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Marias

River in northwestern Montana, USA; length 340 km/210 mi. It flows east in several headstreams from the Rocky Mountains, near the Canadian border, and joins the Missouri River northeast of Fort Benton.

Course

The Marias flows through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and past Cut Bank, then through Lake Elwell, formed by the 1956 Tiber Dam (a Missouri River Basin Project unit), and southeast to the Missouri.

History

In 1804 the Lewis and Clark expedition explored the Marias as possibly the mainstream of the Missouri, but turned back. Later in the 19th century, the Marias Pass was discovered near its head; at 1,590 m/5,215 ft, the pass would have provided the route (although seasonal) through the Rockies for which they were looking.



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