I saw a movie recently on Tv that had that situation and I don't see where it was possible to travel that far with a river boat. I realize it was just a movie but my curiousity got the best of me.
2006-06-25 18:09:43 · 4 answers · asked by Lisa P 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
all three answers are right; if you mean a river boat as in a steam powered stern wheeler, no; you still today cant get a boat from the Mississippi system to the Columbia without taking it overland...google "Lewis and Clark" to see if they portaged their boats...I think they had to abandon them across the Continental Divide, built a boat on the Columbia and came back to their eastern boats later, but I'm not 100% sure on that......
2006-06-30 04:22:39 · answer #1 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, it was done by the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803. The started in St. Louis and traveled up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers as far as they could and then portaged their boats (carried them overland) until a westward flowing river carried them the rest of the way to the Pacific.
2006-06-25 23:56:34 · answer #2 · answered by Ken W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are on different sides of the continental divide.
mississippi runs south and columbia runs west. so answer is NO
2006-06-25 18:24:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the rivers do not connect. a major obstacle in between them---the rocky mountains.
2006-06-25 18:14:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋