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HISTORY OF THE THREE FORKS OF THE MISSOURI.
...The Below, Published On Facebook.com, 28 July, 2022 by David Matos.

….On July 28, 1805, Meriwether Lewis put pen to paper and recorded a consequential decision…
….“Both Capt. C[lark]. and myself corrisponded in opinion with rispect to the impropriety of calling either of these streams the Missouri and accordingly agreed to name them after the President of the United States and the Secretairies of the Treasury and State having previously named one river in honour of the Secretaries of War (Dearborn's River) and Navy (Smith's River). In pursuance of this resolution we called the S. W. fork, that which we meant to ascend, Jefferson's River in honor of that illustrious personage Thomas Jefferson. the Middle fork we called Madison's River in honor of James Madison, and the S. E. Fork we called Gallitin's River in honor of Albert Gallatin.”
….Lewis & Clark and their Corps of Discovery had arrived at the headwaters of the Missouri River on July 25, 1805, Their Lemhi Shoshone guide Sacajawea recognized the area as the place she had been abducted from her people years earlier. A scouting party led by Clark went ahead to the Three Forks, where three meandering rivers merged into the Missouri Rivers. Instead of identifying the largest of these three rivers as a continuation of the Missouri River, Lewis & Clark decided to name it as a tributary, the Jefferson River. As a consequence, the Mississippi River is technically longer than the Missouri River today.
….Lewis, upon arriving at the Three Forks of the Missouri, decided…
…….“beleiving this to be an essential point in the geography of this western part of the Continent I determined to remain at all events untill I obtained the necessary data for fixing it’s latitude Longitude.”
….Sacajawea would eventually reunite with her Lemhi Shoshone in a tearful, affecting reunion, meeting her brother now a chief, and another female abductee who had previously escaped and returned west. Sacajawea and the Shoshone’s help were crucial in making the Corp of Discovery’s expedition a success.
….Today the Three Forks of the Missouri Region, is part of Missouri Headwaters State Park in Montana. The Gallatin River of course would give the name to Gallatin County that the Three Forks of the Missouri is located in. Sacajawea is honored with a statue on Main Street in the small town of Three Forks, MT. Pirsig fans may appreciate that Lewis & Clark named a tributary of the Jefferson River, now known as Willow Creek, "Philosophy River”.
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