The Oregon Steam Navigation Company was an American company incorporated in 1860 in Washington with partners J. S. Ruckle, Henry Olmstead, and J. O. Van Bergen. It was incorporated in Washington becau
The Dalles-Celilo portage railroad in 1867 looking west towards "Cape Horn".
Cascades of the Columbia
Oneonta (sidewheeler)
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The Oneonta was a sidewheel steamboat that operated on the Columbia River from 1863 to 1877.
Oregon Steam Navigation Company
…added the Nez Perce Chief, the Webfoot, the Owyhee and the Yakima, all built at Celilo on the upper Columbia, and the Mississippi-style side-wheeler Oneonta on the middle river. OSN also purchased the side-wheeler New World to work the lower Columbia. By 1878, OSN had added to its fleet the sternwheelers…
Oneonta meeting portage train at Upper Cascades, Wash. Terr., 1867
Oneonta near upper Cascades, in 1867
1865 newspaper advertisement for Oneonta running on the middle Columbia