Guests traveling aboard the Sea Bird visited the Palouse Falls, where the waters of the Palouse River drop 185 feet. From here the water flowsthrough the scenic Palouse River Canyon before joining the Snake River. The Palouse River begins in the mountains of Idaho and winds across a region known today as the Palouse Country, a land rich both in agricultural production and scenic splendor. Probably the first artist to paint a picture of Palouse Falls and introduce it to the rest of the world was the Canadian, Paul Kane, who visited the area in the late 1840s. Lewis and Clark passed by the confluence of the Palouse and Snake rivers in the fall of 1805, but they didn’t take an artist on their expedition from Pittsburgh to the Pacific.