The Missouri River defines the portion of Montana
where I live. All the streams and rivers
from all the mountains and valleys—including those from Bozeman to Helena to
Great Falls and two Canadian Provinces—run and kick their way into the
Missouri. After forming where the
Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin rivers converge, the Missouri river flows
north along the east slopes of the Rockies before gradually hooking east and
running laterally across the high plains of Montana and dropping toward the
Gulf of Mexico.
The Missouri River is the longest river in North
America. The navigable waters that
reached all the way from the Midwest to Fort Benton, Montana, provided a
valuable artery for goods as the United States expanded across the interior of
the West. The photograph of the stretch
of river I have posted here is about forty miles north of Helena near the town
of Cascade. Today, the water is world
renowned for fly-fishing.
Me? I just
think the river is pretty.
--Mitchell
Hegman
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