E'omita'i

The Musselshell River joins the Missouri amid the broken hills of central Montana. Cottonwoods grew along the Musselshell's bottomland, while the surrounding uplands bore short grass and scattered trees. In May 1805 Lewis and Clark's expedition worked its way upstream through this reach of the Missouri, struggling against the current and the snags in its winding channel before stopping at the mouth of the Musselshell.