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The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [6] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
Map of the Missouri River watershed The White River flowing into the Missouri River and coloring it with clay. Tributaries of the Missouri River, a major river in the central United States, are listed here in upstream order. These lists are arranged into river sections between cities or mouths of major tributaries for ease of navigation.
Only since 1859 had steamboats been traveling up the Missouri River to Fort Benton, Montana Territory. When gold was found at the Alder Gulch claim in Montana in 1863, streams of hopeful prospectors migrated to the area from other states, creating one of the most prosperous frontier cities, Virginia City. Within a year of the find, more than ...
Arrow Rock, Missouri; Augusta, Missouri; Atchison, Kansas; Bellevue, Nebraska; Bismarck, North Dakota; Black Eagle, Montana; Boonville, Missouri; Bridgeton, Missouri
Big Muddy Creek [2] is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 191 mi (307 km) long, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and the U.S. state of Montana.Its source is in the Big Muddy Badlands of Saskatchewan.
In 1863, John Bozeman and John Jacobs scouted for a direct route from Virginia City, Montana to central Wyoming to connect with the Oregon Trail, then the major passage to the West Coast. Before this, most access to the southwestern Montana Territory was from St. Louis via the Missouri River to Fort Benton.
US 12 east / MT 3 south / Nez Perce Trail – Billings: Northern end of US 12 concurrency; southern end of MT 3 concurrency: Judith Gap: 215.843: 347.366: S-279 south: Fergus: Eddies Corner: 237.274: 381.855: US 87 north / MT 3 north / MT 200 west / Lewis and Clark Trail – Great Falls: Northern end of MT 3; southern end of US 87/MT 200 ...
The Great Falls of the Missouri River are a series of waterfalls on the upper Missouri River in north-central Montana in the United States. From upstream to downstream, the five falls along a 10-mile (16 km) segment of the river [2] are: Black Eagle Falls (26 feet 5 inches or 8.05 meters) [2] Colter Falls (6 feet 7 inches or 2.01 meters) [2]