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The clear, shallow Missouri River below rugged rock outcrops and scattered pines, 2025

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Expedition place · July 18, 1806

Missouri River near present-day Cascade

1 journal entry · Recorded by John Ordway

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Missouri River · Cascade, MT · 2,680 panoramas on this trail Nearest capture is 1.3 mi from the tagged location.

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The journal entries written here

July 1806

Jul 18 Lewis: up Marias River / Clark: down Yellowstone — John Ordway: July 18, 1806 John Ordway “as usal and proceeded on down the gentle current Saw large gangues of buffaloe out in the plains about noon Collins killed…”

Nights the Corps camped here

Jul 16, 1805 left shore Missouri River at Pine Island Rapids, MT (Lewis’s party) Entries for Jul 16, 1805
Jul 17, 1805 left shore Missouri River, 2 mi NE Dearborn River mouth, MT Entries for Jul 17, 1805

NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino; Harlan where he is the only source). Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.

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