Where Lewis and Clark Passed Through (near Headwaters State Park, Montana)

This is near Headwaters State Park, Where The Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson Rivers meet to form the Missouri River. When Lewis and Clark passed through here, they named these three rivers. According to their diary entry:
July 28, 1805:  "both Capt. Clark and myself corrisponded in opinion with rispect to the impropriety of calling either of these streams the Missouri and accordingly agreed to name them after the President of the United States and the Secretaries of the Treasury and state having previously named one river in honour of the Secretaries of War and Navy.  In pursuance of this resolution we called the S.W. fork, that which meant to ascend , Jefferson's River in honor of Thomas Jefferson.  the Middle fork we called Madison's River in honor of James Madison and the S.E. Fork we called Gallitin's River in honor of Albert Gallitin.  the first two are 90 yards wide and the last is 70 yards.  all of them with great valocity and thow out large bodies of water" Captain Lewis. (The rivers are not shown in this view - this is a view of the creek near land my great grandparents, who were dairy farmers, owned. The creek flows into the Gallatin River. I took this picture because I believe the land here has remained relatively untouched, looking much the same as when Lewis and Clark passed through. Native grasses, plants, shrubs and trees, and many animals, thrive here as they did back in the days of Lewis and Clark). P.S. - The nearest cliff is right in the main part of the park. I have several ancestors buried right there - one died as an infant, others died from Diptheria.
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