Rugged Beauty
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Rugged Beauty
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Telling and striking, this land. Rugged beauty. I was thinking to use the title as "Ancient Sentiment" for a bit of a pun.
In June, 1808, there was discovered a large, rapid river
flowing from the east. This was named Thompson River
after David Thompson, ast�onomer to the Northwest Company,
who shortly afterward founded Fort Kamloops.
In later years the Thompson River became known
through a series of gold rushes. The first discovery of
gold in British Columbia is said to have been made by an
Indian at the junction of the Nicoamen and Thompson rivers.
This locality became noted for its coarse gold, which was
soon exhausted. (7)
In 1871 Cache Creek consisted of an inn and store
combined, a blacksmith shop and some Indian buts. (16)
Prom Cache Creek the road extended through the Semlin
Valley, then not named. This valley was described by
G. MI, Dawson in 1877 as having beenp a-t one time, the
course of a river, but whether the Thompson had flowed
through it to the Bonaparte, or the latter to join the
Thompson, he could not determine. He reported that
several good farms, with an abundant water supply for
irrigation, were situated in this valley. (5)
In the Thompson Valley from the mouith of Semlin
Valley to Savona's Ferry in 1877, trees were scarce and
represented only by yellow pine, which grew in scattered
clumps. Bunchgrass and sage were the characteristic
plants, but as in many other localities, the bunchgrass
was already almost entirely destroyed in the lower parts
of the valley by overgrazing,
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August 15th, 2012
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