Nez Perce Chief (Sternwheeler)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nez Perce Chief was a steamboat that operated on the upper Columbia, specifically the stretch of the river that began above the 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 of 141 miles from the mouth of the Snake River near Wallula, Wash. Terr. During the 1860s there was a gold rush in Idaho, and Nez Perce Chief and other steamboats of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company were key links in the transportation of miners and equipment…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nez Perce Chief was a steamboat that operated on the upper Columbia, specifically the stretch of the river that began above the 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 of 141 miles from the mouth of the Snake River near Wallula, Wash. Terr. During the 1860s there was a gold rush in Idaho, and Nez Perce Chief and other steamboats of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company were key links in the transportation of miners and equipment upriver to the gold fields, and in transporting gold mined from the fields out. On one trip downriver at the height of the gold rush Nez Perce Chief carried $382,000 worth of gold dust and bars locked in the captain's safe.