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For more information contact:
Lewistown Field Office
P.O. Box 1160
920 Northeast Main
Lewistown, MT 59457
406-538-1900 Fort Benton
River Management Station
P.O. Box 1389
Fort Benton, MT 59442
(406) 622-4000
Toll Free: (877) 256-3252
Photo Gallery
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UPPER MISSOURI NATIONAL WILD &
SCENIC RIVER |
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As a route of western expansion the Missouri River
has few equals. Lewis and Clark spent three weeks, from May 24
through June 13, 1805, exploring the segment that is now the Upper
Missouri National Wild & Scenic River. Today this portion
is considered to be the premier component of the Lewis and Clark
National Historic Trail.
Lewis writes, May 25, 1805:
"the air of this quarter is pure and helthy.
the water of the Missouri will tasted not quite so muddy as it is
below"
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May 31, 1805:
" as we passed on it seemed as if those seens of
visionary inchantment would never have an end; for here it is too that
nature presents to the view of the traveler vast ranges of walls of
tolerable workmanship, so perfect indeed are those walls that I should
have thought that nature had attempted here to rival the human art of
masonry had I not recollected that she had first began her work".
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