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Pyramid and surrounding country showing Captain Featherstonhaugh's camp
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Pyramid and surrounding country showing Captain Featherstonhaugh's camp
ca. 1873

The Prairies are not composed of undifferentiated flat plain, but include many areas of hills, ravines, and coulees. While surveying in such areas took more time than on the plain, it also allowed the surveyors views of their surroundings they otherwise could not get. The unidentified surveyor on the "pyramid" evidently enjoyed being king of the hill.

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