock] or the Last rapids at Strawberry Island [Hamilton Island],- Saw great numbers of waterfowl of Different kinds, Such as Swan, Geese, white & grey brants, ducks of various kinds, Guls, & Pleaver [today just below Beacon Rock is Franz National Wildlife Refuge]. ...
we encamped under a high projecting rock on the Lard. Side [Rooster Rock, with Crown Point rising above it], here the mountains leave the river on each Side
[leaving the Columbia River Gorge, Steigerwald Land NWR is on the north and the Sandy River delta is on the south],
which from the great Shute to this place is high and rugid [Columbia River Gorge]; thickly Covered with timber principalley of the Pine Species. The bottoms below appear extensive and thickly Covered with wood. river here about 2½ miles wide. Seven Indians in a Canoe on their way down to trade with the nativs below, encamp with us, those we left at the portage passed us this evening and proceeded on down The ebb tide rose here about 9 Inches, the flood tide must rise here much higher- we made 29 miles to day from the Great Shute [Cascade Locks]-
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