Missouri River

This digital picture was taken standing 10 feet to the left of the what's left of the original wharf at Fort Benton, Montana. Until the Canadian Pacific Railway showed up in Calgary, in 1883, amost all consumer goods were paddlewheeled up the Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers to Fort Benton. There the  goods would be loaded onto ox-trains and trailed into adjoining states, and Alberta, Southern B.C., and Saskatchewan in Canada. Once the Railway showed up in Canadian West - the flow of goods went in reverse. Goods being moved up river couldn't compete with the shear volume (and therefore lower prices) that the railways could transport to the newly opened northwestern territories of North America.

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