Tributary of the Madison River
(near Three Forks, Montana)
Saturday July 27th 1805.
"...we arrived at 9 A.M. at the junction of the S.E. fork of the Missouri and the country opens suddonly to extensive and beatifull plains and meadows which appear to be surrounded in every direction with distant and lofty mountains; supposing this to be the three forks of the Missouri I halted the party on the Lard. shore for breakfast and walked up the S.E. fork about 1/2 a mile and ascended the point of a high limestone clift from whence I commanded a most perfect view of the neighbouring country."
Meriwether Lewis
The above quote is taken directly from the Gary Moulton, University of Nebraska version of the Lewis and Clark Journals.
