In the mid-1890s, a Civil War Veteran, surveyor and historian known as Jacob V. Brower set out to find the true most distant source of the Missouri.  Convinced it was not the spring Lewis had found as his party was ascending Lemhi Pass on 12 August 1805, Brower and his companions followed source streams of the Jefferson River, the Beaverhead and Red Rock rivers and discovered another spring more than 100 miles from the one Lewis noted.  Today this spring is know as Brower’s Spring and it is recognized as being the most distant source of the Missouri.

This article describes how one Lewis & Clark enthusiast from Cherokee, Iowa, visited Brower’s Spring and then hand delivered some of it’s water to the Mississippi.  Also posted in Region 4.

The article is posted via a link to our Chapter’s website.  Clicking on this link should take you directly to the newsletter containing the article.  Once there, you will need to scroll down to page 5 to view the article.

Missouri’s Most Distanct Source Hand Delivered to the Mississippi