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Gold of Ophir 
n this photo of the lower Marias River, taken by Jim Wark in July of 1999, the water looks relatively clear, especially in the shallows around the sandbars. During the first week in June, 1805, however, this was the river that challenged the Corps' "cogitating faculties" because, as Lewis conceded, it apparently gave to the Missouri "the colouring matter and character which is retained from hence to the gulph of Mexico." Indeed, he reassured himself that it had "every appearance of the Missouri below except as to size." In other words, it was muddy then. And it's still brownish today above the reservoir, Lake Elwell, before the silt settles out behind Tiber Dam.
From Discovering
Lewis & Clark ®, http://www.lewis-clark.org
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© 2009 by The Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, Washburn, North Dakota.
Journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton
13 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001)
© 2009 by The Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, Washburn, North Dakota.
Journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton
13 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001)