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This
section of the Teton River, west of the confluence with the Marias
River, can be reached from a road just west of Loma. The view is up
river toward the west. While exploring the Missouri River, Captain
Clark walked a high ridge between it and the Teton River, which he
called the "Tansy."
When he finally determined that he was on the Missouri, he bivouacked
on the Teton/Tansy, west of Fort Benton MT.
When he and his team returned to the Marias camp, they followed the
Teton River, exclaiming on the bottomlands' proliferation and variety
of plants and trees: "we Set out early & travaled down the
little river which was imedeately in our Course...the bottoms of this
little river is in everry respect
except in extent like the large bottoms of the Missouri below
the forks containing a great propotion of a kind of Cotton wood with
a leaf resembling a wild Cherry -. I also observed
wind [wild] Tenzey on this little river in great quantities..." |
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