Three Forks, MT.







 We left Eureka and headed south and a little east to the town of Three Forks. Beautiful drive light traffic.

Okay, test time! It’s named Three Forks for what/why and who came up with the names of the 3 and who are they named for?(answers later)

The pictures above are of the beautiful, old, gorgeous, luxurious Sacagawea Hotel.  Who was Sacagawea you ask! She was the Indian woman with baby Pomp who with her husband/interpreter/trapper Charbonneau who traveled with Lewis and Clark in their adventure west.

They traveled the Missouri River from St. Louis thru what is now Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Missouri. They reached the end of the Missouri River and found that it was confluence of three rivers. 

Answers!

Lewis and Clark named these 3 rivers the:

Jefferson after the President Thomas Jefferson

Gallatin after Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin

Madison after Secretary of State James Madison

We visited The Three Forks of the Missouri NHL and Three Forks of the Missouri State Park.


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