The Beginnings of the “Endless Missouri”
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Volcanoguy
N 44° 58.250 W 113° 26.621
12T E 307302 N 4982615
History sign at Sacajawea Memorial Area, about headwaters of the Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMF3BE
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 08/15/2012
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Text of Sign.
“two miles below McNeal had exultingly stood with a foot on each side of this little rivulet and thanked his god that he had lived to bestride the mighty & heretofore deemed endless Missouri.” - Meriwether Lewis, August 12, 1805
Hugh McNeal stood over Trail Creek, about two and a half miles downstream from here. This little stream is just one of hundreds of small tributaries that flow into the Missouri River.
After many months laboring to pole, paddle, and drag the heavy boats of the Lewis and Clark Expedition upstream against strong currents of the Missouri, McNeal was finally able to straddle that great river near here.
Describe the area and history:
Headwaters of Trail Creek which Lewis and Clark visited on August 12, 1805.
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