Still thinking
about Lewis and Clark. They were on a mission to find the fabled
Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean, starting with locating the headwaters
of the Missouri River. After months of travel, naming rivers as they go,
they came to a spot where the river split into three. It seems to me they
could have determined one of those rivers to be a continuation of the Missouri
and named the other two. Instead, they decided that the Headwaters of the
Missouri was the confluence of these three different rivers. What are the
chances they stood there at that aquatic intersection discussing their options
and said “I’m feeling a little tired of following the Missouri, how about
you? What do you say we just name all three as different rivers, declare
their confluence the headwaters, call it a day, and move on!”
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